Day 13, 14 - 10th - 11th September - Trans Mongolian Express to Ulaanbaatar
September 7th 2010 Trans Mongolian Express to Ulaanbaatar
Boarded the train for Ulaanbaatar, which had Mongolian staff working on board. The train was the oldest yet, but the windows opened fully in each cabin, which made a nice change. The forth person in our cabin was Jean - a very chatty French man who was doing the Trans Mongolian trip from St Petersburg to Beijing in 3 weeks with very few stops. Also on boar
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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more 
