Chapter 14 - Back to Civilization, The Shigar Palace

We had been out of civilization so long that when we got to the Shigar Palace, we started looking for our headlamps because the bathrooms were so dark. Nobody thought of looking for a light switch...and why should we since we had not used one for 15 days. The Shigar Palace Hotel was beautiful. They served us a great lunch even though it was the middle of Ramadan and everyone was fasting. But since we were on travel, we were exempt. They gave us crisp clean raw vegetables which made our eyes pop out and coca cola. Wow.

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We set off from Thungol early in the morning to get a head start on the other expeditions who had stayed the night in Askole, which added another 45 minutes to their schedule. Here we leave the snow capped peaks behind as we race to the gap, where we have been told, a slightly better path has been put in place.

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