Record of Facebook convos II

O: Found it! First, look at this:
dhaka-nathulapass

Make sure you're ...in terrain view and zoom in, there's a road that crosses the border. Follow that for a bit until you eventually get to Yadong

at which point:
nathulapass-lhasa

Then, get this, train it from Lhasa to Xining. Then depends if we want to go to Xian (terracotta army, f'shizzle) or straight to Urumqi/Turpan, thence to the 'Stans....


pekingtoparis

D:You're insane. I love it. Let's read up to see whether these roads actually exist, then I'm in.

Though I do notice that road 2 seems to go into (or perhaps constitute) the Bhutanese border. The $200-a-day-for-a-visa Bhutanese border.

we go to the terracotta army because I want to see the photos you take of them.... See more

My task for this trip is to come up with a better name for this region than 'the stans'. I predict this will get me hired by the Economist on our return.

O: that route doesn't go through Bhutan, but you have to zoom right in before you can see it skirts the border... that said, at the moment the border is only open to indian and chinese nationals, though this might be changing this year. otherwise, it's back to the Nathu La Pass in Nepal/Tibet...

and by Nathu La I mean not Nathu La, as that's the Sino-Indian one.
You know what I mean.
I have a book now. It's pretty.