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Published: February 18th 2009
well done! you made it past part one and onto part two, which in my opinion is much more interesting.
The trans-mongolian train from beijing to ulaanbaatar was scheduled to take 30 hours, and our coach was decorated in a very train-y way as alice put it - all orangey carpets and wood panelling. we had 2 carriage attendants who didn't seem overly impressed with us, a coal powered water heater whi...
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Paul
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Hi you four. As far as I can tell, which is not from looking at the picture as they are much too far away but from accessing the www, the deer you saw from the train were possibly Mongolian gazelle that are the largest ungulate population in central asia. The bactrian camel is the only wild camel, there are no wild arabian camels only those that have gone feral of which there are quite a number in Australia, believe it or not! The bactrian camel is very rare in the wild so do not expect to see any, I guess the one Alice saw, like the one the rest of you saw, was a domesticated one. Things on the bear front in China are not very pleasant. Bear bile is a much sort after and wholely inaffective Chinese medicine. The bears have a tube surgically inserted in their bile duct and are kept in small cages so the bile can be harvested on a regular basis, very nasty. Mongolia is one of those many countries I have not visited that I would very much like to, I am very jealous! Love Paul (not Mr Vodden, please!!)