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World's Highest Train: Lhasa to Beijing

by Rick Ruffin   
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Chinese Restaurant On Way To Shigatse
Inside the restaurant with all the bikes parked in front. The woman is...

Prayer Wheels Shigatse

Prayer Wheels Shigatse
Sun-me running the prayer wheels outside Tashilumpo Monastery.

Tibetans Crossing Street

Tibetans Crossing Street
Tibetans in Lhasa. Notice the woman's rosy red cheeks.

View From Rickshaw

View From Rickshaw
The only argument we got into in two weeks in China and Tibet was with this...

Lhasa Fruit Seller

Lhasa Fruit Seller
Sun me buying fruit from a seller in downtown Lhasa. She insisted on speaking...

Tibetan Man

Tibetan Man
I found this guy in some dusty, windblown town where we stopped for...

Sun me, Batchoo and Pemba

Sun me, Batchoo and Pemba
Our Guide Pemba, and our Driver Batchoo. My wife in the middle. Lhasa train...

Leaving Lhasa

Leaving Lhasa
Sun-me staring out the window of the sleeper car on the highest train in the...

Yaks and Mountains on Tibetan Plateau

Yaks and Mountains on Tibetan Plateau

Yaks and Mountains, Again

Yaks and Mountains, Again

Train Sleeping

Train Sleeping
My wife doing what she does best. Lhasa to Beijing Express.

Top O The World

Top O The World
Somewhere on the world's highest flat place, the Qinghai Plateau...

Greenhouse Gases

Greenhouse Gases
China builds one coal burning electricity generating power plant every two...

Nuclear Power

Nuclear Power
I'm not an expert, so I don't know. Is this nuclear power? Somewhere...

Steel Mill

Steel Mill
This is the big steel mill in Lanzhou, Gansu Province, Central China.

Gansu Province

Gansu Province
Houses somewhere in eastern Qinghai or Gansu Province, China.

Yellow River

Yellow River
I asked the people in the sleeper cabin next to ours "Is this the Yellow...

Dirt Houses Rural China

Dirt Houses Rural China
The train passed through an area in Central China around Gansu Province where...

Yellow Landscape

Yellow Landscape
More yellow landscape, Central China around Gansu and Xanxi Provinces.

Eating Sunflower Seeds

Eating Sunflower Seeds
Here I am looking out the window as we hurtle through the Loess...

Greenhouses

Greenhouses
Greenhouses in dusty, arid, lacking for water Central China.

Arriving Beijing

Arriving Beijing
But the next morning, surprise, surprise. Clear skies (relatively)...

Beijing Railway Station

Beijing Railway Station
Packed. A good reason for China's one child policy. China is...

Railway Station

Railway Station
The irony of this trip was that over 14 days some of the clearest...

Ming Tombs

Ming Tombs
Ming Tombs outside Beijing. This is the excess that led to the Cultural...
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article published 3/3/2009
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I enjoyed the pix. One of my favorites, simply as a foto, was of the steps up the Potala Palace. I also enjoyed the fotos of rugged, ruddy-cheeked Tibetans. But I was expecting to see more people on the streets in Lhasa. I'll remember the "Chinglish" sign from Chengdu as a great general guide for all travel: Slip Carefully!
— Holt Ruffin, March 3, 2009
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