Perspective on the crossing

A Bridge too Far?

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September 7th 2010
In September this year (2010), Mark Takefman (my biker mate) and I visited what I now call the Great Himalayan Bike Odyssey, riding our Royal Enfield Bullets from Delhi to Leh and back via Spiti Valley. In our second week we were staying in Kibber, a village parked high on the northern side of Spiti Valley, which claimed to be the highest habituated village in: where? The world? Asia? I can’t ... 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