Blogs from Leh, Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, India, Asia - page 4

The Himalaya Insight approach to Ladakh from Kashmir Valley via Kargil is approx. 434 Km, which remains open for traffic from early June to November. The most dramatic part of this road journey is the ascent up the 11,500 feet 3,505 m high Zoji-La, the pass in the Great Himalayan Wall that serves as the gateway to Ladakh. The J & K State Road Transport Corporation (J&K SRTC) operates regular Deluxe and Ordinary bus services between Srinagar and Leh on this route with an overnight halt at Kargil. Taxis (cars and jeeps) are also available at Srinagar for the journey. Groups can charter Deluxe and A-class buses for Leh, Kargil or Padum (Zangskar) from the J & K SRTC at Srinagar. Manali to Leh - Since 1989, the 473 km. Manali-Leh road has been serving as ... read more

Day 6 & 7 – 31.07.2010 & 01.08.2010: These two days were spent in sleeping, eating and wandering around the lanes. Leh, the district headquarter of Ladakh, is situated at the foot of Namgyal Hills in the valley north of the Indus River. At that time of the year the temperature was somewhere around 20 to 25 degree Celsius. But it was told that it ranges from minus 40 in winters to plus 35 in summers. The road from the airport runs straight to the end of the main bazaar. Leh is not difficult to navigate around, with narrow intersecting lanes and one main street leading to the old, dilapidated palace of the king. Fort Road is where most restaurants and guest houses are. As we got the accommodation at Kangri for two days only, we ... read more

The Leh-Manali road is the only overland route in to Leh from the south and is only open during the summer months thanks to the nasty Himalayan winter. Most sane people do the 20 hour trip over 2 days with a nice stopover in a village along the way. We decided to buy our bus tickets the day before we wanted to leave and found the bus companies were sold out so we had to book into an 11 passenger mini-bus that left at 12:30am that night and did the whole stretch in one go. We prepared for the trip as best we could with crackers, cookies and plenty of music and met the bus at midnight. There was plenty of leg room and we had the premium spot right behind the driver with a full ... read more

We arrived in Leh after a comfortable one hour flight from Delhi. Leh is in the Kashmir region in the far north of India and we had heard that it was a place you can't miss this time of year. Well, it certainly didn't disappoint. The city lies at an elevation of 3700m in the Ladakh Range of the Himalaya Mountains and the high elevation desert scenery is absolutely beautiful. It's a popular spot in July and August as the weather can be tricky the rest of the year. Many people come to Leh for trekking but as we are not really set up for this type of travel this time, we decided that we would mostly take it easy while we were here. It's a good thing we didn't have any big plans because we ... read more

bin seit kurzem in Leh, Ladakh auf 3300m, ist traumhaft hier. alleine die Fahrt war ein Traum, 2 Tage 29 Std. fuer ca. 450km nur ueber Passstrassen und durch Hochtaeler, ueber drei ueber 5000m hohe Paesse, einer sogar 5300m, riesige Berge, durch Gletscher, Schnee, Hochwuesten, karge Berglandschaften, durch Nomadengebiete, einspurrige Matschstrassen und der Abgrund immer nah.... Unfassbar abwechslungsreich, schoen und anstrengend. Bin jetzt in der kleinen Hauptstadt Leh, atemberraubend schoen, Himalaya vor der Nase, alte Burgen, viele Tempel, und andere Buddhistische Anlagen, nette Menschen, schwer diese Schoenheit in Worte zu fassen. Mehr demnaechst. Hier meine neue Handynummer, da die alte in Kaschmir (Ladakh ist ein Teil davon) nicht mehr geht. 0091 95 96965947. Sollte ab Samstag funktionieren. Viele Gruesse an euch alle. ... read more