We have finally decided to stop braving the cold weather and jump on a train heading South for the Winter!
It is another sleeper train that takes us to the very Southern part of China where we start to leave Mandarin behind for more Cantonese.
We get beds in what is known as "hard sleeper" class. The class above that is "soft sleeper". Below it are the classes of soft seats, hard seats, or no seats.
The constant spitting and shouting of our 60 carriage mates makes any kind of sleeping a rarity.
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- all kinds of everything are sold on the train
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- as we head south the farming gets more lush and we can see geese
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- early morning sun
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- hard sleeper class so called because it is hard to sleep
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- our xian rice snaps crackles and pops but is ruined by what we later find out to be lime flavoured milk
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It’s so great to see your regular updates!!!! We also got your postcard from Mongolia today!!!!!
Enjoy your journey – even the hard to sleep and impossible to sleep ones,….sx
Such an adventure. Love the pictures! I think you should use your birthday money to upgrade every train/bus ride to a better class of sleeper.