Headed off on a 5 day horsetrekking tour up in the north western Chinese mountains, close to Tibet. We finally reached our starting point, Songpan, after a gruelling 8.5 hour bus journey in what can, at best, be described as those old yellow "Bus Scoile" buses from the Middle Ages and driving as if the four horsemen of the apocolypse were chasing us along a winding hairpin road carved into the side of the sheer mountain face. That was enough to make us saddlesore before we even SAW a horse! In addition, he insisted on leaning on the bus horn, which was at a criminally high decible level, for no apparant reason, especially when travelling through towns and there was no vehicle nor person in front of him. First day on the horses was grand, with
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