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 mountains which surround this little town with a guy who was also in our room called alon. you really start to realise how high you are up here when you start to walk and climb places because after a few steps your out of breath, we jumped on a local taxi, a tractor pulling a trialor full of fruit, upto the base of the mountain and then we started our climb. on the way up we must have stopped every 10-15 meters to talk about something else just so we colud have a break from climbing. we didn't even make it to the top, but we got pretty close. we climbed out onto a stone peak to have a look at the scenery around us, just breath taking. looking down onto the town and around the mountains surrounding us was great and we even watched a hawk fight with 2 crows, the hawk was kicking ass! needless to say it was a lot easier to get down the mountain then to climb it. that night i thought i'd try the 'big mac yak attack' which is the large yak burger, i wish i never did! this burger came out and it was bigger than anything i've ever seen, it was about 12'' round and it was stuffed with about an inch and a half to 2 inches thick of yak meat. the record for finishing one of these burgers was 96 minutes. i was doing well untill the last quater. i reached the last quater at about 60 minutes and then i hit a wall! every mouth full was a struggle, the bread seemed to get thicker and i kept finding pieces of grissle in the yak meat towards the end, after nearly throwing up a few times i called it a day, the big mac yak attack beat me! that night i could hardly sleep where i was so full up. the next morning a few of us went to a sky burial site. if you don't know what a sky burial is i'll try and give a brief discription: the body is lead out on some stones in front a guy who is sharpening his knives reciting matras, he then slices into the body. the body is cut into large chunks of flesh and the bones and brain are smashed and mixed with barley flour. next come the vultures. the guy with the knife steps away and the huge vultures swoop down and start to eat the flesh and then carry it upto the heavens, witnessed by the family of the deceased from a nearby hilltop. let's just say i'm glad a sky burial didn't take place the day we went up there or else i would have seen that damn yak burger again. but what we did see was the tools the use and a few vultures hanging around. on the way back down we walked through the buddhist temple where i spun some prayer wheels, where i prayed never to see another yak burger again. in the afternoon a few of us went to the hot springs. which were not quite what i was expecting, i was expecting bubbling water pools everywhere but insted it was more like a small swimming pool which was the temperature of a hot bath. we laid there for a few hours trying to make conversation with the locals. that was our last night in langmusi, another early morning to get the bus to zoige. cheers guys, speak soon. christopher