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Road to Leh

2nd highest motorable pass (5300m)
The Last Indian Leg

July 18th 2007
There are two ways to get to Leh, the capital of Ladakh in northwest India. You can fly in or go by road. We chose the road option from Manali and a bus as our vehicle of choice. It’s about a twenty hour journey through the Indus Valley so we stopped overnight at a camp site in the desert. Unfortunately, the whole thing turned out to be somewhat of a scam. We had to be at the bus an hour and a h ... read more
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Indian Flag The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more
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