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Ladakh Chronicles, part 2 – Prologue

April 5th, 2009

From City to City, from City to Mountains

4th July
Above The Clouds - My First FlightExciting morning. Finally I was going to Ladakh. After years of dreams and wishes, finally I was going there. I did not sleep in the night. I was counting hours, minutes and seconds. It was all so overwhelming that I couldn’t feel any excitement for the fact that I was flying for first time in my life. I’ve always been impulsive traveler. When I felt like going away, I would pack by bags and catch a closest train to my destination. No reservations, no booking and no planning. As Maggi was in-charge of our travelling arrangements (for that matter all other arrangements) we had booked plane tickets and everything. So this was my first time flying and for some reason I wasn’t feeling anything amazing about it. I had much bigger excitement in my heart.

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Ladakh Chronicles, part 10 – Epilogue

April 5th, 2009

A time to return home

18th July
Mountains around Leh airportEven though we got up on time, it was just strange. Our feet were heavy and hands were slow as we made our preparations to leave for the airport. Our pickup van was right on time, and uncle Mr. Tsering (owner of the guest house) and Zombie (Sunil, housekeeper at guest house) helped us with the luggage. Sitting in the van, there was only one thought running through our mind, “why the hell are we leaving?” Maggi was the first to break the silence and cry, “I don’t want to go home, let’s stay here only”.

All we could do was just chuckle and murmur, “yeh, I wish”.

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