Making the butter tea

Chris' joyful day! (Nov 2007)

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November 9th 2007
After the TLG trek we headed off on an early bus (we never get any lie ins on this tour!) to Zhongdian, a Tibetan village. We hadn't had a shower and were pretty tired from the trek so we were looking forward to a nice hot shower when we got there. A lovely bumpy bus ride with a mental driver and we got to Zhongdian. We had arranged to go and visit a local school and a yak farm that afternoon ... read more

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