We began our 2-day journey on the Friendship Highway from Lhasa in hopes to be able to sleep at Everest Base Camp. We were a bit worried that the altitude would pose a problem as Mindy felt effects in Lhasa at 3600 meters. Everest Base Camp sits at a whopping 5200 meters! We split our […]
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We could feel the higher elevation of Lhasa as soon as we stepped off the train, and no longer had access to the outlets pumping out oxygen. The altitude here is 3650m and it took us about 24 hours to fully acclimatize. Once we did, we were able to focus more on the environment around […]
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At 4:30pm in Xining we boarded car #1, just behind the engine car and found the middle bunks # 15 and 16 in a doorless room of 6 hard sleepers. We greeted our bunkmates with a smile and a Ni Hao and we were relieved when they responded in kind. For half of our previous […]
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