Our second morning on the train was the other kind of
National Geographic experience. We awoke to a world of ice and snow, mountains
and smog-free blue sky. Still in Qinghai, the tracks are set in permafrost,
rising to an elevation of 5070m at the Tibet border. We saw increasing numbers
of Yak and sheep, herded by nomads living in both modern tents and mud huts. We
think we saw wolves and Tibetan antelope, but in all honesty they could be dogs
and deer. Still, everything is more exciting when seen from a train chugging
along frozen tundra.
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| Nature. |
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| Snow. |
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| Yak/sheep herder villages. |
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| We saw a lot of guys standing in the cold saluting the train for some reason. |
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