At more than 16,000 feet the train from Lhasa is in serious need of oxygen. Luckily they have it. Each cabin has four little outlets that keep you breating. Still one time when i lifted Evita down from the bunkI thought that i was going to faint. Cool!
We saw lots of Yaks, lots of snow and nomads in the middle of nowhere. The Tibetan plateau is huge and took us more than 24 hours to cross, it is full to the brim with water, like a giant sponge.You can easly see why it is the sourse of the Yangzi river (and no doubt others). We survived in our nice comfy beds with plenty of instant noodles.
After passing out of Tibet, our trip continued through the Loas Plateau, which is, made up of a yellow earth cut into terraces. The same earth is used to make the local bricks so all of the houses are yellow too. It is very dry on the mountains with crops on the rivers edge below..
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