(1) Train to Tibet

I traveled to Lhasa on the high altitude train to Tibet in June of 2007 with a small tour group of fellow Americans. This video features the train ride from Xining in western China through the mountain pass leading to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The Chinese engineering achievements which made this train happen are formidable; the social changes the train brings to Tibet are no less so.

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Travel & Events

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• Tibet
• High-Altitude
• Train
• to
• Lhasa
• Xining

[Wizenedcompass]

I took a rather expensive tour package the first year after the line opened. Good tour with excellent guides, but as a foreigner I paid more. I read a newspaper article which suggested if you bought a ticket from Beijing the train ticket would be around $50. (I can't confirm this is true.) Still, the ticket from inside China is sure to be cheaper. The catch is you need an internal visa to visit Tibet and you'd need to go through a Chinese consul for that.

Tours are easier, despite drawbacks.

[youtrack66]

Thanks for posting the video. I enjoy it. Never been to Tibet before and on a train at that. I am 70 yrs old and asthmatic. Any one knows any health risk going high altitude? Thanks again.

[Wizenedcompass]

@youtrack66  Glad you liked it! Your age isn't a big problem. Our Tibetan guide told us young people are more likely than seniors to come down with altitude sickness, and the youngest member of our small group did get sick for all 4 days we were in Tibet. Your asthma may be a more serious concern: I'd recommend talking to your doctor, or practicing going to a higher elevation here in the States first to see how you react. Lhasa is about 12000 feet elevation, and we went as high as 15000 feet.

[sasalove2a1]

Very Nice Video!

[Wizenedcompass]

@sasalove2a1 Thanks, I'm glad you liked it.

[sdoron79]

how much does the train ticket cost?

[iraqidolphin]

So very exciting !!

[kaiwkc]

i like your map, where did you get it?

[ivanwalsh1]

Thanks for the video. We're heading off there in a few days so this is great.

[ratanasu]

here is solution for you in order to get rip off your anger about ccp i will pay pay for your strip to Beijing to face off with the P-L-A may be you is the man that change geography in asia.