http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , India , Jammu & Kashmir , Ladakh en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:30 +0000 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:30 +0000 In 2006 I got a chance to see some really fascinating snaps clicked by my cousin Sheetal can39t thank u enuf for introducing me to Ladakh from her earlier trips to Ladakh count 3 times...wheww. Every time she would show me her clicks I would only imagine of going to this place. Came 2007 Ladakh was on my mind but coudn39t plan a trip as I had just started earning the savings were http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/blog-770187.html Leh ladakh Tour Package Leh Ladak Tour Kashmir Leh ladakh Tour PackagePearls Tourism provides wonderful Leh and ladakh our Packages. gives you the opportunity to explore the most sophisticated city in the India. Ladakh is wonderfully placed between the Great Himalayas to the south and the Karakoram mountain range to the north. Ladakh consists of two districts Leh and Kargil. Leh is the seco http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/Leh/blog-769858.html The Hong Kong travel industry39s wellknown with Modern no enjoyable tour Modern China Travel Agency perhaps undergoing reorganization changes has launched a new program Ladakh Little Tibet 14 Days. The tour schedule and service is simply ridiculous. Loyal fans like ourselves who had through this agency toured far and near areas of China were sucked into it. Our fees are by no means http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/Leh/blog-758409.html Dont really remember when we finally agreed enough of dreaming and talking and planning it was the time for action now Not that many people dont do it. But most of the crowd around us called us insane. Some of them still do p But we were determined this time. After my TTF Travel Tourism Fair in February 2012 when we gathered many pamphlets booklets maps and tourist guides on Jamm http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/blog-757057.html The pristine waters flowing in the rivers and streams the large expanses of emptiness surrounded by mighty bare mountains and the mystic blue sky above all blend perfectly together and form a heaven called LehLadakhltem stylemsobidifontstyle normalgtOm Mani Padme Hum the Buddhist mantra adrift with the flow of the wind the aura surrounding you all over LehLadakh. Asking around w http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/Leh/blog-756398.html 400pmUnbelievable. Im sat in a car typing this in the hope that it will help to keep me sane. Its 425pm and we left Drass at around 1100am travelled approximately 25km and have spent the rest of the time waiting at the Police Check Post to be allowed to continue along the road that will take us back to Srinagar. And why have we not been allowed through Because in spite of the fact http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/Leh/blog-756288.html It.. .is...so...fucking...cold. Were stranded in Drass i.e. The Second Coldest Inhabited Place In The World. We woke up this morning to the news that it was snowing in Srinagar. Fuck. We knew that this could mean difficulties getting home so Mustafa decided that we would just run the workshop for the morning and then head off. At around 4pm we reached Drass where with 160km still to go http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/Leh/blog-755983.html Im sitting in a guest house which makes fucking Pine fucking Hotel look like the Hilton and Gaiety Palace look like Dubais BurjAlArab 5 Hotel. A small concrete undecorated room with a double bed and an ensuite bathroom. Double bed and ensuite bathroom give an impression thats altogether too posh but I cant think of any other way to call them. I also have a battere http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/Leh/blog-755847.html Im not dying Hurrah Once again a rollercoaster of a day which started when I was awoken at around 5am by my chest pains. I spent the next two hours in one of those delirious half asleephalf awake states in which my anxieties about possible heart failure had reached such a state that they were actually affecting my breathing I would periodically doze off only to awake gasping for hair. The http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/Leh/blog-755685.html Its a miracle Im even typing this. Ive had three rather large beers whilst Rahim and I watched House on DVD on my laptop and boy is that stuff strong Rahim also partook in spite of his Muslim roots and I think he was as pissed on one bottle as I was on three. What made the whole experience extra special was it was a locally produced beer called Godfather. How apt. One massi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/Leh/blog-755683.html I cant believe it. I simply cant get my head around it. I have just spent 12 hours not 20 in a car with ONE TOILET BREAK And I started the day off with diarrhoea I have never clenched so hard or for so long in my life and its a major breakthrough for the Murphy bladder which has a bad reputation within the immediate family which frankly I put down multiple exchanges between mothe http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/Leh/blog-755117.html Audio Visual travelogue on YouTube httpwww.youtube.comwatchvquKQALrfE4Trek DetailsOct. 10th 2012 Delhi to Bhuntar Himachal Oct. 11th 2012 Bhuntar gt Manikaran gt Barshaini gt Nakthan gt Rudra Nag gt Kheer Ganga Parvati Valley Himachal Trek Barshaini to Kheer Ganga Oct. 11th to Oct. 16th 2012 Kheer Ganga Parvati Valley Himachal Oct. 16th 2012 Kh http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/Leh/blog-752935.html I was really kicked about the bicycle trip. I was going to cycle from Khardung La the world39s highest motorable road 18380 ft to Leh a distance of 37 kms.I reached the cycling company and test rode my bicycle. Since there was still time I thought of having some breakfast while all the others test rode their bicycles. Once all of us there were 3 people from Italy and 2 from Switzerland http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/Khardung-La/blog-752094.html I boarded a shared cab from Leh that left for Pangong Lake at 6 in the morning. The lake is more like a land locked sea shared by the countries of India and China with the larger portion falling in China.It was a five hour ride which started getting beautiful once we crossed Karu and started gaining height. This time unlike the other tourists in the cab I wasn39t bothered about photograph http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/Pangong-Tso/blog-751763.html The previous day was exciting and eventful. We rode our bikes on the SriNagar Leh highway crossed the Magnetic Hill visited the Patthar Sahab Gurudwara one constructed and maintained by the Army the Sangam where the Indus and Zanskar rivers meet rode back to Leh and then took the Leh Manali highway and visited the Hemis monastery. Of course earlier in the day we took the wrong turn and he http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/Nubra/blog-751041.html Not being a person to choose comfort over adventure taking the road to Leh was a decision that came naturally to me. I wanted to enjoy the scenary and since I was travelling alone I took the bus.ltbr stylecolor 000000 fontfamily monospace fontsize 13px lineheight normal gtThe bus left Manali at 11 in the morning. The ride was comforting in the beginning and the scene outside http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/Leh/blog-743841.html The plane is gently descending but we are still crossing miles and miles of high mountains. The mountains are bare rock each with a patch of snow on the north face. This is the very western end of the Himalayas hundreds of peaks over 6000 metres some a lot higher. A small green valley appears and we spiral down in to Leh at 3500 metre above sea level this is Ladakh39s only airport Leh has http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/blog-743749.html ltbr classAppleinterchangenewline gtINDIA is well known for its cultural diversity festivals and rituals. Leh where pure and vibrant atmosphere gives the idea of what heaven could be like is going to celebrate an enigmatic ancient the very old festival at the frozen heights of The Himalayas. The amidst barrenness this land turns into a colorful rainbow and the low populated area becom http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/blog-742865.html On our way into Leh we39d passed through a couple of villages with white hilltop monasteries and lots of white stupas. We decided to head back to the furthest of these. Thicksey is home to one of Ladakh39s biggest monasteries which tops a large rocky hill with layers upon layers of Tibetan style buildings that pretty much form a village. The main gompa of course sits at the very top. Before http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/Leh/blog-741682.html Sitting high in the Indian Himalayas Ladakh is a piece of Tibet outside of Tibet. Leh is at it39s heart.After almost 14 hours the four of us staggered out of the jeep at Leh jeep stand tired with bodies battered and heads aching. In Keylong the night before we had met an older guy at the place we had dinner who comes every year to Leh well tries to in 2010 massive landslides meant that Lad http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/Leh/blog-741681.html