The High, the Holy and the Hideous
The worst toilets in the world are above 12,000 feet.But, then, everything about the two weeks that have passed since our last post from Xi'an has been in the superlative. The highest. The holiest. And the most hideous.
Xi'an to Lhasa
Officially, it's the Qinghai-Lhasa railway (unofficially, it's the Lhasa Express), and it first opened thirteen months ago. The highest railway in the world it spends its last twelve hours above 3,000 meters. The Canadian-designed carriages (first, you design the coolest cars in the world, then your dollar beats ours. What's next? World domination?) fortify the ambient air to 24% oxygen and each passenger's bunk has a supplementary oxygen outlet. Unfortunately, you have to ask for the nasal prongs, and we forgot to do so.
