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2024 Report: Panda-Themed Tourist Train Departs Guiyang

2024 Report: Panda-Themed Tourist Train Departs Guiyang

Archive: Guiyang departure on 8 May 2024

Historical photo report. These photographs document a departure on 8 May 2024. They do not advertise a currently available tour or confirm that the same itinerary operates today.

Xinhua reported that a Panda-themed tourist train departed Guiyang on 8 May 2024 for a tourism itinerary linking Guiyang, Xishuangbanna and Laos. The photographs show passengers and railway staff at the Guiyang departure. They are photographs of that historical tourist service, not illustrations of the regular Laos passenger-train seating classes.

Photographs from the 2024 departure

Passenger boarding the Panda Train at Guiyang on 8 May 2024
Passenger boarding the Panda Train. Guiyang, 8 May 2024. Photo: Xinhua/Liu Xu.
Passengers boarding the Panda Train at Guiyang on 8 May 2024
Passengers boarding the Panda Train. Guiyang, 8 May 2024. Photo: Xinhua/Liu Xu.
Passenger posing beside the Panda Train at Guiyang on 8 May 2024
Passenger posing beside the Panda Train. Guiyang, 8 May 2024. Photo: Xinhua/Liu Xu.
Passengers posing beside the Panda Train at Guiyang on 8 May 2024
Passengers posing beside the Panda Train. Guiyang, 8 May 2024. Photo: Xinhua/Liu Xu.
Passenger boarding the Panda Train at Guiyang on 8 May 2024
Passenger boarding the Panda Train. Guiyang, 8 May 2024. Photo: Xinhua/Liu Xu.
Passengers boarding the Panda Train at Guiyang on 8 May 2024
Passengers boarding the Panda Train. Guiyang, 8 May 2024. Photo: Xinhua/Liu Xu.
Passengers boarding the Panda Train at Guiyang on 8 May 2024
Passengers boarding the Panda Train. Guiyang, 8 May 2024. Photo: Xinhua/Liu Xu.
Attendant helping a passenger board the Panda Train at Guiyang on 8 May 2024
Attendant helping a passenger board the Panda Train. Guiyang, 8 May 2024. Photo: Xinhua/Liu Xu.
Panda Train departing from Guiyang railway station at Guiyang on 8 May 2024
Panda Train departing from Guiyang railway station. Guiyang, 8 May 2024. Photo: Xinhua/Liu Xu.

Planning rail travel today

For ordinary passenger journeys in Laos, use the Laos railway guide and search the travel date. Confirm any specialist tourist-train itinerary with its current organizer before making plans.

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