
Rubén and Cristina took a long train ride — 7,500 kilometers from Beijing to Ulan Bator to Moscow — over a period of three weeks and this is the film they made, all shot with the Canon 7D and a single lens. It’s tilt-shifty, lush, and warm. Although the two spent about two-thirds of their time exploring the countryside, “Transmongolian” stays on the train, and though you might think that would get claustrophobic, it doesn’t. Rather, it reminds you how big the world still is, how different it is, and how romantic rail travel can be.
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Train travel, overland across the steppe. There’s nothing like it, especially for a young anthropology student en route to doing field work in Mongolia for the first time. Thanks so much for sharing that post, and reminding me of what it was like to take that amazing journey.
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Very nicely done… evocative! My wife and I rode the exact same route back in 1998 in January. Twas a bit colder (-42 in Irkutsk!) though. Brought back many memories.