IF you're just dying to know what a 36 hour train ride through central China is like -and I know you are- grab a pillow

and lay down next to this slide show for the day and a half. If you want to make it even more realistic, try speaking broken Chinese to imaginary people (it doesn't matter if they aren't there, they wouldn't understand if they were), eat only strange box-bowls of spicy instant noodles, and when using the bathroom squat over the toilet.