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No bus? No train? Take car: Hohhot to Erlian

Posted on August 27, 2011 by strippedpixel / No comments

We arrived in Hohhot on the Beijing-Hohhot train on time, 20:30, enough time to buy a ticket for the Hohhot to Erlian train leaving at 21:38. But not only were there no tickets left that night, there was no train to Erlian at all. There was no bus to Erlian when I walked across to the bus station, they’d all left earlier in the day, and though I bought a ticket for the next morning’s train anyway to save having to go through the ordeal of queuing again, I still needed to get to Erlian faster than tomorrow’s train would get me there.

Beijing to Hohhot

Leaving Beijing for Hohhot at 09:19 would get me to Hohhot by 20:30. The train to Erlian left at 21:38. I had to hope there would be tickets left when I got to Hohhot station, or my crossing the border into Mongolia and getting to Ulaanbaatar on time was looking increasingly unlikely.