K3 train basic information
Train overview
Operator: K3 is operated by China
Operating time: departs from Beijing station at 11:22 on Wednesdays, via Mongolia, and arrives at Moscow's YaroslavskyRailwayStation at 13:58 on Mondays. How to buy tickets: buy Beijing-Erlian and Erlian=Moscow separately, which is perfectly feasible.
If you want to go to Ulan Bator for a few days and then travel to Russia you can choose the Beijing=Ulan Bator K23, which has been inaugurated with new compartments, the level of the current domestic direct Z trains, and of course the conditions inside the train are much better than the K3.
Train sockets
The K3 train uses European standard sockets, and the voltage in the high bag is 220V, while the hard sleeper compartment is labeled only 46V, although the voltage labeled inside the hard sleeper is much lower than the 100-220V of the current plug, but in addition to Apple's original plug can not be charged other than the other plug can be used normally.
Train bathroom
There is only one bathroom in each hard sleeper car, in fact, there is a washroom except for the conductors to wash their own dishes usually do not open, the bathroom space is large enough, so if you need to take a shower is not no place......
K3 International Train Tickets
The booking form says the seat 19__ year ......
Ticket office
The ticket office in Beijing is in the passage to the left of the lobby on the first floor of the Beijing International Hotel.
International trains can be booked up to 45 days in advance.
Reservations require a deposit of 100 yuan each, and passport numbers are not required for reservations.
After booking, you have to pay the full amount and provide your passport number on the date requested on the receipt (7 or 8 days before the train leaves). The company's website has been updated with the latest information about the company's website, which is available on the Internet.
To inquire, you can call the Beijing ticket office on 01065120507 or follow the Sina microblogging site @CITS Rail Link to keep an eye on the latest news.
K3 international train fares
The following is the CITS ticket office fares and timetable information:
K3 international train timetable information
Train timetable
Train timetable, pay attention to the time of the train in Russia are based on the time of the standard of the Moscow time instead of the time of the local time zone, the daytime in Irkutsk on the third day, 5 hours faster than Moscow time, to pay attention to the time of the train in Russia. The daytime in Irkutsk on the third day was five hours faster than Moscow time, according to the timetable +5; Novosibirsk +4; Yekaterinburg +3.
Mobile phones will automatically change to the local time as long as there is an Internet connection, and in the world clock set a Moscow time, the two against each other to see a more intuitive.
Every train station in Russia has a screen that rotates the time (Moscow time, temperature, and a number ending in P. I don't know what that means.
Visa
Russian visa
**At the same time, special reminder of the time of entry, K3 in Naushki station, that is, according to the timetable of the next day at night, entry into Russia, so the effective time of the visa must be in the same day or before, we have a traveler on the train due to the misunderstanding that the entry to Moscow is the result of the visa is not yet in effect in entry to be repatriated. The first thing you need to do is to get a visa.
Mongolian visa
Mongolian transit visa can be obtained after the Russian visa, in the online business, in fact, as long as three working days on the approval. The Mongolian visa is valid for three months on the day it is issued and is valid for a maximum stay of ten days.
K3 International Train Communications
I was roaming on the train from Beijing to Moscow the whole time, I got off the train and bought a megafone card, 950 rubles 16GB of traffic plus 20GB of YouTube traffic, and at the same time, Facebook, Instagram free traffic also with 1200 minutes of domestic calls. Now roaming has been very affordable, especially China Mobile One Belt One Road roaming package, but roaming has a problem is that the domestic need to turn over the wall roaming as much as the need to turn over the wall, the main thing is that Google Maps roaming can not be used, so Mongolia need to roam for a day, as far as the Russian Federation is still the best beforehand to buy a good sim card on the Internet.
Since roaming can freely switch between local operators, all the way down the situation to see Mongolia's signal is the best UNITEL, Russia MTS (MTC) in Siberia signal coverage is the best, if you want to buy a Russian sim card in a certain treasure recommended to first consider MTS (MTC, good is also just relative to the K3 along the line all the way down the train near the town when there is a 3G, the rest of the time the vast majority of time is a 2G network. The vast majority of the time is 2G network, 4G only in a few big cities, watching drama and so on or to realize are cached well.
