hey there everyone, still a little behind on this web site but i'm starting to get there. since leaving dege i've been on one hell of a long road trip! i had to take the bus back to ganzi and saty the night there. early the following morning i was taking the bus to tagong. i fell asleep on the bus and the driver sailed right past my stop, muppet!! so i had to pay eaxtra to get to kanding, after kanding it was up early again to get the bus back to chengd...

hello everyone, it has been 5 months since i left england on my little trip and all is well! i did think i would be out of contact for a while being in the ass end of the back and beyond, but to my surprise even these backward tibetan country folk (not much different to those kilmersdon village yokels) have herd of such revolutionary discoveries such as the t'internet, interior decorating and the wheel! so i'm able to keep everyone posted on the mis-ha...

Hello again everyone, yes i know that's mt. fuji in the postcard picture but i'll change it when i can. when itai and me left maerkang we also left helena, she needed to go back to chengdu, we went onto danba about 7 hours south by rickity bus. when we got to danba we realised why not many people go here, it\'s a hole! so it wasn\'t long before we got a ticket out of there within the an hour of arriving there, not before having a shouting match with the...

Hello again, after spending a night in the hole that is zoige it was onto maerkang for a couple of nights, and by this time itai and me have picked up someone else for a couple of days, her name is helena and she's from essex. cue the essex girl jokes! on the bus ride here i felt as rough as a badgers arse, not sure if i wanted to throw up or soil myself. believe me it's a tough choice! after driving through some pretty crap roads (more like tracks than...

Hello again, YAK BURGERS!! that's all i've heard about this place before coming here, and now i see why! itai and me arrived here just before night fall as hungry as 10 hungry bears, next stop lesha's resturant. in here they sell huge dishes, and i mean huge dishes! we all went for the small yak burger which was big enough to fill anyones appitite followed by a good size slab of apple pie. very nice! in the morning we went trekking up one of the mo...