A ticket to the good life

Isolation poses a huge challenge to a city loaded with must-sees for tourists, but it is not letting that hold it back

Like migratory birds whose return heralds an impending summer, jet aircraft descend on a remote city in Tibet, harbingers of prosperity whose fruits inhabitants are beginning to enjoy.

And even as aircraft home in on the new terminal at Nyingchi airport, opened four months ago, elsewhere on the ground workers are toiling away on a challenging seven year project in which a railway line is being built to link the city with the capital, Lhasa, about 400 kilometers to the west.