Start with the bad news. The Chinese in their wisdom have come up with a new rule for Tibet. Nationals have to be in a minimum party of 4 people, so the 3 Canadians, 1 Australian, 1 Dane and 1 American do not qualify. They will have to leave the truck in Northern China and rejoin us in Nepal. As you can imagine this has not gone down too well but their is nothing that can be done about it.
The good news is that following the bad news we visited two wine makers. At the first they scooped the red and white from vats buried in the ground but we didn,t like it much. We also tried the clear 60 proof alcohol called grapa which blows your head off. Having bought nothing we headed off for the second where he plied us with copious amounts of red, white and grapa with salty cheese and bread. Needless to say having got us drunk we bought loads. The drive to find a bush camp was more like a party which carried on when we arrived. A few sore heads in the morning.
We have now entered Azerbaijan a very male orientated country which is a bit odd. The border crossing was not too bad, just a couple of hours. We have arrived at our next stop a Karavanaserai. That is a huge courtyard surrounded by balconies with rooms, quite beautiful. we had a quick walk in to town to change some currency but it is very hot, well up in the 30's. By much hand waving I have arranged to have some washing done which is a bit of a relief in the heat. Julia is off to look around a palace I am off to put my feet up. Tomorow we drive off to bush camp at an active volcanoe and then off to Baku to try and get a ferry over the Caspien sea. There are no timetables so easier said than done.
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