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Good and easy reading start. The adventure is about to begin

Aya, thinks Cai Dewei should be proud of her son.

Yong and Aya take the leave of Yongs father and board the train.

Local burial traditions in Tibet leaves the reader speechless.

A dramatic love story.

Back in Tibet, exploring and under surveillance.

Apparently all men of China can cook, and take great pride and joy in the endeavor as well.

Yong and Aya explore the herbs of the city of Dali, and get busted by the police.

Aya and Young leaves Sanya. In Liuzhou Aya has an abortion.

Yong has a really good period as an artist and as a trader.

Young travel some more and meet some interesting Babas.

The Maverick child. Aya tells about Yong student years and he explains about Chomolungma, Mt Everest which he try to climb along with the Sherpas, but they have explosions in one of the liquid-fuel cylinders and decide to make an emergency descent.

Young gets caught in a flood and gets to the hospital. He spends the night outside with some Tibetans and looking back into his university years he decides to go to Tibet to study.

Memories upon Yong's struggle to be taken as a student at the university and his approach, interaction and view upon fellow students and teachers are reviewed.

Yong reminisce over his struggle to grow as an artist and the legendary Bald Shen.

The execution is brought forth and the corps is left without dignity as the silk shirt is robbed by an old man.

The communist capture Ceng Qingcheng, he is counter-revolutionary and brought to a sentencing rally.

Yong reveals misconception towards the communist party's hospital as he is healed by an old blind man named Zhu, from a severe leg injury.

Ariving in Chengdu. What happens here, well qoute; "At night, we drink Brandt out of cocobuts with the others and dream hasish-inspired dreams."...."we hear the geckos clicking, "

They leave Tibet. A little trouble with the truck, as the wanna cross MT Erlang.

They leave Tibet. A little trouble with the truck, as the wanna cross MT Erlang.

Things move slowly forward for our friends, monks, landscape, cars, peaks and reaching another small town.

Things move slowly forward for our friends, monks, landscape, cars, peaks and reaching another small town.

Young and Aya get the experience of being "dang tuan zhang ", something that happens in Tibet and means to wait around like like this is a broken-down truck or car for a mechanic to come and save you.

Aya and Young continue their escape through Tibet, and manage to get a lift with a vehicle where Young is mistaken or made into an South Korean.

Aya and Yong continue their escape, now headed for Chengdu.

In Lahsa life is tough, martial laws as they arrive, Yong spends time in prison, starvation amongst the inhabitants, hui and Han people fight and horrifying episodes besides the river banks.

Aya and Yong escape on train to Tibet.