Bus to Kangding

22nd July 2006 Kangding ,Sichuan ,China
So time to move on and start putting some bus miles under my belt.
I booked a ticket to Kangding but found that the bus was canceled in the morning.
No problem just two busses then changing at Ya'an turning 8 hours into over 11.
After ya'an you start climbing through valies and gorges and it's quite beutiful.
You start to leave the smoke stacks behind, but it is still misty. There hasn't been clear visibility since I got to Beijing. This has been partly blamed on polution and there are big chimneys pumping out a steady stream of smoke just about everwhere but I think the country is a misty place aswell.
At an altitude of over 2600m this place is plesently cooler.
There is a mix of tibetan people here as well as han chinese (the majority people of china making up over 90%)

Chicken transport,
In indonesia chickens live a pretty free life wandering whereever they please etc.
But when it's time to be transported it's into the huge array of tiny cages build on a custom vehicel. Can't reach the top slots, just chuck the chicken head first and if it bounces off the partition between cages no bother just try again.

Here it's tie them together by the feet in bunches of about 10 and bring them on the roof of the bus, I thought they were dead ones at first but no only nearly.
Then chuck them down to the ground from the roof, ohh look one of them layed an egg in transit, sure you can crack that open and eat it on the spot, nice snack.
Ah it's a chickens life.
Still not turning veggie though!