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Sunday 2005-09-25 - Xiahe, China
Also Buddhist country
The last stretch of the road before we arrive in Xiahe is nice and smooth again. We’re staying at the best hotel in town: the Overseas Tibetan Hotel (Hua Qiao Fandian), owned by a Tibetan. The whole place is attractively decorated in Tibetan style — it seems the paintings were done by some of the monks from the Labrang monastery — and there’s an excellent restaurant with a Chinese and a Nepali cook; our rooms have a private bathroom (with warm water for a few hours in the morning and the evening). Last but not least: in the lobby are three workstations providing Internet access for a reasonable price (5Ұ per hour). The restaurant is busy, it seems to be the best place in town: people staying at other hotels often come here to eat.
From the roof of the hotel one has a nice view of the Labrang monastery, the reason for our stay in Xiahe. Climbing the steps isn’t all that easy though: we’re at 2890m now — and not acclimatized to such a height yet. Slowly, slowly does it.
After dinner, after a long wait (the three stations are almost constantly occupied), I catch up a bit with my blog.
