Another long drive day, leaving at 07:30 and not setting up bush camp until it was dark at approx. 20:00. The drive took us again through some spectacular scenery and up several passes with the highest at just over 5000m. In the morning we stopped at Zongang which is a town closed to foreigners (it is thought to be too politically active by Beijing). When we stopped we were escorted to a supermarket (& Post Office) by the police as we were not allowed to go around the town by ourselves. The Truck was also escorted when leaving the town.
The drive did not take us to a town for lunch, but instead we had snacks & sandwiches on the Truck.
In the afternoon we briefly stopped at a small town – it was the most untidy yet.
The road for most of the day was bad – either being rebuilt or repaired as it snaked around the mountains – the views were amazing, but the ride was slow and difficult and we were held up in several places by trafic trying to negotiate the road works.
We were also held up for a little while by a broken down bus before we ascended another pass and eventually found a place to set up the bush camp.
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