Thursday 30 June 2011

1 Day to get a train ticket...(Darkhan, Mongolia - 19-20/06)

Sunday, we ask for buying international ticket, but it is not the good
booth, we have to wait later for an other one to open. Later, this one is
open, we queue and the officer just says no and write some Mongolian on our
piece of paper (formulating our prepared request in Mongolian)...
Fortunately, we find somebody to translate: we cannot buy international
ticket today, we have to wait tomorrow, 8 o'clock...
Monday 8:30, We ask again for our tickets to the same lady with our prepared
note and she is offering another train that the one described in the note...
we show her in the paper what we want, she writes it again on the same paper
and show us....ok...
Next, we have to get some money, the ATM at the train station are empty and
it's the same in the city... we finally findone able to give us some
money!!
We come back at 9:30, the booth is closed and people are telling us to come
back at 14:00... But the opening hours are 8:00-12:00 and some people are
waiting in front of the closed booth... then we waited...
Finally, the same lady opens the booth again and we are ready this time!!!
She just switches on an other computer which was in the same place yesterday
and processes our request: the tickets are ready 45 minutes later with
mistakes in the passport number!!! Fortunately, in 5 minutes she printed a
new version we corrected ourselves (she could not read our alphabet..).

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