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Qinghai-Tibet Train

Tibet travel permit and Alients travel permit

Train from Beijing west - Lhasa
Train No	Dept	Arrive	Dept	Arrive	Duration	Price
						Soft sleeper	Hard sleeper	Seat
T27	Beijing west	Lhasa	19:32	20:00 (third day)	46h30m	193$	140$	79$
T27	Total distance: 4064 km		Important middle station: Shijiazhuang(Hebei), Xian, Lanzhou, Xining, Golumd, Nakqu
T28	Lhasa	Beijing west	08:30	07:34 (third day)	47h04m	193$	140$	79$
T28	Total distance: 4064 km		Important middle station: Shijiazhuang(Hebei), Xian, Lanzhou, Xining, Golumd, Nakqu


Remarks:
	The price which shown in the form is included the service fee.
	The Tibet travel permit must be shown When you boarded on the train, but this price dose not include the Tibet Travel permit, please require the detailed information here: contact@nihaochinatours.com
	The ticket must be purchaced in the original city, so we can only send the ticket in the original departure city.

China has set the timetables for the first three pairs of trains from five cities to Lhasa along the world's highest Qinghai-Tibet railway which is due to open for trial operations on July 1, 2006.

Among the three pairs of train routes, there are a pair of express trains to run from Beijing to Lhasa, four pairs of express trains between Chengdu (Chongqing) and Lhasa, and two pairs of fast trains between Xining (Lanzhou) and Lhasa.

Departing from Beijing's West Railway Station at 21:30, train T27/8 will arrive in Lhasa in Tibet at 20:58 three days after, the 4,064-kilometer trip taking a total of 47 hours and 28 minutes, sources said on Monday.

T27/8 train will pass through six cities, including Shijiazhuang, Xi'an, Lanzhou, Xining, Golmud and Nagqu township.

The return trip from Lhasa to Beijing is scheduled to take 32 minutes longer than the outbound.

The trip from Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, to Lhasa, covering a distance of 3,360 kilometers, will take about 48 hours and 10 minutes on train T22/23. This train will pass Guangyuan, Baoji, then link to Lanzhou, Xining, Golmud and Nagqu township before it reaches Lhasa. The return journey on train T24/1 will take 48 hours 50 minutes.

The 3,654-kilometer trip from Chongqing to Lhasa will have eight stops before it arrives in Lhasa after 47 hours and eight minutes, while the trip from Lhasa to Chongqing will take 48 hours and 50 minutes.

The journey from Lanzhou to Lhasa on train K917/8 will take only 29 hours and 45 minutes to cover 2,188-kilometers.

The journey from Xining in QinghaiProvince to Lhasa, which are 1,972 kilometers apart, will take 26 hours and 23 minutes.

The Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the world's highest, extends 1,956 kilometers from Xining to Lhasa. Some 960 kilometers of its tracks are 4,000 meters above sea level and the highest point is 5,072 meters, at least 200 meters higher than the Peruvian railway in the Andes, which was formerly the world's highest altitude railway.