On route we passed a couple of towns, these were country towns, somehow supporting their own economies and looked pretty run down.
Click Here to Watch Video of Towns We Passed
The facial features of Tibetan men resembled that of American Indians and again whatever interaction we had with them, it was always light hearted and friendly. We seemed to have lost the riot gear, normally quite visible in hotels and petrol stations in the earlier.
Filling petrol in Tibet is now a real process too, with us having to show all our car reg documents and have it registered every time.