China🇨🇳Taking the last leg of the Trans-Mongolian Express

What is it that makes train travel so special for many people? I’ve never really felt that, but that’s probably because the sprinter from Heemstede-Aerdenhout to Leiden is a completely different experience than the Trans-Mongolian Express from Ulaanbaatar to Beijing. Just the sign on the outside “МОСКВА -- УЛААН-БААТАР -- БЗЗЖИН” makes the whole journey epic. Now, I have to admit that I felt like a bit of a cheater. Among people who were traveling the entire route from Moscow to Beijing, I was the one who joined just before the finish line and joined the exhausted group for the final leg.

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