We were woken this am by Tim knocking to say Tom wasn't well. A worrying start to the am, but Rik decided to let both of them sleep in and we'd just have a later start to the day. They were both looking a bit rough round hte edges so we took it easy. Luckily Shigatse, our next port of call, is only a 2 hour drive away, across fairly smooth roads- it was bliss compared to yesterday and lots of sleeping took place. Checked in to lovely hotel, rested, had lunch in fab place that served a whole host of different nationality foods, then off to Tashi Lunpo Monastery on our own as Tenzin the guide had to go arrange our permit to Kailash. It was ok, but without a guide we got a bit lost and all the rooms looked kinda the same so we left, having taken photos of Chinese tourists taking photos of each other, and returned to our fav restaurant of earlier. Afternoon shopping and post card writing, back to hotel for rest, then dinner...back at our fav hotel! Luckily Tom is back to normal but Tim's suffering from the beginnings of a cough to go along with his cold, poor lad.
Tomorrow we leave civilisation and probably won't find any more internet access until we get back to kathmandu on August 13th. So don't worry about a long pause between blog entries. We should, all being well, reach Kailash on 7th or 8th of August, so think of us then, starting at 1000metres or so higher than we are now (we're currently at 3,800 metres) and going up to 5600 metres. Hope there's some spare oxygen somewhere! And that the sun stays out for our day time wanderings. So long, till the next missive....
Left- Bizarre statue at our hotel in Shigatse
Below- Tom and Tim at Tashi Lunpo Monastery
Rik & Tim in racing rickshaws back to the hotel
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