I finished the 5th cycle...
I have now walked 285 km around Kailash.
On this 5th cycle, the demons were clearly with me.

My thoughts were constantly revolving around the burning of the world... literally, the World is not far from it... but here peace could be with me.
I had very specific visions that Germany would be destroyed... I don't know where this came from here in the Himalayas.
Primarily, I want to achieve this here, to leave everything that is bad in me and only my good qualities will remain.

On the first day of the 5th cycle, a lot of pilgrims started their cycle. Many Indian groups with Sherpa guides.
Foreigners go from Darchen to the Derakpu rest area on the first day and sleep there. On the second day, they cross the Dolma La Pass and the DziDüPu rest area, and then back to Darchen on the third day.

I can get from Darchen to the Derakpu rest area in 5-6 hours, where I have breakfast.
From Derakpu, it's 1 hour up to the Dolma La rest area, from there 2 hours to the top of the Dolma La pass, another 1 hour to go down on the other side to the first rest area, which the Tibetans call Seshon.
We usually stay at Derakpu for an hour and leave around 1 am, so by 5 am we are already in the valley on the other side.
From Seshon, it's another 3 hours to reach the DziDüPu temple and rest area.

Yesterday we came over the mountain at a good pace, but to my greatest pain I couldn't buy yogurt from the yak owners who were camping because they had already sold it.
There are a lot of pilgrims now...
We reached the Temple Inn at 8:30 pm. The sun was still shining here until 1:30 pm.
I ordered vegetable noodle soup for dinner, we chatted with the mountain guide and his brother, then I fell asleep before 1:00 pm.
The temple is at an altitude of 4.850 m, despite this I slept for 11 hours...

We didn't leave early in the morning, but we still got back to the hotel in Darchen by noon.

Unfortunately, Kalsang has a cold and his strength is going away.
We took a lot of vitamins and medicine in Darchen.
Let's hope he gets better because tomorrow we would be going to the 6th...

Marriage in Tibet...
I read somewhere before that in Tibet a wife can have more than one husband... I thought I would ask because it seems so unthinkable.
Who else but Kalsan did I ask, my mountain guide?

Kalsan was not surprised by the question, he answered seriously and realistically.
He says this is necessary if the family is well-off and there are two brothers.
In such cases, they do not marry each other individually, but the two brothers marry a woman together... that way the wealth is not divided...

Well, ... but then how do they sleep...?
Kalsan says it's simple, one day with one, the next day with the other...
There's nothing wrong with that, because they are brothers, they were born to the same mother...

And the children?
Well, a family is a family. A mother gives birth to them all.

There are things like this that we have to sit down and digest with a European or Chinese mind, thinking about how it is...
Actually, there is logic, for those who live by it, it doesn't mean anything special.

Supposedly, it also happens the other way around when two sisters marry one man...