Part 41 - Route notes from Shambling toward Lhakhang Dz via Serjong La

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SUMMARY:
The diarist describes views of Hashina, a possible route up the Kuru Chu to Lhakhang Dz in Tibet (said to be a four-day journey in July–September by tom-tom), and a day's road from Shambling past a pass toward Diukkhar and a Dzong. Snow at the lower limit of Abies is minimal, rice and makai are growing, and the writer met a man who had been with them at Singhi Dzong in 1933.

CONTENT:
The difficulty will be to get an open space trunk. Here we can see
Hashina, which is no higher than this place (6400'). The Serjong La
even does not get the height of the fir trees, and fancy even Tin
may only be at the very bottom limit. We must wait and see, as
no one tells the same thing about these places - perhaps because
they have never seen. Many have told me all about these places,
and when I finally ask "have you ever seen them?" they answer "no".
From here a possible path goes up the Kuru Chu to Lhakhang Dz in
Tibet, and they told it is 4 hard days journey. In the 5 or 6 months
(July Aug and I expect Sept) they can go by tom-tom. So there must
at any rate be a path of some kind up there. All the tales
of deep snow are much exaggerated. There appears to be little, or
none at the lower limit of abies. Today's road rises
easily from Shambling to a pass at m 2, thence nearly level
till Diukkhar can be seen, then steep down to m 6 and finally
up to the Dzong. Rice and makai are both growing here now. There
are several very big houses and quite extensive cultivation. I have
still to have talks with the locals to find out what I can. —
I met a man here who was with us in Singhi Dzong in 1933 and