We left in the dark at 7am for a long day. The first pass was just practice, only 4350 m. The road sides were sprinkled with small villages made of same type one storey houses. People would work on field or attending cattle (Goats or Yaks). Obviously when the animals were not grazing they were crossing the road.
Then suddenly the mountain summits appeared, it was a dream, the Everest was in front of us snow covered, shining against a blue sky, surrounded by several 8000 m plus, mountains.
The Mount Everest from the road 318 It was breathtaking but serious business was still ahead: two passes: the first one at 5020 m,
Passing at 5,137 m
The pass at 5,137 meter with prayer-flags"the next at 5,137 from which we could see again the 8,000m mountain range. It was incredible, that was the good part, the not so good was to descend a vertical drop of 2,600m
The rough beauty of the scenery made us forget the real danger of this descent. The vertical drop from the edge of the road was at least 1000m, the road was narrow. No one had seen such a valley in their life, and it was going down and down, untill everything stoped. The road was narrowed to one lane because of a collapse and we spent a couple of hours waiting.Then it moved again and we reached our hotel located in a frontier-like town build on the slopes of the road just before the Nepalese border. Essentialy money changers and brothels, but it could not spoil our incredible journey through China. These 17 days leave us a memory of scenic beauty, kindness of people and massive infrastructure development. Bye bye China, tomorrow Nepal
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