Travel blog by a global nomad
Call me naive, but I don’t think I’ve ever experienced snow and thunder at the same time! I’m racking my brains, but most of the time I have experienced snow its been in the polar regions or in the mountains of North America/Europe. I know there can’t be thunder in the polar regions (or above [...]
Last night, around 11.15pm, the phone in my hotel begins to ring. And ring – and ring! I can accept that friends and family may not realise what time zone I am in and try to call me at a weird hour – except I had not told anyone where I was and those who [...]
Wow! Its probably been about 8 months since southern Tibet saw any rainfall and the air is just filled with dust after the extended dry period!
Each day dawns calm, maybe a few white cumulus clouds but the sky is clear as is the air around. But the nearby Tsangpo River is a dustbowl waiting for [...]
Maybe its the wider roads, maybe its the norm, but traffic on Tibetan roads seems if anything, more frightening than on Beijing roads where the shear volume of traffic slows everyone down!
In Shigatse, a bustling town with a rumoured population of about 100,000, the main roads are wide – a very generous 4 lanes wide [...]
Nearing the end of my second full day at 3,925m, I think I’m doing pretty well! I don’t know whether to attribute that to the diamoxin altitude sickness (taken in the preventative capacity as opposed to the “I’ve got it and now I have to get rid of it” capacity) or whether this is one [...]
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