Lhasa railway station
The waiting room in the railway station
The tickets for a sleeping car
The gate to board the train to Xining
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway
The railway goes mostly on piles
Trying to shoot (with the photo camera of course!!…
Yuki waiting for the next show
First view at a Manta
The Manta is coming for sure
Mantas don't like air bubbles???
Manta flying over us
Manta's silhouette
Can't stop photo shooting Mantas
Manta and diver
Close to the Manta head
A flying young Manta turns over us
Next capture ... no words, just euphoria
Other Manta Ray appears
Mantas gills
The Mantas surface
A small Manta from above
Playing with the giant Manta
The map of the railway from Lhasa to Xining
Xining Station Plaza
Arriving Xining railway station on the dot
Railway station in Xining
First view in the early morning ...
We enjoy the food in the train coach
Inside the dining coach
Headstream of the Changjiang River (Yangtze River)
Late in the afternoon
Along the Tongtian River
Bizarre rock strata near Tanggula town
Tanggula Mountain range
Along the Tanggula mountain range
Closer view to the Tanggula Mountain
The first runlet of the Yangtze River
One more view to the snow fields and glaciers
The highway goes beside the train track
Every seconds an different amazing view to the mou…
Reach the Tanggula Mountain Pass 5,231 Meters
Info display inside the train coach
Close to the Tanggula Snow Mountain
Tonggula Mountain
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The trail on the piles


There were and are many technical difficulties for such a railway. About half of the second section was built on barely permanent permafrost. In the summer, the uppermost layer thaws, and the ground becomes muddy. Chinese engineers dealt with this problem by building elevated tracks with foundations sunk deep into the ground, building hollow concrete pipes beneath the tracks to keep the rail bed frozen, and using metal sun shades. Similar to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System portions of the track are also passively cooled with ammonia based heat exchangers.
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