sorry for the randomness...
hey,
Another post in the space of five minutes. Sorry this is all so erratic, but I can't edit stuff as I don't know what any of the buttons in Chinese do. I also can't read my email as neither my uni email or gmail work! Therefore apologies for no replies to people!
There's incredible phone reception in these distant mountain towns. You'll see people outside shacks on delapadated furniture making calls on their brand new phones.
Everything here is very cheap. Last night's hotel cost about one pound eighty each for a pleasent tripler, en-suite with TV. Taxis are about 80p per ride in the citys, and out here a guy drove us for three hours across mountains for eight quid. A fantastic slap up meal in a small eatery comes out at about 80p.
There's so much new and exciting here it's hard to know what to write about. In short it is beautiful, diverse and constantly exciting. There is much laughter hundreds of funny things happen every day.
It is possible to be very flexible with travel plans here. We were going to spend the night in the last village and had a hotel room for the second night, then this taxi guy talks to anne and we change our plans, cancel the room and got a taxi here. Getting a hotel on arrival!
The glacier incidentally was pretty spectacular, we were able to walk on it and take many photos. I was hoping to upload a few from my camera, but bering in mind the trouble I'm having with my blog, and the fact this PC seems to have been used as an ashtray, I think I'll save it for a classier joint. However the good news is that all means this place must be cheap!
Tomorrow we hope to travel to another mountain town with a lake and maybe see some lamaseries (SP?!) We are quite near tibet and the people look much more tibetan, and there are prayer flags. Just coming over from the last valley all the vegetation completely changed, which I don't entirely understand. This side there were much more scrubby bushes with flowers on them.
I don't know when or where I will next be able to write from, but I'll endeavour to keep writing.
Ali
Another post in the space of five minutes. Sorry this is all so erratic, but I can't edit stuff as I don't know what any of the buttons in Chinese do. I also can't read my email as neither my uni email or gmail work! Therefore apologies for no replies to people!
There's incredible phone reception in these distant mountain towns. You'll see people outside shacks on delapadated furniture making calls on their brand new phones.
Everything here is very cheap. Last night's hotel cost about one pound eighty each for a pleasent tripler, en-suite with TV. Taxis are about 80p per ride in the citys, and out here a guy drove us for three hours across mountains for eight quid. A fantastic slap up meal in a small eatery comes out at about 80p.
There's so much new and exciting here it's hard to know what to write about. In short it is beautiful, diverse and constantly exciting. There is much laughter hundreds of funny things happen every day.
It is possible to be very flexible with travel plans here. We were going to spend the night in the last village and had a hotel room for the second night, then this taxi guy talks to anne and we change our plans, cancel the room and got a taxi here. Getting a hotel on arrival!
The glacier incidentally was pretty spectacular, we were able to walk on it and take many photos. I was hoping to upload a few from my camera, but bering in mind the trouble I'm having with my blog, and the fact this PC seems to have been used as an ashtray, I think I'll save it for a classier joint. However the good news is that all means this place must be cheap!
Tomorrow we hope to travel to another mountain town with a lake and maybe see some lamaseries (SP?!) We are quite near tibet and the people look much more tibetan, and there are prayer flags. Just coming over from the last valley all the vegetation completely changed, which I don't entirely understand. This side there were much more scrubby bushes with flowers on them.
I don't know when or where I will next be able to write from, but I'll endeavour to keep writing.
Ali
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