In the morning, we hiked down (for a change) through the fields and mountains, to where our Land Rover was waiting. View image

Cellular phones rank right up there as one of the great inventions of the modern world when traveling. Not for us...but them! Everyone in China carries a cell phone, and they work in the mountains. A good thing because on the way back to to "Shangri-La", Khampa called us to say that our flight was cancelled on the following day and we would have to fly to Kunming that night.

They arranged for a guide to meet us at Kunming airport , a hotel room for the night, and transfers back to the airport. You really need a guide (unless you speak Chinese) in these areas. Few airline personnel spoke English, in Kunming, and it turned out to be complicated reissuing the tickets for an earlier flight.