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
Inside the Seralung Gompa
Darchen village
Ganges Guesthouse in Darchen
Prayer flags and the Kailash peak
The first Kilometer of the Kora near Tarboche
Cuona Lake near Amdo
Near Amdo
Impressive cloud formations
Small pool beside the track
The remain of workers temporary accommodations
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
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Close ride beside the Cuona Lake
The lake covers an area of about 400 sq km. It is the source lake of Nu River, which is confluence for all the streams and rivers of the southern Tanggula Mountain. Being about 4,650 m above the sea level, the lake is also the highest fresh water lake in the world. Local Tibetans worship it as the 'Holy Lake', every year of dragon on the Tibetan Calendar thousands of pilgrims will trek here to pray for good fortune.
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