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im in mythical shangri-la. the real one i think tho im never sure with chinese tourism!! im in deqin, a tibetan town which is as far as u can go in yunnan and as near tibet as u can get without a permit. its fascinating, everywhere i look is something different and new, costumes, food, different languages, yaks (everywhere) monks in crimson robes and tibetan buildings too. so its pretty close. theres some good tibetan poverty and begging here too so its not as safe as id hoped but im only staying two nights. might climb a glacier tomorrow if im feeling up to it but we're quite high up and not been feeling so great for a couple of days, altitude sucks! after this i head back to zhongdian and onto kunming to fly to shenzhen. back to civilisation!! -and sea level. its a beautiful 6 hr drive back, scary mountain roads and landlsides- had to get off the bus today and walk over one so the bus could drive over without us. at which point i was very aware my rucksack was on the roof!! past the mountain ranges here up to 7000 meters and snow capped of course. not sure ive ever been so close to mountains that big. one of them, the biggest, has never been climbed. its a holy mountain in buddhism and fo some reason those who try to climb it keep ending up dead. apparently its the japanese climbers who've upset the gods. but i dunno about that!!
missing home and home comforts, more gutted tho that ill be missing chris' birthday this weekend. hoope everyone will be extra nice to him for me!!
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