Introducing Golmud
Unless you are an engineer or an escaped convict on the run, the only reason to visit this strange outpost in the oblivion end of China is to continue overland into Tibet. While it isn’t a terrible place, you prob‑ably would not want to stay around Golmud (Géěrmù) more than a day, and few visitors do. The booming town owes its existence to mining and oil drilling and, most recently, to the construction of the train line to Lhasa, for which it is a logistical base.
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Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
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RE: Altitude on train route to Kashgar and bus to Golmud
by everbrite 10 September 2011
Since the treatment for altitude sickness if to get to a lower altitude and since you would be traveling on a train and thus always on…
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RE: Altitude on train route to Kashgar and bus to Golmud
by CentralAsia_traveler 10 September 2011
If you go by bus from Kashgar to Golmud via the southern Silk Road, there is an ~4,000 m pass between Charklik / Ruoqiang and Shimiankuang…
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RE: Altitude on train route to Kashgar and bus to Golmud
by uighurbiz 08 September 2011
Yes , there is train but it is very long train to kashgar ,
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