The Monsoons Win: Onward to Africa
June 20th 2008 The monsoons effectively halted any hiking in northern India and made transportation really difficult. A guy I was talking to said it was the worst rains in the 13 years he had been here. The 10 hour ride to Manali has reportedly been taking 24 hours because of all the washouts. The trip to Leh, in good weather, is supposed to be 3 days; we didn't want to experiment with how the monsoons would inc
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