Strange things are starting to happen as the Lhasa Express chuffs across the rooftop of the world. Outside the double-glazed, UV-blocking windows, I can see black-robed Tibetan nomads tending their ...

On July 1, the Chinese government celebrated with great fanfare the opening of the final stretch of its railway to Tibet. The section runs between the city of Golmud in Qinghai province and the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about adventures for people traveling solo. Train rides through this vast and mysterious area of the world of tundra, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Aboard the Beijing-Lhasa Express, China – China’s first train from Beijing to Tibet set out Saturday carrying business travelers and thrill-seekers on the ...

Tibet Train Travel The Train to Tibet is one of the tremendous achievements in the industry of train transportation as well as tourism in China. Between Xining and Golmud the tracks pass by Qinghai ...

Each night, the Qinghai-Tibet train leaves Beijing at 9:30. A mere 48 hours later, it rolls into Lhasa, 2,525 miles away. Your support powers solutions-focused climate reporting — keeping it free for ...

The first train service to Tibet opened Saturday on the world's highest railway, an engineering feat protesters say could threaten the restive Himalayan region's environment and Buddhist culture.

Two-thousand-five-hundred miles over two days, a journey through some of China’s biggest cities, long stretches of countryside and over the world’s highest-altitude railroad pass: The Lhasa Express ...

ABOARD THE BEIJING-LHASA EXPRESS – Chugging past shaggy yaks and fluffy clouds that look low enough to lasso, the train from Beijing to Lhasa makes its final climb into nosebleed territory pulled by ...