Tingri & Nyalam

Tingri wasn't really worth the trouble of getting to. We did have a nice little argument with Dawa through one of the hotel employees. He said we had only booked 8 days. We knew we'd booked 9. I don't know why it escalated so much. We only ended up using 7 days total. We were threatening to kick Dawa's wife out of our jeep and just leave her wherever. Threatening to tell Snowland and anyone else who would listen what a shitty driver he was. I don't think the threats were translated.

We decided to go to the nearby hot springs. It was quite nice to actually be warm for a change. We pretended we were now clean and then headed to Nyalam. Lonely Planet says that Nyalam means "Gateway to Hell" in Tibetan. We were no longer worried about hell though having lived through it the day before.

We got to the hotel in Nyalam and the man at the hotel was quite nice. Later though he turned on us and wouldn't heat the guest room for us even though we were his only guests. There was no heating in this place either. I was really sick of being cold all the time. At least Canada has indoor heating in the dead of winter. It's really the only way to make the cold bearable, being toasty warm inside. Anyways, we are sure that Dawa tainted the innkeeper's image of us. He also wouldn't let us watch TV or do anything really. There wasn't much to do in Nyalam that night and we'd promised ourselves we wouldn't use the internet while in Tibet. We ate Nepalese food and shivered in our beds like so many nights before.