by Elizabeth
One of the challenges of long-term travel is getting visas while abroad. In order to complete our journey along the Trans Siberian Railway, we needed a visa to enter China. Ideally, we would have applied for our Chinese visa in the US. However, I had heard that the Chinese consulates in the US won’t issue tourist visas nine months out (before we left on our trip) and we didn’t have enough time during our stop in New York to apply for both Russian and Chinese visas. I didn’t this that this would be a big issue because I’d read a bunch of reports of people easily getting their Chinese visas in Ulaanbaatar (“UB”), Mongolia. Problem solved. Or so we thought…
Waiting outside the Chinese embassy in Ulaanbaatar.
two backpacks, no plan 