From Russia to India (part III: Travel Notes from free country China)

"Source of Irtish river in China"

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Travel story: From Russia to India (part III: Travel Notes from free country China)

I left Almaty on June 11 and went by train and taxi to the town of Zaisan near Chinese border. After bad experience with miserable neighbors on my Trans Siberian route two years ago, I prefer platskart to kupe (open compartment versus closed compartment) in Russian trains.

However conductors allows so many passengers to travel without tickets, that train car had twice as many people than it supposed to have. These un-ticketed passengers were everywhere. Surprisingly nobody... More