Today we start the travel that will/can/might bring us to Ulan Batar in Mongolia. We have spent months setting up these tickets, transferred money abroad.. 20 emails, so lets see how this will work out in the end.
The bullet train (speed just below 300 kmt) leaves from Beijing North railway station, and because of luggage we went with a taxi this time around.
Its a fairly nice station, with the bullet train gates at the ground floor. First thing we learned is that the security checking here is a bit more strickt than we where used to. So our supernice meatscissors from Korea is now in the property of a very nice girls in the security check… The scissors where 3-4 cm to long. Our bags are absolutely stuffed – 23-25 kg each (We actually bought a new suitcase some days ago, the old one was to small), so repacking and getting out the scissors was an absolute joy! 🙂
Our tickets are attached to our passport numbers, so we should now be golden. Hanging out at Gate 7 – for the 16:50 to Hohhot, where we probably/will/might get our international tickets to Mongolia… On either coach, second, first or some other option..we dont know 🙂
During the bag check, the guys ang girls at security actually had us check the wrong bag. I had to do mine first, but after they checked the machine – they found it was actually Marens bag that contained the fancy korean meat scissors. They was really sorry, and appologized several times – it was really not a big issue for us, and we congratulated the girl in security with a new meat scissor. Anyways, after sitting in the waiting hall fro 30 minutes, the same girl came walking towards us with a small bag. She felt so sorry for the hassle with the bag that she had gone and bought us two large -very very tasty- ice teas, that she brought us in a small cooler bag…. Really nice of her, and really not nessecary, but what a nice experience.