The ride to Ganden...

We headed out of town on the road on the south side of the Lhasa River...sadly missing our favorite little pass, but we needed to get moving. We wanted to find the bridge across the river so that we could use it for our return journey when we would definitely take in our favorite little pass. We found the bridge after some lovely road - not that it was easy to miss, it's draped in prayer flags that whip in the wind :) It's a steel decked bridge, wide enough for one vehicle and it makes a racket when anyone drives on it.


We also stopped for a snack at the bridge....deep sea fish oil biscuit anyone??? :)


As we continued on the road we spotted this big girl...she provided much amusement for the next few kms :)


After much moaning from me (I know, again!!!! :) because we were under the impression that Ganden was 40kms from Lhasa (according to LP) and we had passed 46 before we finally got to the turnoff...and it was marked only by a Chinese sign!!!! I had to get the LP out, get irritated because they only listed Ganden in English and Tibetan and I only had a sign in Chinese. Then I found a small section buried in the back of the language section of the LP that was called Gazetteer and it had Ganden in Chinese (whew! :).

A knew just what to do and announced that we were having a food break....ah, that is much better now :) I was also better because I knew we were going to be climbing and I love to climb :):):)

A was having issues of her own....she was threatening to ride backwards up the pass and threw this rapper pose and several gangsta quotes out which had us laughing and nearly falling off our bikes *again* :) You can see the road winding it's way up the hill behind "gangsta girl" :) It was also at this point that we both admitted that we were truly insane. This is the second time the lack of oxygen has had this effect on our brains :)


This is hard work!!!!


Looking back down...


More rest!


We have come a long way...


Getting closer....




Finally the top!