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Blog 7 - Tibet

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Us at Glacial lakes Early morning start, with clouds above and below us! Up at 5000 metres China Tibet highway 30.7.10 We have been on the road 2 months now! Last night, for the first time, we were antisocial! Every time we stop (for 60 nights!) we are besieged by locals wanting to look inside our trucks. We have had several huge days of hard driving, and were full of dust, and exhausted, so we crawled thru from the cab to the living area, didn’t put down our steps, and hid!!! John’s show and tell Today we learn that our route to Lhasa has been closed (about 100kms away) by a rockslide causing bridge collapse (98metre bridge). We now have to backtrack over these mountain tracks for a couple of days, and wait for the Chinese Govt to approve our alternate route, which may, or may not, get us to Lhasa! (Every village we pass thru must be approved!) Swamped by the gorge Hard 4 days awaiting our fate The scenery here is spectacular (have I said that before??!!!) We have driven th