recovering the rust on lola before starting again, cycling from zhonglian that i had left a month ago and towards tibet

first passes, first bad roads, first ghompas.... getting closer to tibet but slowly!

between rain and sun I'm now in tibet with those i call the tibetan "gi", best armed soldiers!

rain, rain, always rain sometimes for days - and my saddle bar that breaks!

leaving the main road avoiding lhasa in order to enter the "real tibet", only possible with a bike!

the trick with the small roads is that we never know how it will end! no bridge a u-turn that threw me directly in a psb (police) jail for a night (illegal travel) and a fine!