DAY 46 - The MKRIDE team safely traveled from Shigatse to a small farmhouse on the outskirts of Tingri. As we moved further south from Lhasa and then on to Shigatse the landscape began to change and the snow-capped Himalayan range began to appear. Most of the day was spent on the 318 high-way which actually starts in Shanghai and runs right through the country, through Tibet to the Nepal border. We stopped at a plaque that was a marker for the 5000km marker for the highway, meaning that it was a 5000km straight shot from rural Tibet to Shanghai. It was a bit exhausting in Shegar where we had a police checkpoint and a military checkpoint within about 5km of each other, the two checkpoints combined added over an hour to our journey that day. Exhausting bureaucracy.