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Himalaya
Day 59: Xangmu to Tingri
In the dim recesses of the room we're served a very good meal of noodles with mushroom, pork, green peppers and lumps of soft, white, doughy Tibetan bread.We're advised to break out the sleeping bags tonight. It will be below zero in our un-heated rooms.
Leaving the fire is the hardest thing, but once across the yard, beneath a bracingly clear night sky, I'm into a pretty little room, so different from last night. Proper curtains, a colourful wall with a frieze of painted flowers. Beside the bed I have a wooden cabinet, also very charmingly painted. By the light of a very dim bulb I can make out leering gods, dragons, clouds, waves and what look very much like flying teeth.
The only setback tonight is that the bottles of wine from Nyalam proved undrinkable.
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PALIN'S GUIDES
- Series: Himalaya
- Chapter: Day 59: Xangmu to Tingri
- Country/sea: Tibet
- Place: Tingri
- Book page no: 142
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