After our two week hitchhiking from Kanding to Kashgar through the not most crowded areas China, but this is even more beautiful, we go back home on the train. It is true there our trip and tests are not finished. In anticipation of the Chinese New Year in the country always collapses the whole transport system is not able to cope with the passengers.
It's a time when most Chinese either return home to their families or go on vacation, and it's the largest annual mammalian migration on Earth. During the 40-day holiday period — which is called Spring Festival in Chinese — 3.6 billion passenger trips will be made across all modes of transportation.
Impossible to get tickets for a week, but since we did not want to wait, and there was no sense in it, we like many Chinese went home with so-called "standing" seats. In total 72 hours from Kashgar to Chongqing.
In the first part of the way to Urumqi we were lucky. We took our seats for luggage and held out for third of the way there.
Stairs - a great place to stay.
But the remaining 48 hours to Chongqing luck was against us. We took out their folding chairs and joined the passengers occupying a considerable part of any free space on the train. At about 100 sitting places in the carriage had about 40-50 people standing in the aisles and tambours.
Each killing time as he can.
Many people spend long time in the tambours.
People are everywhere.
We read books.
Children have fun.
Local kindergarten in the carriage (homemade paddock for children).
Not only we read books.
Sleep - certainly better means of killing time. However, when you're in the aisle - you always someone kicks.
Who has not provided folding chairs - sitting on luggage. Very popular banks of a paint. Can be folded inside the food and sit on it.
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