The way north, or a taste of Tibet

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After the two days in the jiuzhaigou we went back by 2 hours drive to Songpan. A nice small town with guesthouses shel ha tahat. the center is mukaf homa. Realxing tea houses , local women in traditional clothes, mix of tibetian and chines muslems.
The next morning we took an early bus to Zoige in our way to Langmusi. (Maya and Shaked stayed there for a horse treck, that they'll be sorry for later). The total trip should be 9 hours. for some unexplained reasom it took only 6 - with a few hours brake on Zoige.

Zoige is al tibetian town. just check the characters in the pictures.

At 5pm we reached Langmusi - a small village which is mainly built around a group of budhist monestrys

Amir had a fever when we arrived and spent the following 36 hours resting in bed, enjoying his sickness. Noa was a bit sick yesterday and we both finish 3 toilet paper rolls a days - due to nazelet.
The hotels are ok - hot water (full of rust so we moved to a better one with less hot water) - between 8-9pm only. Clean sheets (well it is clean - you feel it - but they look like just after the made took it off the rope it fell into the mud) but we are satisfied.
We take our meals at Lesha's resturant - the place for the westrens. Huge dished - good price. especially the yak attack small burger that we share.
The viilage is a mix of muslems - who are the ones who work here. Tibetian monks who just do nothing - even not praying. and "nomands" tibetian "roey adarim" that walk around all day, with the excuse that they wait for the summer to take their herds up to the gresslands. (now every thing is dry and brown).
They walk mitnadnedim from side to side - I am not sure if it is becuase the speicall coat they wear (see pictures) or due to their horses and mottorcycles riding.

They stare at us , we stare at them, one even showed Noa his taunge - but he just took it out one time. he should do it repitatly and fast the idiot- then she could understand what he meant!

As I wrote we eat mostly in Lesha's restaurant (she and her husband are muslems). Since we ran out of cash I changed 100 dollar to yuans. she gave me the outragous rate of 1:7 instead of 1:7.7. I asked for a free apple pie as a compensation. Later in the evenig shaked and maya and idan (mehandes tzair) arrived -we had some tea and Lesha with a big smile told me "come, come , change more dollar - no problem"

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Photos

Pushing the stucked car
the car was stucked in front of the bus, so everyone was asked to get off the bus.

Getting a haircut
Not Shuki Zikri, but...

construction stones
made out of asfalt from a broken road and some Yak's chara.

A monk on his holy work
playing comuter games

Comments

[Eran]

Outragous
Did you get the apple pie?

[Eran]

Amir with friends
Gever, I think I have a very similar picture to the one you are standing with local children, only it is with Bolivian children in the Salar. Anyway, this place looks amazing.