"Friendly locals and cycling around Lhasa in a T-shirt will keep you warm in the Tibetan winter," said Christopher Johnson, a tourist visting northwest China's Tibet as well as a writer for CNN. He believes that Tibet is Asia's best winter destination.
Christopher Johnson described Tibet in winter with different perspectives.
"The epic train journey from Beijing, Shanghai or Guangzhou is even more mind-expanding across a winter wonderland where the sunrise sprinkles golden light on the snowfields of the Tibetan plateau, and lonesome trucks navigate the frozen tundra under a milky blue sky."
"Outside the window of a comfy train carriage, yak herdsmen, wearing coats with drooping hoods and extended sleeves, hunker down in bunkers to avoid whipping winds at minus 40 C."
The writer was impressed by the clean water in Tibet: "Far away from the pollution of eastern China, the great rivers of East Asia lie in pure, frozen forms, waiting for the spring thaw to release them upon the continent below."
"More than 4,000 meters above sea level, the Tibetan Plateau is one of the most otherworldly places on earth and like the Arctic or Antarctica, seemingly impossible to inhabit."
"Without spilling a cup of tea at 100 kph, the train brings into view a Xanadu of wild horses and antelope roaming an icy landscape, while inside the train migrant workers from coastal provinces blare ghettoblasters and spit sunflower seeds on the carpet, reveling in their newfound mobility."
"Even 5,000-meter-high passes, which used to suffocate and repel invaders coming from sea-level, no longer deter lowlanders who get buzzed off the oxygen pumped mainline into their nostrils."
