Drowning in the sprawling crowds that flood most of India, and gasping for unadulterated air, Kim finally goes bananas and decides to get lost in remotest Himalaya. Tucked away in the most isolated Himalayan India neighbouring Tibet is the region of Spiti. Location: The middle of nowhere, Population: sparse, Inhabitants: goats, donkeys, yaks and maybe the occasional homo sapien. Perfect :) Comfy and overly-well fed, I pottered around in the quaint hill town of Shimla for a week, and it was here I met the amiable bunch of travellers who ultimately I was to go trekking with. What was I getting myself in for exactly? I can't say I really knew. Himalayas, yeah I've heard of them... The trek lasted for 5 days and involved another 4 days of jeep travel just to get there and
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