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Saturday 2004-07-03 - Daheyan, Xinjiang (China)
Honoured guests
On arrival at the station in Daheyan we’re waved into the “Lounge for Honoured Guests” — normally reserved only for people with soft-sleeper tickets (which is not us): apparently as foreigners here we’re considered “honoured guests” as well. There’s one disadvantage to that: we have to climb six thickly-carpeted stairways with all our luggage (not so good for my foot) but there are advantages, too: nice big, soft chairs, we don’t have to put our luggage through the scanner (why not??), and we’re let onto the platform and train first so getting onto the train isn’t as hectic as usual.
