We’ll be coming round the mountain …

Friday 8th December 2006

A very cold morning but fresh mountain air was a godsend after the busy cities. The girls at the hostel were very accomodating serving me green tea as I was the first one up to admire the freshness of rural China. A much easier 11k walk was ahead of us today today, mostly flat around the cliff edge through waterfalls and over rocks, we’ll be coming round the mountain when we come….sing a long now. Lunch was at Tina’s Guesthouse, a spicy concoction of dishes, tasty but still very spicy for my poor insides which were being grated down to nothing. I am finally getting used to chopstick life and if things don’t go to plan then just stab it with the chopstick. Our arrival at Sean’s guesthouse in the late afternoon we were blessed with tea for myself (a Tibetan tea) and beer for the other guys, guess the English amongst our group. The evening drew in as we chatted through dusk. One of the girls at the last hostel had decided to stay with us for the evening, so once there were four now there were five. As it got darker we realised the whole village was in pitch darkness – we had no power. Powercuts are not infrequent in rural China. The torch and candles made an appearance and food was served via gas stoves.