China's Tibet train a marvel over magnificence

From the Travel section of Saturday, July 29th's Washington Times:

http://washingtontimes.com/travel/20060 ... -5427r.htm

I have seen a report suggesting that maintenance is going to be very difficult on this line.
http://news.muzi.com/news/cc/english/33689.shtml

And the governmebnt says these problems will be solved.

http://www.china.org.cn/english/travel/177622.htm

Aa3rt wrote:From the Travel section of Saturday, July 29th's Washington Times:

http://washingtontimes.com/travel/20060 ... -5427r.htm

The line is going to be extended towards the Indian border.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 778521.stm

george matthews wrote:

Aa3rt wrote:From the Travel section of Saturday, July 29th's Washington Times:

http://washingtontimes.com/travel/20060 ... -5427r.htm

The line is going to be extended towards the Indian border.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 778521.stm

The most likely alignment for the Lhasa Xegaze link will be along the Yarlung Tsangpo (Bramhaputra) river, essentially the same way that the metalled highway linking Xegaze with Lhasa takes.

Most tourists who travel from Xegaze to Lhasa usually take a more scenic southerly route through Gyangze, and then up by Namdrok Tso and across Kamba La Pass. Gyangze is connected to the Lhasa - Xegaze highway by a good metalled road and this road continues South from Gyangze towards Yadong and then through Nathu La Pass into India.

Back in 2001 I travelled by road from Kathmandu to Lhasa via Zhangmu, Nylam, Tingri, Lhaze, Xegaze and Gyangze. Spectacular country and a very enjoyable trip once you get over the altitude sickness. back then the border crosiing between Nepal and Tibet at Khasa/Zhangmu was the only open motorable border crossing from the South into Tibet. Since then, as the newspaper article says, India and China have opened the border crossing at Nathu La, and folks are talking about through bus service from Calcutta to Lhasa. Boy, we have come a long way since 1962.