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Train to the Roof of the World

admin October 29, 2007

China’s new 1,200-mile railway crosses some of the harshest terrain on the planet. Plug in your oxygen supply. 47 hours of sceneries from Beijing to Lhasa. All aboard the Tibet express, reading this article of the American magazine ‘Wired’

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/chinarail.html

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Tags:  China,  Lhasa,  Tibet

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