Today we have to ride 300 miles - not normally a problem but today the last 100 miles will be on dirt roads climbing from 1300m up to 4996m, that's a lot of up!! But its exciting as tonight we will be sleeping up on the Tibetan Plateau at 3800m. At 07:00 we set off in the dark (that's Beijing Time for you - the locals would call this 05:00!!) but the sun soon rises over the flat agricultural plain. Sometimes the landscape is desert like and other times very green with trees lining the road but always in the distance are snowy mountains. Passing through small towns you realise just how much info your eyes are taking in without you realising it - the smallest words written in English leap out at you from the
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