The Trans-Mongolian
As a teenager I read
The Big Red Train Ride
by the late
Eric Newby
and longed to emulate his epic journey across Russia by train. In 2005,
I spent 3 weeks travelling from Beijing to Moscow by train, stopping
off at Ulaanbaatar, Irkutsk and Lake Baikal. The train journey itself was 7622 kilometres long and
required spending around 140 hours on board trains.
There is a short, five minute
slideshow of 60 of my favourite images from the trip, from scorpion kebabs
in Beijing to sleeping in a Yurt on the Mongolian steppes, accompanied by a choice of 10 tracks of
Khöömii (sometimes transliterated as "huumii") or
Mongolian throat singing.
Coming soon ...Climbing Mount Fuji
