Before I came on the trip I had expected the Tibetan plateau to be a boringly flat plain of high altitude most famous for the engineering of the railway that runs over it. What we found was something quite different.
The scenery was picturesque;
occasionally bare but for the railway line . . .
. . . but with striking colours and hues . . .
. . . a dry land sometimes laced with clear mountain streams . . .
. . . with a backdrop of distant snow-capped mountains . .
. . . yet elsewhere we saw patches of sandy desert . . .
. . . but mostly grassland with grazing yaks . . .
. . . watched by herdsmen and railway workers . . .
. . . when our eyes were not on the info display.
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