Feature: Don't want to fly? The `Seat 61' man can help

OVERLAND ROUTE A British man's labor-of-love Web site has been drawing visitors in droves with its advice on traveling by railways, or any means other than airlines

AFP , LONDON

As for this year's most talked about rail adventure, China's newly launched high-altitude train to Tibet, "I think I'll wait until the excitement has calmed down."

"The world is changing," he added. "If we're not careful, it will be an identical world with identical fast food places, identical hotel chains, and every journey is an identical journey at 30,000 feet."

"But we're not there yet," he said.