Part 34 - Route notes and bird observations from Kense to Tsari Valley via Langong and Pa La

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SUMMARY:
Notes bird sightings near a high pass and outlines a dated itinerary from Kense to Langong, Pa La, Paba, and Kyimdong Dzong. Summarizes a route from Pachakshiri via Langong and the Pa La along the Tsangpo valley to Nang Dzong, then up the Sipha Chu to Tso Bunang below the Sur La in the Tsari Valley, with a Tit-warbler noted and a return to Sanga, citing diary pages and Ibis references.

CONTENT:
Blackbird just N of pass. 14,000'
Grandala just S of pass 15,000'

L. July 16 - To Kense.
L. July 17 To Langong - Good description of journey

L. H. Route

Ludlow to Langong diary 151-152-153 - July 17.
July 18. to Pa La, Loba
July 19-20 Paba.
July 21. to Kyimdong Dzong.

L. Ibis 47. From Pachakshiri we returned to Kyimdong Dzong by an unexplored route via Langong & the Pa La 15,500. Then marched along the Tsangpo valley to the vicinity of Nang Dzong. The hot dry valley of the Tsangpo was a welcome change after the perpetual rainfall of Pachakshiri. From Nang Dzong we turned south & ascended the Sipha Chu valley to a chain of lakes lying at the foot of a pass called the Sur La (15,700 ft) leading into the Tsari Valley. The neighborhood of these lakes is called Tso Bunang. In the surrounding conifer woods we discovered a Tit-warbler (Lophobasileus elegans subsp.), a Palaearctic point I had expected to see so far to the south. - In Ibis 204 - Aug 20 diary. From Tso Bunang we returned to Sanga