After much discussion with other travellers we decided that rather than get the (rather expensive) Trans Mongolian train to Ulaanbaatar we would do what the Mongolians do and get a local train up to the border, get the shuttle bus across the border, then get another local train to UB on the Mongolian side.
So we got the sleeper train to Erlian which is the border town and found ourselves a hotel room (no mean feat when no one in this town speaks English, all signs are in Chinese only and we speak no Chinese). All fine so far...
Unfortunately, we awoke this morning to discover that today is a national holiday in china and the border is closed!! There are no mini buses crossing the border for the next 3 days and the only way to get across is to get a ticket tomorrow morning for the train that goes across the border tomorrow night! Bugger!
However, we did meet up with Kenneth, a Swedish guy who was at the Leo hostel with us in Beijing. He is travelling over with a Mongolian girl whose family own a guesthouse in UB. So we have all ganged together to try to overcome our tiny little border problem.
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