The eastern border of the "real" Tibet
June 5th 2007 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
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