Geo: 30.034, 101.95Day 3: Hailuogou to Kangding So today was mainly spent at the top of a glacier, or to put it more accurately, at the top of apparently the world's lowest altitude glacier. This mornings sunrise never occurred- excessive cloud cover being to blame, however it did mean an extra hour in bed- so every cloud right has a silver lining right (haha, go on,laugh!).Anyway, today started by being handed tickets and shepherded onto a bus to go to the glacier. All was going well, despite the sheer drops, hair pin bends, partially constructed roads, plenty of cement mixers to share the poorly constructed roads with and a driver who would have made a great F1 driver! I was feeling only marginally safer than yesterdays journey! Suddenly we stopped on a steep bend an were
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