K3 train compartments
K3 is still using very old German carriages, but the maintenance is relatively good and quite neat. I was looking forward to entering the carriage and soon realized that there is no air-conditioning in the hard sleeper compartment! There is only a small fan, and this year's summer in North China was unusually hot, with a temperature of 36 degrees that day, and the inside of the room was quite hot.
The K3 train arrives at the station
Beijing Station
Ticket checking starts half an hour early, and the first thing everyone does is of course to gather around in front of the Beijing=Ulanbaatar=Moscow license plate for a group photo first, and some of the compartments have Beijing=Erlian hanging on them, and these are unloaded at Erlianhot.
Erlianhot
Arrival: The train arrived in Erlianhot just after 9 p.m., on time, with the "Athletes' March" playing at the station as we entered.
What to do at the station: The train has a long journey time in Erlianhot, and after arriving at the station the carriages are hauled away, one by one, to the garage to change the wheels.
1 Those who want to watch the change of wheels can just stay in the car, but few want to do so, as the car is really hot on that day.
2 do not look at the wheel change travelers get off can go out of the station free activities, Erlianhot is very small, ten o'clock at night in Erlianhot is more quiet,
3 leave the train station to the far side of the walk, in addition to the train station across the street from the kiosk store is not still open store, in addition to replenishment of food and drink, but also can be exchanged for some of the mongolian map, the exchange rate remembered to be 1:340 is also possible.
If the next day you want to go to the dining car to eat or get off to buy things before going to Ulaanbaatar, it is best to exchange good here, in Mongolia dining car with RMB consumption is very loss. There were also square dancers in the front square, and everyone either rested in the front square or in the waiting hall.
According to the expected time of 0:20 train should be completed to change the wheel, but until a little more than the train appeared on the platform, and then it is waiting for the customs to focus on the collection of passports to return to the night Erlianhot only this train, do not understand why the border inspection stamping speed is so slow.
Nearly three o'clock in the morning, really sleepy can not stand to go back to sleep in the room, the results did not twenty minutes, the border control officers began to get on the car to send passports, passports must be personally sent to the hands of each person, all were called up. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get a good deal on the way to the next level, but I'm sure you're going to be able to get a good deal on the way to the next level," he said.
Zamyn-Uud
Arrival time: Because of the three-hour delay, arrived in Zamyn-Uud has been four o'clock in the morning, the sky has been rising fish-belly white,
Arrived at the station to do what: Mongolian border control personnel on board the checking receipt of passports, passports soon returned to the back of the efficiency is very high. In addition, if you do not have a Mongolian visa seems to be at the border can be re-done, there is a person on the car did not do a Mongolian visa but get off the re-do, but did not hear any clear rules that can be done this way or do not try.
Ulaanbaatar
I really didn't expect Ulanbaatar to have such a cityscape, Ferris wheels and skyscrapers rising up in the grasslands, under the turquoise blue sky, neat as new, but the new city still occupies a very small area, and the rest of the city is still a low-rise apartment buildings lined up.
What to do when you arrive at the station: the train stops in Ulan Bator, the train station is open and can be freely accessed, the main building of the train station inside the exchange of foreign currency, there is a line of delis and kiosks, because the train is seriously late, when we got off the train, asked the stewardess suggested that we come back within 20 minutes, because the train may leave early at any time, so it just quickly changed 100 yuan, in the
Naushki
Arrival time: The train arrived at the Russian border at the Naushki train station at 1 a.m. on the third day, and was still delayed by more than an hour in Mongolia after a long day of rushing.
What to do at the station: Russia's border inspection is far more stringent than Mongolia's, Mongolia on the border just simply look at the two eyes to take a form, Russia also want to open the box to check, but also a very cute working dog, a very small dog, fluffy looks like an ordinary pet dog, but but bear the task of guarding the border, it is really a dog can not be looked like ......
