Hello everyone, as you all can see, this blog has been posted late, because for the first time in our journey we have had no wi-fi at the evening accommodations since Thursday evening. We are slowly edging our way towards Everest base camp.Today was all about the journey – the good and the bad parts….. Altitude sickness slightly better then previous few days, have started to take some medication for it, just cannot risk the bad side effects experienced previously. My patch of driving was quite challenging, with sharp mountain bends and really rough roads. But still great fun driving the LC in this type of terrain.

Certain towns we passed were certainly not developed.

Both above, just looked very pretty. Not sure what their names are, but I couldnt resist taking snaps.

Country folk going about their business…….  

Friendly, but weary of finding out – how friendly?

Click Here to Watch Video of People Working in Field

After this close encounter, we made our way back to the LC.      

Some scenes along the way:

Click Here to Watch the Video of the Road Ahead

Click Here to Watch the Video of the Road under Construction

Offices in Tingri that we had to go to, in order to get our passes for tomorrow when we head to the Everest Base Camp.

Kirit being Kirit – needed oxygen because he was feeling weak in the knees.

Now revived – he’s back with his mates.

Circular prayer bell at a local monastery in Tingri

Dung ,used extensively for heating A local monastery we visited on the way to the hotel…..

Views from the monastery…

We then checked in our hotel; basically we had a choice of just the one in Tingri – it was freezing outside and actually it was no better inside our hotel room neither. The discussion about dinner was very quickly resolved as some of us were not prepared to eat another Chinese meal and so one thing led to another resulting in Manvir and me taking over the hotel kitchen to prepare a chicken curry!!

The chef was brilliant and accommodated us in every way. We had a pretty satisfying meal, one which we may cherish especially in the next few nights, where we will return to very basic accommodation and no proper hot meals.

Mentioned previously that room was very cold, our solution – we boiled the kettle, adding water continuously to the kettle, kept the lid open, and it did break the chill and warmed up the room a bit!   With no wi-fi at this hotel, we were tired anyway, all went to bed relatively early.

Some general photos.