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Huge Mani Wall

The size amazed us, we had crossed the Himalayas and entered a buddhist world


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Blog: Trans-Himalayan Highway: Manali - Leh
Date: June 30th 2007

We had wanted to cycle over the Himalaya from Nepal into Tibet but it was not possible, instead we devised a longer route to China that will eventually take us over the Karakorum from Pakistan, but like crazy fools there was still this nagging desire to cycle over the Himalaya, especially since we had not even managed to get up in among the mountains in Nepal and had then been forced to skip Uttar ... read more


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