Excellent, we have a new motographer on MCM and clearly you are here to show us how it's done! Good to see your adventure is finally underway, but what happened to your buddy tzu ting? (is that her name?)

Not sure about the unrest in litang, we were out there (exactly) one year ago and it seemed quite calm, but that region is so volatile that that means nothing. All i can say is when you approach the town from the south have a look for these wee yurts about 3km before you hit town. We stayed in them for 30RMB a night and it was way better than anything you'd find in town. Maybe see if the folks there remember 3 guys on XTRs that passed by a year ago, we stayed up and had beers together that night! Also note that it was -5 that night due to the altitude. Sleeping at 4000m is weird.



Best of luck on the next leg!