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Diary Entry 1 Travelling to tibet This is a photo taken of the "friendship" highway, one of the highest roads in the world, while whilst I was on my way to Lhasa. I boarded the train from Bejing to Lhasa this morning, getting ready for a 46 hour journey, across some of the most barren, yet beautiful scenery I have ever seen. Tibet really is a "shang-rila, at the roof top of the world". The train that im travelling on isnt the most fancy piece of machinery I have ever seen, i paid 1262 yuan for this seat, its supposed to be comfortable, but I havent been able to feel my arse for the last 24 hours because of my rock solid seat. The thought of circulation failure in my bum soon fades as I start seeing the open plateaus of Tibet. Tibet essentailly is. on massive platueu on top of the world. the greenest grass you will ever see, mixed with the grey, rock slopes and snowy peaks, and the bluest sky, makes for one of the most amazing scenerys I have ever seen in my life.

The scenery starts to fade tho, because for some reason, my eyes started blurring. At first I had no idea what was wrong with me, then realised, ahhh, im starting to experience my first bout of AMS. Coming from australia, im used to living at a much lower level altitude. Im almost 8kms up from my normal altitude. AMD was quite possible one of the most horrible experiences of my life. I started getting a killer headache, blurred vision and shortness of breath, and before i knew it, i was out cold.