Tongliao has also some bakeries with good rolls and cakes. A supermarket offers few western chocolate. The food in the small fandians is quite good and people very friendly everywhere. A nice town in Inner Mongolia. March I left Tongliao by Pas 713, which is only half-full.
Train is very clean, staff very friendly and service is very good.
The young railwaymen are highly motivated and it seems, as they are very proud of their railway and their job. I can confirm his observations about this line from Tongliao to Jingpeng. The landscape is sometimes fantastic and offers thousands of photo-possibilities. Sometimes hilly, with mountains in the background, wetland with horses, small villages. Double is 80 Y, rooms are good, but service is not so good anymore as the times before.