Readers' great railway journeys: crossing Mongolia - Telegraph: "Mongolia is of such epic proportions that it often seems that the curve of the planet is visible over the horizon. Occasionally there's a yurt or a cluster of yurts in the middle of corn farms spanning miles and miles. Horses — sometimes 50 of them — gallop alongside the train before changing direction and melting into the distance. At other times there’s just one, loaded down with a rider and some luggage. Sometimes the horses are in the form of the biggest chalk carvings you can imagine, etched out of the side of miles of rolling hills.
Sizzling hot plates in the shape of a cow are placed before us, and a small mountain of purple sugared cabbage accompanies it. We are in the Mongolian food car and it’s not a million miles away from a moving "
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Sizzling hot plates in the shape of a cow are placed before us, and a small mountain of purple sugared cabbage accompanies it. We are in the Mongolian food car and it’s not a million miles away from a moving "
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