The train line travels from Chengdu to Lhasa, the Tibetan capital city, and takes about 46 hours per trip. This equals a ton of time to take pictures (and for me to ace the Sam-man at our favorite card game of the ages about 37 times). Here are a few of the better shots.
At the train station before the longest train ride of my life!
Off we go into wide expanse. I love how you can see Aaron's walking sticks that he got blessed by a Taoist priest and carried them around with us for the rest of the trip!
A shot of my half of our train cabin, and half of Sam's legs.
This is what we did for a good portion of the 46 hour long trip. Sleep on Sam!
I got a bit tired myself from time to time. Good thing the ol' iPod had lots of Jack Johnson and Johnny Denver to lull me to sleep! 
You might not be able to tell, but my box of Choco Pies was having an intense reaction to the alititude. Unfortunately, one of the individually wrapped treats couldn't handle the metaphorical or literal pressure and burst on me. Fortunately, it was loaded with so many preservatives, I couldn't taste the fact that it had been exposed to air days before consumption.
We treated ourselves to a celebratory dinner on the food car of the train one day. The whole thing cost us about 20 bucks for all four of us. Matt treated us to some orange drink, and there was much rejoicing.
Our delicious meal after we became acquainted with it.
Our fellow Tibet explorers sit down to dinner. Aaron always got us the best dishes by using his awesome Mandarin vocab powers to dazzle the waitresses into submission. This caused lingual envy between us and fellow travelers, but prevented us from getting ripped off too.
The Tibetan Plateau in all its window-view glory! We had 2 straight days of breath taking scenes of open ranges and farmland with the occasional city.
I like this one because you can see the horse herder in action. Cool stuff eh?!
End of the line: Lhasa Railway Station!!
Yeah, here we are reveling in the fact that we just took a 2 day train ride to Tibet. It took us like 2 days to come to grips that we were all half-way across the world from home, but it took us like 2 seconds to realize we were totally hardcore.
I'm not sure what face I was trying to make, but before you mock or hate remember that I made it in TIBET!!! When was the last time YOU made a stupid face in Tibet???? Yup...thought so.
4 comments:
Very cool photos. it sounds like an awesome adventure!
Good post walker. "I got a bit tired myself from time to time." You're a funny man, brian. Perhaps that line would have been more accurate if it would have read, "Shortly after boarding the train I lost conciousness and was near comatose for the vast majority of the 46 hour ride."
Looks like a great adventure! You will have to post more pics of Tibet because I think some of us are jealous. Have fun!
Oh, Brian and Bryan!! You boys crack me up. I'm glad that you are enjoying your adventures half away across the world. Live it up!
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