Small pool beside the track Impressive cloud formations Near Amdo Cuona Lake near Amdo Close ride beside the Cuona Lake Cuona Lake Cuona Lake View out the window to the Cuona Lake Nagqu River near Amdo Erosion protection Amdo Station Climbing to the high Tanggula Mountains Climbing more and more higher and higher Erosion protection every where The high mountans in the background Vista to the landscape near Thangla Ri Far view to the Snow Mountains Tonggula Mountain Close to the Tanggula Snow Mountain Info display inside the train coach Reach the Tanggula Mountain Pass 5,231 Meters Every seconds an different amazing view to the mou… The highway goes beside the train track One more view to the snow fields and glaciers The first runlet of the Yangtze River Closer view to the Tanggula Mountain Along the Tanggula mountain range Tanggula Mountain range Bizarre rock strata near Tanggula town Along the Tongtian River Late in the afternoon Headstream of the Changjiang River (Yangtze River) Inside the dining coach We enjoy the food in the train coach First view in the early morning ... Arriving Xining railway station on the dot Xining Station Plaza Restaurant tent and the Himalaya mountain range Public bus to Xigazê city Yak herd and the Himalaya mountain range Yak herd browse at a hill foot An other convoy on the way to the Kailash Young Tibetan girls in Hor Qu Gongzhucuo lake (Konggyo Tso) Mani wall with thousands carved stones Mani wall leading to the lake side Great spectacle at the sky Holy rest and ... ... the first view to the Holy Kailash mountain Dramatic cloud spectacle Memo Nanyi (Gurla Mandhata) peak (7728 m) Lake Manasarovar (4556 m) Clouds scenery at the Memo Nanyi (Gurla Mandhata)… Holy bath in the Holy Lake Manasarovar Lake side at the Manasarovar (4556 m) Breakfast beside the Holy lake Seralung Gompa Manasarovar lake and the Nemo Nanyi (Gurla Mandhat… Stupa at the Seralung Gompa Seralung Gompa Seralung Gompa Mount Kailash Seralung Gompa called also Drigung Kagyü monastery Snow just in a bit higher altitude No one on the highway Riverbed of Nam Cho Unending foothills in front of the high mountains The floor inside along the coach Dangxiong 4,293 m, clean and empty railwaystation Salama and Albin inside the compartment A look outside the window The track goes along the Tsang Po valley Modern tourist bus runs beside the Tibet train The Tsang Po river also called Yarlung Zangbo Rive… Crossing the Tsang Po river View over the grain fields to the highway Just out of Lhasa Along the Zang Po river Modern construction in the railway station Our group is boarding the train The train is ready for Beijing Boarding the coach No. 11 The railway goes mostly on piles The Qinghai-Tibet Railway The tickets for a sleeping car The gate to board the train to Xining The waiting room in the railway station Lhasa railway station The trail on the piles The map of the railway from Lhasa to Xining Kids welcome us in Zhongdian Dukezong village beside the Songzanlin Monastery Songzanlin Monastery Main entrance to the Songzanlin Monastery Living quarter behind the Songzanlin Monastery Wall paintings inside the Songzanlin Monastery View to the Songzanlin Monastery complex Tibetan woman in a village near Zhongdian A boy look down the balcony View to the big Songzanlin Monastery complex Leaving Zhongdian the Shangri-La in Yunnan Landscape on the way to Zhongdian The border to the Tibetan territory in Yunnan Songzanlin Monastery new constactions Songzanlin Monastery Very simple personal living condition in the Tibet… Inside the Songzanlin Monastery Bitahai Lake near Zhongdian Tibetan boys in the village Tibetan monastery at Lijiangs Yulong Mountain Yak dung used as tibetian fuel Young Tibetian girls Crossing an icefield after the Drolma La Seralung Gompa Zutrul Phuk Monastery Drolma La (5.665 m) at the Kailash Kora Icefall on the Mount Chyangresi Inside a Nomads Tent Kodari the border to Nepal Chaos at the Nepalese border At the riverside of Tsang Po Siri our Tibetan driver shows a carved Yak horn Down, down, down to the Nepalese border Fix my tent in Nyalam Tibetan kids in front of an overland bus