30 Hours on a Coal Train!

Hi everyone! We have made our way to Mongolia, a very strarnge place to say where you are in the world! We caught the Vodka Train at 6am in the morning to find our selves walking on a old crusty coal train! We didnt care though as we where on our way out of filfthy china and we are heading to russia! Wahhooligan! I was actually glad the train was a very slow train it meant i could take some amazing photos! Us 6 basically had the whole train to our selves we were the only crazy ones heading to a destenation that is -28. Amazing landscape on our travels, vast, desolate, dry, barron. Then all of a sudden you would see a teny tiny village 5 crumbling buildings max. Then you would see a ger in the distance. A hour later you would see some one on a horse with nothing around him. Wild horses, cows, sheep. Felt like we were in a cowboy movie!! It was awsome!! One of the best experiences! At night looking out the window you would see the sparks from the coal flying past your window! Boarding crossings....they are always so useless and slow takes them 5 hours to stamp our passport. We stoped once to exit china and get our wheels changed on the train as we were about to climb a mountain.jolt jolt jolt they are moving the carraige feels like we are at a dreamworld ride...then all of a sudden we are up in the air hanging. We are all wanting to sleep but we have been forced into dreamworld! Off we go with our new set of wheels and we stop again a few hours later to meet our first mongalian, we hit the boarder and get our passport stamped! We finally get some sleep and wake up to see the sunrise tgat went on forever. We walk down to the dinning cart and tge whole cart had changed into a mongolian wonderland. They must of changed carriages. We are slowly getting colder and colder, snow is starting to appear more and more! We hope out quickly on a few stops as they only stop for 10mins or less!! Frezzing! Our meals on the train where a challange, porridge, noodles, wetbix, coffee with all the grinds floating in our cups. Not sure how we will cope on our 3 day straight train ride with stodgey food! We arrived today at 1.30pm, we went to the mongalian musuem and then got indian for lunch/dinner. Apparently mongolian food is rich and fermented so our honcho said it wasnt the best for us! Tomorrow we are going to our ger camp for 2 nights! Not sure if it will be snowing as it is too cold and dry for snow! Ill try and out some photos up, internet is not very strong! Love you guys! Think of us while we are in -28 xxxx