After doing a bit of research, I have decided that it might be worth doing more of the North West, on the Silk Road route.
So, we will be visiting the one province I hadnt included in our plans, Xinjiang.
There is a 20 hour sleeper train that goes from Lanzhou to Urumqi (fact: the furthest city from the ocean in the world) which also stops in Turpan.
And after adding Xinjiang,
I thought, seeing as we are passing so close by, why not venture into Mongola?
So with that I decided to add a whole new country to our trip!!!
These two detours should only add a few weeks to our trip.
And it may mean that we dont bother travelling up to Har'bin, which I was uming and ahhing about anyway.
But we'll see!
