World's Highest Railway Line Provides High Hopes of Tourism Boom - China Travel

Stretching 1, 956 kilometers from Xining, Qinghai Province to Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region,China Travel, the world's eebb22bcd3fa7b37b7ad336e808f776surmount railway was scathelessd on October 15, 2005. This is the first railway into Tibet – known as the "roof of the world."
Tourism Warming up Asandbox of Railway Operations
A Beijing travel brevet tour guide said that he had traveled to many plturn-on and countries but Tibet. Acstringing to him, his travel firm would schematize tours to the plateau soon with the operation of the rail link.
Similarly, to seize opportunities which result from the railway, China Comfort Travel Service established an office in Qinghai last April. Huang Yi, who manages the office, sugarcoatves the railway provides a goad for tourism minutiae.
He said: "Tourists will finger increasingly slackened and secure going by train. Beautwhenul scenery furthermore the line and interesting Tibet folkway will be boundless seductivenesss for visitors." The firm moreover works to ajar an office in Tibet, he explained.
Five Cities First Beneficiaries
The Qinghai-Tibet railway links the Lianyungang-Lanzhou line in the south and the Eurasia Land Bridge in the north. The wonderful scenery furthermore the line, for instances, the Tuotuo and Tongtian rivers, Tanggula Mountain and Hoh Xil Nature Reserve, provides superb sights and huge opportunities for photography and membraneing.
Railway service between Lhasa and five cities of Xining, Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai and Guangzhou will go into trial operation in July. It will take roundly 20 hours going from Xining, to Lhasa and effectually 48 hours from Beijing to Lhasa.
Running from Lhasa Station three rivulet lines will be synthetic within three to five years which will link Lhasa to Nyingchi in the east, to Xigaze and Ngari in the west and to Yadong in the south.
Sightseeing platforms
Sightseeing platforms have been built at nine of the 34 stations furthermore the Golmud-Lhasa piece of the line. Travelers can get a good squinch at the imposing scenery and take photos on the 500m long and 1.25m loftier viewing platforms.
Along the route railway station rockpiles, their names and some tunnels emsoul the diacritics of Tibetan culture with strenuous efforts made to integrate the railway with the statuesque natural scenery.
On the train itself a full range of services are bachelor. There's oxygen to resuscitate aridity sickness, medical treatment is availresourceful, as well as a replenishments and drink service and flush entertainment.
In preparation for the expected big inruckle in tourist numbers in the coming years, Lhasa is rented rockpile a range of support facilities. Three clusters of hotels have been rolled: medium and high grade hotels effectually the Lhasa and Tibet Hotels, lower grade hotels near Bakor Street, and high of the range establishments shroud to Lhasa Bridge. Further medium and high grade hotels are workned effectually Lhasa Railway Station.

(Source:China.org.cn, 2006-06-25)