Jumping in Sainshand

And back on the Trans-Mongolian, this time in the direction of China!

The picture below was taken at one of the few Mongolian stops, in Sainshand (Сайншанд), in front of our locomotive.

In Sainshand, we stopped long enough to buy some water, as well as some dehydrated Korean spicy noodles (just add some boiling water, and they're ready). Quite good... when you're hungry!

Korea and Mongolia seem to get along quite well. We saw an impressive number of Korean shops in Ulaanbaatar. Maybe it's because both countries are surrounded by large and powerful nations, so they feel it's easier to deal with countries their own size? Just a thought though, I'm no expert in Korea-Mongol politics :)