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Qinghai - Tibet Railway
October 20, 2006
My love affair with the mountains continues with a recent trip to The Roof Of The World - Tibet. Our journey to Lhasa was a 29 1/2 hours train ride from Lanzhou on the Qinghai-Tibet (Qingzang) Railway.
This is the first railway connecting the Tibet Autonomous Region with the rest of China. Since the launching of this altiplano railway on 1st July 2006, it has aroused much of the world's attention and it had certainly caught ours to try this novelty ride out. This railway is certainly something to rave about - from being the world's highest and longest plateau railroad to being an engineering marvel with technological breakthroughs in the railway construction since almost half of the total track was being built on permafrost (frozen soil).
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The Train Trip to Tibet - Qinghai-Tibet Railway
Not only was it still dark when we left the hostel at 0700 it was also raining very lightly. Luckily the bus was there within 5 minutes just as Judy had said it would be and we were at the railway station within 10 minutes.
The atmosphere at the station was mind-boggling. In the dim light all you could see were thousands of people in the square, either waiting for arrivals or on their way out. We firstly went to one of the shops where we had bought dumplings on the way in, getting 16 delicious ones for breakfast. Food is certainly good and cheap here.
The train was running late so we spent the next 45 minutes in a crowded waiting room. It was interesting to see that even though everyone had an allocated seat the locals rush towards the door wanting to be first through.
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