China Travel Stories

Ngari, West Tibet, by Tom Carter

Date: 2008-9-18 22:36:00 by chinatravel Tags: Tibet

My path to purification began in the home of Shiva the Destroyer – or perhaps it was just his rubbish bin. The shantytown of Darchen at the foot of Mt Kailash in western Tibet is populated with half-naked, red-cheeked children playing in trash heaps. Teahouses running on car battery power, with dirt floors lined with old pillows, serve as bedding for road-weary pilgrims and backpackers be

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My Tibet Experience

Date: 2008-4-24 22:54:00 by Erica Tags: Tibet Travel

We were flying Air China from Beijing to Lhasa. The journey involved a stopover The journey lasted 5 hours involving a stopover ?Tibet was hard to access but this situation has been changed since the opening of the Qinghai-Tibet highland track. Now train service has conveniently linked this geographically isolated region with other part of China. Failure in obtaining train tickets had mad

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Train travel to Tibet

Date: 2008-4-24 21:18:00 by Su Yee Mo Tags: Tibet train travel

Tibet, the mystical land and dubbed "Roof of the World" is now easily accessible with the exciting launch of the train that runs from the various cities in China to Lhasa on 1st July 2006. This train has aroused much of the world's attention and it had certainly caught our attention to try out this novelty ride.

The starting point of our train ride was in Lanzhou. The entire t

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My Tibet Train travel experience

Date: 2008-4-10 21:46:00 by Yourguide Tags: Tibet train travel

I took the newly operated Chongqing-Lhasa train along the Qinghai-Tibet highland railway and reached Lhasa the third day.

Scenery along the rail track is unbelievably beautiful with vast lakes, views of snow-capped mountains, foothill grassland among which flocks of yak and sheep are leaping and skipping.

The train condition is very good, better than most of the trains I ha

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Chongqing to Lhasa Train Travel

Date: 2008-3-25 20:34:00 by MCAA Tags: Tibet train travel

Chongqing

Worth spending a day or so – rather than travel straight through to board the Yangtze boat, as I've done in the past.  It's apparently gearing itself up for more tourism and there's enough here for at least a day and overnight.

Peter was to send details of the Old Tank Loft, a famous art gallery, but I haven't received them, and my email to

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