Note: and China and Mongolia are not the same, the Russian customs have portable instruments, border control officers directly in the car for passport control and stamping, before entering the train will be issued on the immigration card, the immigration card is divided into two halves, respectively, "arrived" and "departure "Need to fill in the information are the same, and other countries need to fill in the immigration card, the same as the entry of the border control to take away half of the arrival, the other half do not put the other half of the folder in the passport until the exit time to take away the exit card is required to register in the hotel and the visa to be presented together.
Scenery: the train began to drive on the shores of Lake Baikal, but completely close to the lake is not long, the lake water is crystal clear, but the camera does not exclude this effect on a speeding train, but also to experience it with their own eyes to be able to do so.
Malinsk
Arrival time: noon, Malinsk station, Russia, although more beautiful women, but the older women are generally fatter dining car waitress is also a fat aunt, a small cart variety but all the five organs.
Barabinsk
Arrival time: already more than eleven o'clock in the evening local time, but the sun's afterglow is still in,
Arrived to do what: still off the train to buy food
Perum
Belm (Belmih train station, the vast majority of Russian train stations do not have a footbridge or underpasses, the body of the station between the direct across the railroad tracks.
Belm (Perm) Krai, the view along the way, close to the city of Perm on the river side of a few exquisitely renovated dachas are very conspicuous.
While just passing through Perm, but feel that Perm is a city with cultural deposits, many Soviet buildings and monuments neatly and orderly arranged in the street. Perm is also the only one in the train station kiosk selling local souvenirs, all souvenirs and bear-related, but specific from the Internet search but accounted for no further introduction.
Yaroslavl Railway Station
The train will make a few more stops before arriving in Moscow, and today I don't have to think about jet lag. The train arrived at the Yaroslavl Railway Station at 13:58 on time, and it was a puddle of concrete. Pulling a suitcase makes a clicking sound, the platform is open-air and open, directly out of the station, *** YaroslavskyRailwayStation Комсомольская the white building just out of the door of the battle, you can take the subway line 1 and 5. Another building next to it is the Leningrad Railway Station, which stops trains in the direction of St. Petersburg.
K3 international train meals
Domestic section
The train started, the stewardess began to send covers and domestic lunch and dinner meal coupons, simply cleaned up a little bit to run to the dining car to eat, just in time for the peak of the meal, the dining car has long been full of people, had to be packed and brought back to the room to eat, the quality of the free meal of course can be imagined, but there are two meatballs! I'm still very relieved, by the end of the night there is only celery fried minced pork and shredded seaweed left. The scenery along the way wasn't bad, but it was too hot to enjoy it, so I slept off and on all afternoon.
Mongolian section
Noon came to the Mongolian dining car car carving and decoration is very unique.
The price of RMB 50-60 is acceptable, and I would have liked to point to the upper right corner of the 9,000 mongolian figure, but there is no ...... Only the most expensive ones.
At eleven o'clock, we arrived at the dining car to order food, however, the dining car staff slowly and leisurely, waiting for two hours to come up, the portion is also very small. The Mongolian food trucks can use the Montu ruble in dollars, or RMB, but the RMB exchange rate is extremely poor, about one-third higher, so it is still recommended to change some Montu in Erlianhot.
Russian section
Russian dining car menu Russian-English contrast but no pictures, while only with rubles checkout, so it is best to change a million or two in the country is better to facilitate some. The price of the food truck is acceptable and the presentation is very serious.
Baked pork chop (Pork, bakedwithcheese450 rubles, smells very fragrant to eat is also very fragrant, but the chicken should be frozen for a long time and so on, very loose
Baked wing tip (Wingsofchickensacute450 rubles
Fried turkey ( Turkeywithvegetables450 rubles
"Greek" salad (Salad "The Greek" 200 rubles very sour, very sour, very sour.
Lamb soup (souplamb 300 rubles, very heavy stinky lamb not many pieces.
Borscht (borscht300 rubles, borscht would have been especially like to drink, Russian borscht is added cheese but still delicious.
Vegetable broth (Solyankameat400 rubles, very salty
Pancakes remember as if 160 rubles, and other rice and vegetables (white rice sprinkled with a little bit of vegetables on top of the snacks and so on, there is a side of slices of bread 10 rubles a piece.