Train from UB to Beijing was a 1 day 1 night  affair with a not too painful 5 hour border crossing in to China. I was sharing with a farther and daughter who were travelling to buy rubber and zips for there army book company and a man with boxes full of sample plastic bottles. On day one we passed through the Gobi desert and awoke the following day to more hilly landscape of northern china (a little late to see the wall).

We pulled into Beijing just after lunch, after checking in a had walk around town and went to buy my next train ticket. It was a pleasant 20 degrees c and I had a great walk around the busy Market streets where my hostel was located and around the eminence and sanitized T square. First impressions were good and I immediately felt at home. Had a brilliant night out with a load of people from the hosts on the first night, and had a good chilled out day in the hostel the following day. I am now in Shanghai for a few days before I head out into the country side and then back to Beijing