Train Ride

Since this trip to Ulaanbaatar was not planned (originally I was just making a 2-day visa run to the China-Mongolia border, only to find it closed once I got there and the only way across by train, at which point I would have had to sit and wait two days in the Mongolian border town for the border to open), and since I had to rush back to Beijing for work, most of the time I spent in Mongolia on my very brief first trip into the country was on a train. And to be honest, there's really not that much to see out the window of a Mongolian train, as it's the 19th largest country in the world with less than 4 million people (about 40% of which live in the capital) to fill up all that grassland space. So needless to say this gallery has very few pictures in it!