Driving through the Tibet countryside gives me a strange feeling of time travel. We are in a Toyota 4 Wheel Drive and our driver and guide in front wear western clothes but the scenery going past is from another time, another place. Tibetans work in the fields with, at best, horse or yak ploughs, and at worst, a hand plough. The earth is dry and looks unproductive and uncooperative but this is just because the snow has only just melted. In a few weeks crops will ...

Travelling on the highest train line in the world, made for an exciting experience! We spent two days gazing out at the unfolding scenery and two nights sleeping quite well. The only draw back was the toilet. There was supposed to be one Western toilet and one Asian squat toilet, for each carriage, but unfortunately the Western toilet was out of action the whole trip! We survived of course.We were met at the train station by our Tibet guide, Ngawang, and taken to...