Sunday, September 11, 2005
A MONTH TREKKING NEAR BURMA
We leave Kunming tonight for a 9 hour bus ride to Tengchong. From there we will be hiking up a mountain pass along the Yunnan/Burma border. The plan is to stay in local villages and with hilltribes along the way. Over the next month we will work our way up to the Tibetan regions of Yunnan and Szechuan. We arrive in Gongshang in a few weeks and trek over a mountain pass at 14,000ft to a village where we catch a bus back to Kunming or Chengdu or Xi'an. TBD. I'm told there's internet access at least in Tengchong and in a few other places along the way. I consolidated my pack for the trek, down from 50lbs to 25.
Chinese toilets are interesting. A hole in the ground that one squats over. I, who normally have the balance of a drunken amputee flamingo have been lucky so far, but there will be funny anecdotes to come.
We leave Kunming tonight for a 9 hour bus ride to Tengchong. From there we will be hiking up a mountain pass along the Yunnan/Burma border. The plan is to stay in local villages and with hilltribes along the way. Over the next month we will work our way up to the Tibetan regions of Yunnan and Szechuan. We arrive in Gongshang in a few weeks and trek over a mountain pass at 14,000ft to a village where we catch a bus back to Kunming or Chengdu or Xi'an. TBD. I'm told there's internet access at least in Tengchong and in a few other places along the way. I consolidated my pack for the trek, down from 50lbs to 25.
Chinese toilets are interesting. A hole in the ground that one squats over. I, who normally have the balance of a drunken amputee flamingo have been lucky so far, but there will be funny anecdotes to come.
