Day 50, 58km: (by Chris)

It was indeed a cold night. The tent froze solid on the outside, along with everything else around us. The peaks were white with snow but the day was glorious. Blue skies and sun - we soon warmed up :-)

The days cycling was perfect: quiet paved road, amazing scenery, mostly downhill and plentiful food for lunch. We managed to find big bread-like pancakes and boiled eggs before we left Shangri-La, which with a tomato made for almost acceptable sandwiches.

That night we found a perfect camp spot on a shoulder of pine trees. Concealed, but a stage to an arena of mountains and valleys.

We ate noodles and snickers bars while admiring the sunset.