China stamped out!!!
March 5th 2011 From Lhasa we took the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, with the line topping the 5072m Tanggu-la pass, and with 80% of the Golmund to Lhasa stretch being over 4000m, this is the world’s highest railway. It’s 160km of bridges, the costs only $4.1 billion so far!!
The train ride was probably the best we had since our start! It was only 24 hours and for the first 12 hours we had the coupe for ourselves..
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