Tibet!

Firstly, apologies for the huge delay in posting these updates. China has banned blogspot.com, along with a whole host of other sites using what is popularly known as the great firewall of China.

Anyhow, here we all are in Tibet, having driven out of Kathmandu through a mass slow moving trucks and over the Friendship bridge linking China and Nepal. Hear we are at 5000m, the highest paved road in the world! Its very cold and those mountains in the background are over 7000 meters high! At this altitude the air is thin and altitude sickness is a real worry. And the truck needs to breath as well, I started to notice a significant power loss and thick smokey exhaust fumes as the engine struggles to burn the diesel. Fortunately Scania make good trucks, and we push on towards New Tingri until....