

The best social life is always found in hard seat. A game of elephant chess (xiangqi) passes the time for muslims planning to get off in Qinghai and three Tibetan kids get probably their first view of a camera-curious Westener.


Train conductresses and inspector ladies make sure you don't cause any problems and also get back on the train before it leaves without you. For those not fortunate enough to get a seat in hard seat a newspaper and mobile phone will help to pass time.


For those who didn't want to eat in the restaurant car there were numerous trollies that came several times a day with food boxes, cut fruit, beer, drinks and snacks. When we reached higher altitudes all our sealed packages expanded and threatened to explode! But otherwise no leaky pens or any other damage or problems with computers or harddrives. ©Ingrid Booz Morejohn


Nice new bathrooms but Day 2 the garbage started to pile up. ©Ingrid Booz Morejohn