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Each night, the Qinghai-Tibet train leaves Beijing at 9:30. A mere 48 hours later, it rolls into Lhasa, 2,525 miles away. Grist thanks its sponsors. Become one. To support our nonprofit ...
For the first time, relatively isolated Tibet is accessible to the Chinese masses, even if you have to briefly don an oxygen mask to get to the lan ...
TRAVEL TIBET TRAIN -- Logo on Beijing-Lhasa train. Ran on: 11-05-2006 The first train from Lhasa Railway Station travels across grasslands near the Tibetan capital on July 1.
LHASA, China, July 3 -- -- LHASA, China, July 3 -- After rolling under snow-covered peaks and crossing 2,500 miles, the first train ever to travel from Beijing to Tibet pulled into a station here ...
ABOARD THE BEIJING-LHASA EXPRESS - Chugging past shaggy yaks and fluffy clouds that look low enough to lasso, the train from Beijing to Lhasa makes its final climb into nosebleed territory pulled ...
Dubbed a "miracle" of engineering, the so-called Sky Train climbs to an elevation of 5,702m at the "roof of the world". The Qinghai-Tibet railway stretched before us right across the Himalayan ...
The only bullet train operating in Tibet at the railway station in Nyingchi, the final stop on the service originating from Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. Steven Jiang/CNN.
Back in March, my travel buddies and I set off for a holiday to one of the highest cities in the world – Lhasa, Tibet. To enable us to acclimatise to the high altitude, we decided to take the 34 ...
The only bullet train operating in Tibet at the railway station in Nyingchi, the final stop on the service originating from Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. Steven Jiang/CNN.
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