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The Tibetan Plateau
Wild horse and Yaks Snow capped peak of
At Amdo Grassland the Kunlun
The Qinghai Lake
Qinghai Tibet Train: The Qinghai-Tibet railway is a high-
elevation railway and the world’s longest railroad built atop
a plateau, which connects Xining, Qinghai province, to
Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region in China. The total length
of the railway is 1,956 kms and the journey takes about 22
hours from Xining to Lhasa, and passes through one of the
longest railway tunnels in the world and stops at Tanggula
which happens to be the highest railway station in the world
at 16,627 feet beating Peru’s Ticlio at 15,702 feet.
