Posts Tagged ‘mountains’

Ladakh Chronicles, Part 1 – Intro

April 5th, 2009

a land with soul

When you have a dream, a desire, a wish for something; you are driven by it, you want to achieve it, get it. You do everything you can to make it come true, and when it does… that’s when it happens. You did it, you got it, you made it; now what? When the desire is fulfilled, when goal is achieved, do you get this unsettling feeling? I’ve been having this feeling ever since I came back from Ladakh.

I love to travel and it’s been my dream to visit Ladakh ever since I discovered the joy of travelling. Now that I have been there, I couldn’t get over it. I did what I wanted to do, but now I don’t know what to do.

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Tags: Ladakh, lake, Leh, mountains, Tso moriri
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Ladakh Chronicles, part 3 – Manali-Leh Journey

April 5th, 2009

Mountain Roads, Changing Nature and one incident of AMS

6^th July
Early morning 5′o clock. Cold atmostphere. Hot cup of coffee and Ashok’s warm good morning. Our journey started with only one little problem. The weather was rainy and clouds were covering most of the view. The road was wet and foggy, slowing down our vehicle. I usually like to photograph rainy season, but we all were hoping for bit clearer weather. Prateek said that we should get clearer weather past Keylong or at max Baralachla pass. We had nice filled breakfast before Rohtang pass, I relished on nice double omelet, while Maggi and Jaimin feasted on Parathas and Bhutta (Corn Cob)

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Tags: Acute Mountain Sickness, AMS, Baralachla, Bharatpur, clouds, Debring, Ghata loops, Jispa, Keylong, Khoksar, Ladakh, Leh, manali, Morey planes, mountains, Pang, rohtang, Sarchu, Suraj tal, Tanglangla, Zingzingbar
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