After an hour of waiting the bus picks me up and meet my travel companions six large leathery looking Tibetan dudes who spend the first half of the journey hitting and slapping each other.and i understand why china sent so many military as the tibetan dudes are strong and very leathery.the scenery is epic mountain passes low valleys and Tibetan monasteries and pray flags at each corner .after about 3 hours the interest turns to me and with no Tibetan the conversation turns to sign language which seems to be about homosexual sex and offers of it.now originally I figured they were just joking but when your on a bus in the middle of nowhere for the next five hours with these dudes and the one directly in front of me has a large hunting knife sticking out of the back of his trousers you tend to get paranoid , but after ten minutes they get bored and go back to hitting each other.the time passes quickly due to the driver playing chicken with very large trucks at high speeds on high mountain roads .arriving in xiancheng I wonder up and down the street realising I have no idea were to find a guest house when I pass a local restaurant seeing two westerners I ask if they no anywhere they say they do and are going there shortly on the way we bump into a bus driver who offers seats to sangrila in the morning ( which is the place I initially wanted) so I have someone to travel with and a ticket and some accommodation and no Tibetan anal thank god.haha oh and after defending a few thousand feet ally symptoms disappeared .