Beijing to Moscow by train – ornate Mongolian restaurant car

The ornate Mongolian restaurant car 

on the Beijing to Moscow train

Although all of the accommodation carriages on the 'express' from Beijing to Moscow stayed on for the whole journey, the restaurant cars change every time you move from one country to another. We had three restaurant different restaurant cars – one in China, on in Mongolia and one in Russia. 

Although perhaps surprisingly we had the best food served in the Russian restaurant car, the Mongolian wiped the floor with the competition in terms of ornate decoration as these two pictures show. 

 Details of the decor in the 

Mongolian restaurant car

Horses in the Gobi Desert

China – walled in!

 The wall snakes over the mountains

If in Beijing for the first time a visit to the Great Wall is obligatory even though it took us hours to get there because of the traffic. Despite the time spent in jams the Great Wall is spectacular and worth the effort. Parts of the wall are very steep, so the soldiers must have kept very fit! It is also an amazing feat of engineering but a certainly deadly one with as many as 400,000 perishing during its construction.

JB and CRM @the Wall

 CRM iFoning the wall

CRM on the steepest part 

CRM ... nearly there 

Local man relaxing on the wall