Next was our 2 day train ride to Beijing. I should have taken your advice and we should have left the train at Xining and flown the rest of the way. The next western tourist that insists on taking the train the whole way have them contact me and I will help you talk them out of it. The trip would have worked with a modern tourist train. As it was we were in a soft sleeper with two women and a small child. There was not enough room for the five of us and our luggage. Not very comfortable. There also was only one western toilet on the train and it was out of service at various times. Not very pleasant.