The constraints I am currently facing are that to make use of my Airmiles, I need to fix an end date for the overall trip. To do this I need to have a rough idea of what I want to do in the main area of the trip - Northern China - and how I am going to proceed on from there. This will give be the basis for a rough time spent in each part of the journey and hence the window in which to book air tickets. Contacting specialist travel agents has led me to the conclusion that one of the things it has occurred to me to do - a kora round Mt Kailash - is not probable. The combination of cost (about 20,000 yuan); duration (needs a trip of 21 days); the need to have a driver and guide for all the time I am there; and the permits and visas needed (a Chinese Visa, and four special permits - as it is so remote, and within an area the Chinese keep very strict control of) all mean that it is probably a no-go. As a consequence I am looking at what I might do in and around Amdo and the Qinghai Plateau.
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