It's the night before China's October National Day, and close to 1,000 passengers are on the high-speed train bound for a place that was unreachable by rail until recently: Lhasa, Tibet.

9. The highest speed of any train on a plateau frozen-earth railway anywhere in the world. The Qinghai-Tibet train can reach speeds of 100 kilometers per hour on frozen-earth sections and up to ...

This is posted by travel agencies that operate in TAR. [Source: China Tibet Train Tours] In 2018, both houses of the US Congress passed the bipartisan Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act. That is a ...