Friendship Highway, Tibet (Day 1)
Recapping a 4-day trip on the Friendship Highway, the 800 km scenic route traversing the Himalayas connecting Lhasa, Tibet, to the border with Nepal.
Lhasa, Tibet
The Roof of the World. We’re seeing that slogan a lot since we got here to Lhasa, Tibet, off the Qinghai–Tibet Railway. That was Sunday evening. It’s now Tuesday morning and yesterday was our first full day of acclimatising and taking in the sights and...
Qinghai–Tibet Railway, Tibetan Plateau || Riding The Rails
We made it out of Xi’an as planned, made it onto the train for Lhasa, Tibet, as planned, and all without needing (yet) to produce the permits we acquired in Xi’an to enable us to undertake this trip legally. 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