The RG had said that tickets to Kangding only went on sale at 2:30PM the day before travel - the fact that our tickets, purchased on the dot, only got us seats in the second of 2 minibuses that were laid on in addition to the main bus made me suspect that that wasn't true. It was a cold and smoky journey on bumpy roads. The first part of the journey was climbing out of Litang's valley via a 4,700m pass, where we saw a large yak herd plodding across the hillside like wildebeest over the Serengeti, then through some misty terrain, before the gradual descent to Kangding. People at the roadside constantly leapt out to dangle bags of winter worms at us as we drove by. We were even beset by vendors at the lunch
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