Road up the mountains

Himalayan India

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June 17th 2008
Sunday 15 June Left Jispa at the unearthly hour of 5am to drive over many high passes to Leh. We left early because some of the rivers flowing over the road become fuller in the afternoon due to the heat of the day melting the glacial snow higher up the mountains. This did not work out as expected as when we got to one of the first rivers there was a jeep & a truck that had tried to pass the ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more