Gobi, Mongolia
Gobi Desert
We continued our journey through Mongolia down to the Gobi desert near a town called Sainshand. Our guide knew the train conductor and a lot of the staff so managed to get us a cabin to ourselves on the train. The landscape slowly changed as the train headed south turning from lush rolling green hills to dry flat desert plains. On the way the only real stop was at the small town of Choir which was once the biggest soviet air base in Mongolia but...