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Ladakh Chronicles, part 8 – Tso Moriri

April 5th, 2009

God’s mirror in the mountain

14^th July
We got up early and got ready. As the drive to Tso Moriri was a long one, we were to leave early. We left our guesthouse at around 9:30. As Prateek wasn’t there, Qayyum (from Plan Himalayas) was going to be with us on the Tso Moriri camping trip. Though, three of our members had gone, our vehicle was full. Besides Amjad (driver) and Qayyum, there was our cook and bags of food supply. We had kind of a lazy start till Upshi, as the weather was a bit dull… both outside and inside our vehicle. We really hoped that this drive and Tso Moriri, to be really good to sucker us back into that traveler’s mood.

We took a small halt at Upshi, as Qayyum and Amjad had left without breakfast. While they were having breakfast we also decided to have another round of tea. A nice hot herbal tea was a good idea indeed, as it helped a bit to awaken our senses.

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Tags: Bramhini ducks, Changspa, Chumathang, Hymia, Indus, Janchat Stampa, Kiang, Kiari, Korzak, Ladakh, Leh, Likche, Morey planes, Pashmina goat, Purple mountains, Rebo, salt lake, sulfur mountain, Tanglangla, Tiri, Tso Kar, Tso Kiagar, Tso moriri, Upshi, Yak wool
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Ladakh Chronicles, part 9 – Rafting in Indus

April 5th, 2009

A new experience in the rapid waters

16^th July
As decided earlier, we got ready for our last adventure in the land of mountains. We were going to finally experience the Indus river, which had so gracefully welcomed us to Leh. The rafting guys came on time to pick us up, and we moved to pick-up the other co-passengers. Our would-be rafting partners were, let’s say a rather international couple. A German girl ‘Anne’ and an Israeli guy ‘Moshe’. Anne was a nurse by profession while Moshe was an engineer. They were visiting India for their honeymoon and had a quite an adventurous trip planned. Rafting was the first activity on their itinerary while it was our last on this trip.

As we reached our destination, i.e. starting point for our rafting trip, it turned out that there was a mix-up of plans for them. Apparently, they had signed up for rafting on Zanskar stream which is bit more higher and for intermediate level rafting. Zanskar is rated as 4+ grade rapids, while the one we were doing was 2+ to 3 grade rapids (starter level). So after clearing up the issue with the rafting organizers they had to shift their plan, on the later hour of the day, while we were put on with bunch of Hyderabadi guys. I was thinking, this is going to be a drag… “why do I never get a group of girls on my trip? All guys, I mean, come on”. But eventually, we all got acquainted to each other well and this bunch turned out to be quite an entertaining and a sporting group. They introduced themselves as Bharat, Tanmoy, Ravi, Karthick.

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Tags: Indus, Ladakh, Leh, magnetic hill, Rafting, rapids, Zanskar
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