More mountains....

The day after our last update we hired a driver for a couple of days. This guy was crazy, he argued and shouted lots then would be friendly again. I'm very glad we're no longer with him! During one of his nice moments he let me drive the car, which was rather exciting as the road was littered with rocks, pot holes, turned to mud, was crossed by a small river, and dotted around with cattle and the odd flock of goats.

We were driving on mountain roads towards Tibet and then back to Kanding again. They were very high one of them topping 4300m but I managed to get away with only mild mountain sickness through taking it easy and returning to lower levels at night. It will be downhill all the way from here as we're getting the bus back to Chengdu, where we'll hang out for a day or so.

The scenery has been absolutely amazing. I have got to see yaks. We were just over a hundred miles from Tibet which was fantastic, as there is a lot of influence and most of the people are Tibetan. In fact many didn't even speak Mandarin, but only a Tibetan language.

Well I've got to go now.

Cheers,


Ali