Early next morning after breakfast, we took a drive further ahead from one high village to another high altitude village of Spiti valley, Demul. After witnessing two magnificent villages, I had not set any grand expectations for this one in terms of beauty and remoteness. I knew it would turn out to be just as beautiful as the other two if not more. But what I saw completely threw me off in oblivion. At 14,430 feet, Demul redefined remoteness and promised unbounded solitude. Home to less than 50 families, living in utter isolation, this quaint village, cut off from the rest of the world, resembled a state of utopia. Our homestay was situated right in the end towards the corner in isolation. The village amid its patchwork fields producing barley and millet,
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