Manigango
Trip Start
May 17, 2007
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Trip End
Jun 30, 2007
Manigango,
China
Saturday, May 26, 2007
It was a teeny tiny town, just 1 street flanked by small shops, eateries and a solitary hotel.
The rooms were pretty decent, with nice wooden flooring and real pillows (many places had pillows filled with rice husks).
Downside is that there are no showers, toilets are unflushable squats and well, you need a torchlight to go to the toilet because the hallways have no light, neither do the toilets.
I am beginning to enjoy peeing in the great outdoors, seriously.
01 Snowy moutains everywhere!
The day was lovely as we travelled across the snowy landscape. The majestic mountains, plains, cliffs, were all blanketed in a thick cover of white.
The large mountain ranges looked like chocolate log cakes with a generous sprinkling of icing sugar. Absolutely breath-taking...
We went over yet another superhigh mountain pass and had another snowball fight!
Fun fun fun! yaay!
I really love this trip.
Tibet is truly the land of yaks. I am pretty sure yaks outnumber humans like.... 100:1 or something!
That said, I still have not have a picture taken with a yak... So, i'll try to work towards it :P
It's just too scary to attempt to hug a yak, as there are the huge guard dogs usually just within run-over-and-bite-you-distance.
Nighttime in Manigango's boring, so we watched Simpson's again
02 Leaving Qinghai, into Sichuan
.I am so so so thankful for Nimrod's DVDs and Rob's laptop -- the urbanite within me is just screaming to be unleashed.
That night, i heard loud pattering on the window pane. It definitely can't be rain.
Rob said it must be a hundred kids throwing pebbles *rolls eyes*
It was a hailstorm, AGAIN!
All too soon, we leave Manigango for Dege (after skipping Serqu), so... it means our trip's ending soon.
And i'm so sad......
- Feli "I don't want this to end" Wong
