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Next leg of our trip is in Tibet... we flew from Kathmandu to Gongar airport - because our flight went right past Everest, we had to draw straws for the window seat on the left hand side of the plane... jammy me (Raj) got the best seat... unlucky Rupal was on the seat on the opposite side sitting next to some boring old bloke! Managed to get soom good pics of Everest.
Landed at the airport and felt a bit weird (we were at about 3500m), and all of our toiletries etc got pressurised and exploded when we opened them... other than a few weird dreams, we seem to have escaped altitude sickness.
Our guide is a spitting image of Jackie Chan - top guy though! We've been keeping an eye out for Eddie Murphy and the Golden Child, but no luck yet!! Tibet is exactly how you'd imagine it... loads of monks and monastries, completely arrid, with unpredictable weather.
We spent the first day in Tsedang - the oldest city in Tibet (about 5000 yrs old), and visited the first palace - bit of a hike, so we decided to cop out and take yaks/horses up to the top instead (some things never change!)
Back to the hotel with the rest of the group... and onto Lhasa tomorrow...
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