Yakkity yak

We made it to Tibet, and have been here for a couple of days now trying to get acclimatised to the altitude - it's 3600m here in the capital Lhasa which means there is 40% less oxygen than normal and so those of a medical bent will understand how rubbish my sats of 85% are (brought along the pulse ox from work which has provided loads of amusement so far). Not there yet in terms of maxi altitude, Everest base camp where we're headed in a couple of weeks is around 5200m so I think we're going to wuss out and take some diamox as I've already spent the past 2 days with a headache, think some of that is due to the ridiculously hard mattresses though.

Anyway, today we had a look round another temple/monastery which are all sort of blurring into one now, but we've found a great cafe next to the hotel that has internet access and fantastic carrot cake so are pretty much sorted. Off to see the Potala tomorrow, then going a bit more rural to the big lake Nam Tso where we do the first bit of camping which should be a laugh.

Not done any shopping yet as most of it is tat, will see what I've got left at the end and get a few bits in Nepal. Rather annoyingly my old mobile phone contract has finished but the update for the new sim card hasn't arrived since I'm not in the UK, so I am phone-less for the moment so don't anybody bother trying to call or text me! I'm keeping my old number though so hopefully it will work once I get back home next month.

Going to go now as think we're heading off for dinner - hope all is well with everyone!