Expensive vacations

Karen and Richard Carpenter songs should be popular here

BEIJING (Reuters) - Ticket to Tibet, sir? That'll be $1,000 a day. But at least you'll be able to have a good sing on the way.

China is planning to offer luxury trains to the roof of the world when it opens a long anticipated and highly controversial railway to Tibet in July, a state newspaper said Thursday.

The five-star trains, aimed mainly at foreigners, will have showers, on board folk dance shows and that staple of the Chinese holiday experience -- karaoke, the Beijing Times reported.

So luxurious will the train be that it is only going to carry around 100 passengers, as it sweeps through the snowy mountains of mainly Buddhist Tibet at such high elevations the carriages are going to be pressurized like aircraft, the newspaper said.

The trip from Beijing to Lhasa is expected to take at least 48 hours.

Yep, 'I got a ticket to ride' and 'On top of the World' should be the train's theme songs at least.

Anyone want to take a train trip through the Himalayas?

Open Post- Third World County, Samantha Burns,