Changla Pass & Pangyong lake

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December 24th 2006

Published: December 24th 2006

We wanted to go to a lake called Pangong and that took us over the top the world and third highest motoring road on earth at 5300 meters - Changla Pass. Pangong is 60KM from there. Our driver asked me if he could bring his two sisters with us as they have not seen Pangong lake. I said ok and those two girls were wonderful and innocent country girls added bit of fun. One of them developed travel ... Read Full Entry

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Chasing the blue hole 2

The weather behind us was dark, drizzling and murky. It kept chasing us threatening to catch up and we found this pristine and beautiful blue hole on the horizon in front. It looked like thrilling chase of the blue yonder albeit in slow speed up the snow covered roads. Fascinating stuff with all those sumptuous sceneries all around.

Chasing the blue hole 3

Cheerful Blue sky

We finally made it - escaped the bad weather and ventured into the open blue space.

Our cab driver and his sisters

Cup of Chai in Changla Pass

Ram-shackled tin hut tea shop with central heating boiler. we had a lovely chai - the spiced milk-tea. Great refreshment for the frozen and shivering soul, indeed.

Stupa with prayer flags in Changla

Stupa is a small Buddhist shrines commonly seen on the road side in Buddhist areas. All those colorful flags are prayer flags left by the passing by drivers praying for safe journey in this snowy wilderness. They need all the good luck they can get, I can vouch for that after our adventurous trip.

Comming down from Changla

Our jeep hired for the trip

Narrow and tracherous road

Narrow and tracherous road down hill

Majestic boulders on the road side

Majestic boulders close up

Sparse snow down hill

Road leveling out

Dazzeling display of clouds and shadows

Dazzeling display of clouds and shadows 2

Road workers on the way

Buddhist prayer flags

Solang village in the valley

Clouds and shades upon the Solang valley

Children at play in Solang valley

25th December 2006

lurker
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WOW
Wow that is beautiful.

27th April 2010

Kavita Kumble
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Visit to Changla pass
Well, we took a trip in April to Ladakh, however the weather went temperamental, and we reached changla pass, but due to the heavy snowfall could not move to travel to the lake. The route was really dangerous and we were nervous as hell....however the sights were mindblowing and out of the world!!

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