Chengdu-Lhasa Train Travel Guide: Everything to Know

Chengdu-Lhasa train is one of hottest lines for people traveling to Tibet from Chengdu. Two things endow it the special position. The beauty of Chengdu attracts endless people to pouring into Sichuan to see cute pandas and taste amazing Sichuan foods, so one thing is that Chengdu-Lhasa Train tours connects giant pandas & hot pot with the holy Tibet. Another thing is that Sichuan is the major province inland to deliver population entering Tibet.

Brief Introduction of Chengdu-Lhasa Train

Chengdu-Lhasa train (Z322/return train Z324) spans 5 provinces in the west region of China, showing in the shape of inverted V and covering 3070 km in total. From Chengdu to Lhasa, you will spend 43hr7m on the train, with similar length of Beijing and Shanghai Lhasa Trains. On this train, it is common to witness different folk customs, foods, cultures and also sceneries of different regions.

√ Read on:

• Beijing-Lhasa Train travel guide
• Chongqing-Lhasa Train Travel Guide

1. What should be noted when booking the Chengdu-Lhasa train tickets?

Chengdu-Lhasa (Z322) Train is NOT launched every day but EVERY TWO Days. The train from Chengdu is available on every singular date and the train from Chengdu on every even date. For example, Chongqing-Lhasa trains keep running on Feb 01^st, March 03^rd, April 05^th and June 07^th while Chengdu-Lhasa trains on July 08^th, August 10^th, September 12^th and October 14^th. On the contrary, the return train from Lhasa is available on each even day.

2. What is the Price for a Chengdu-Lhasa Train Ticket?

3. What is the Schedule of Chengdu-Lhasa Train?

4. What Do you Concern If You Plan Traveling to Lhasa from Chengdu by Train?

Three Seat Options of the Chengdu-Lhasa ttrain

There are three sorts of options on the train to Lhasa from Chengdu, soft sleepers combined with hard sleepers and hard seat. Considering the tour in Tibet need a good physical condition, the hard sleepers with long term toil on aboard are not suggested in case of causing more serious altitude stress. Hard & soft sleepers engage the listed merits and demerits as following, which sheds a light on travelers’ decision about transportation based on own condition.

• Hard sleeper

1. Cheaper;make friends easily with other passengers to kill time on aboard
2. 6 berths in an open coach without door; relatively noisy; smaller room and berth space; less private space & belongings safety

• Soft sleeper

1. 4 berths in a carriage with open to confirm private space relatively; more luxurious, cozy quiet, and comfortable; more roomy space for each passenger; lower risk for safety of belongings
2. Much more expensive

Soft sleepers earn higher recommendation for the all advantages above according to the successfully operated Shanghai-Lhasa Train Tours by Tibet Travel. We kindly suggest so because Tibet locates in the highest plateau of the world and covered by the thinner oxygen, common people used live in the plain or place with relatively lower altitude need to adjust a good physical and sleeping conditions from the moment you step on the train. After all, safety is always in the primary position in traveling, which also is our basic philosophy.

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The Equipment and Food on the Chengdu-Lhasa Train

1. The train are well equipped with the modern and convenient facilities which are introduced into Chinese, Tibetan language and English.
2. Although most infrastructure are introduced by English, foreigners may have some problems in ordering meals or something like that when the serving stuff can speak English, so you are suggested to download a translation software which will help a lot.
3. All the carriagesof Chengdu-Lhasa train are installed with charging devices and oxygen supplement outlets. You are suggested to bring some food and fruit yourself, such as instant noodles, ham sausage, chocolates and apples. Surely, the dining car offers the typical Chinese meals and some snack foods & fruits to the customers.

How to Book Beijing-Lhasa Train Ticket

As there is only single one train every two days launched from Chengdu to Lhasa and the more and more rapid demands of Tibet Train Tours, hard-to-get tickets of Chengdu-Lhasa Train is always the first concerns for people planning Tibet travel throughout the whole year, seeming much more serious in peak season (July to October).

Usually, online tickets booking and train station & tickets agency booking are the major channels to get Chengdu-Lhasa tickets. The physical outlets need you wait in a long queue but hardly ensure you get a ticket successfully with the same price of online because the price tends to fluctuate according to market demand. Online booking permits you the fixed price but forces you to snatch the tickets with a huge number of individual customers and travel agencies in a grim situation. In addition, buying train tickets would not be very easy and simple for foreigners if they don’t speaking Chinese or understand little about the booking website.

When considering the real conditions of Tibet Train Tour which has problems of hard tickets booking and Tibet Permit demanding, the package of Tour + Train Tickets Booking by a professional travel agency is apparently the first recommended choice for the individual travelers. Firstly because that travelers usually need to join in tour of a tourist company then they can get Travel Permit. Secondly because that many travel agencies offer only tour & ticket package but no single booking service, and even a few provide this service, they would charge quite higher service fee to the customers.

Chinaxiantour offers both Chengdu tours, Tibet Tours, Chengdu to Tibet tours, and tours + Tickets Booking Package or Only Tickets Booking Service to the customers in the market. We forever try our best to provide the rich and excellent service and most reasonable price for our customers. We are happy to make the impossible into possible and let each of our guest please all of himself/herself in the Beijing-Lhasa Train Tour.

Other Sound Alternative Choices to Avoid Hard-to–get Chengdu-Lhasa Tickets

As we know that Xining is the starting stop of Qinghai-Tibet Railway, there are more than 5 trains launched daily to Lhasa. So an effective method to solve the problem of hard-to-get tickets is cut down Chengdu-Lhasa route into Chengdu-Xining-Lhasa.

• Take flight to Xining where Qinghai-Tibet starts to run and then have about 22 hours by Xining-Lhasa Train to your destination.
• Take Chengdu-Xining trains for about 20 hours firstly and stay one or more days at Xining where you can visit some famous attractions likeQinghai Lake, Ta’er Lamasery and taste typical northwestern food. Afterwards, continue journey to Tibet by Xining-Lhasa train.

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