It's COLD in dem thar hills!

I will have to admit that we weren't quite prepared for the weather here in Zhongdian. When packing for this trip we figured we would hit mostly late spring weather (15-20 degrees) in the beginning and it would warm up significantly as we went.

Well, looks like we have been moving a little faster than we thought. Zhongdian has really nice weather when the sun is out! It's nice and hot, and you definitely need sunscreen. But the crazy thing is that if you were to go into the shade, you'd need a jacket at least because it's that much cooler. Someone mentioned to us that for every 100 m increase in altitude, temperature decreases 1 degree C. So true...

Unfortunately for us, it's been more cloudy than sunny in our 5 nights here. Temps have been around 10 degrees or less. We've both bought some new clothes (me a set of thermals and J a new fleece jacket) which we wear all day.

I've mentioned before that there is no such thing as central heating (or heating in general I guess) here so the nights are frigid! Thank God our room came with an electric blanket. It definitely makes the nights bearable!