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March 28, 2005
Trying To Get Somewhere
Officially tourists were only allowed to travel by bus. This was complete nonsense, but with so many Chinese army people around I had no choice but to take a bus, which turned out to be a problem. To find out how my body would cope with the altitude I only wanted to go to Nyalam, which is the first town on the Tibetan Plateau enroute to Lhasa. The ticket office staff were not happy because they were eager to sell tickets for longer trips. But somehow I managed to persuade them and there I was, forced to wait for the damn thing to move. Eventually it did move though. With a happy German inside.