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Saturday 2005-10-01 - Amdo, Tibet (China)
Finally, sleep
Once it gets dark, it gets a lot harder to stay awake. We’d been promised an hour or so of sleep once we’d get below 4000m but that never happens: we stay well above that altitude, passing two more high passes.
At 23:55 we come to a larger town, Amdo where the last checkpost before Lhasa is located. But it’s the national holiday in China: all three checkposts on the Qinghai-Tibet Highway are open and unmanned, we just sail straight through.
Now, we can finally go to sleep, we’ve passed all the high passes and it’s another seven hours to Lhasa. I snuggle in with two duvets (one along the drafty window) and soon fall asleep: no problem for me with my short legs!
