By Chad Pen Lowe, bostonese.com columnist
“You need the 入藏函(Letter to Enter Tibet)”, the tour bureau representative told me, after examining my USA passport. I couldn’t believe it. I was on my way to Tibet and was stopping by in Zhengzhou, a city in central China. “Could you double-check?”, I asked earnestly, hoping it was a mis-information on her part. “Before the train enters Tibet, there will be a checkpoint. Everybody who does not have a National ID card(身份证)or Letter to Enter Tibet will be turned back and sent onto the next train that comes back.”
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