Tachienlu is 8,500 feet high and Ae ise to Wali'was 1,500 ft. The road forthe first three miles, followed the main highway into Tibet and formed Part -of the great.road constructed CCnossine THE YANGT2N IN A BKIK ConAcLE his downfall. The hot sulphur'
at Wali are very popular: and during the summer months are the rendezvous for Chinese, Tibet-{ and foreign camping parties.
The Tibetans are very fond of the hot springs and not infrequently they have their tents around them, spending the bathing, drinking, jand feasting. "In a land like Tibet} where the bath-tub is unknown and ip is only beginning to be approciated, these hot sulphur springs are) indeed an unmixed blessing. On a hot sunny day a wild and woolly nomad will lie in one of those hot springs for hours and in another part of the spring soak his heavy, greasy, sheep-skin garment, and then for more hours he will bask in the sunshine, eating his tsamba and drinking his butter-tea, while hig garments dry in the sun. The three springs at Wali need the addition of cold water from the stream before they can be entered and when cold water is removed the springs are enveloped in sulphur vapour. Towering above the springs rise the eternal snow mountains of the Wali range. some of the peaks rising well over 20,000 feet, and below the peaks lite immense forests of pine and fir.
The First Das first dey's travel, be it long or short, is always more or less, a bit of a mix up and things are difficult to find the first night away from home. For example, the first night, we opened four different boxes mere-_ ly hunting for a boiled egg... The' fact that everything fs carried" by animals and necessitates every single bit of luggage being securely tied Ins
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