The balcony at the IIA guesthouse in Leh.
Seema and Dishant
Sreekar
The road outside the guest house
More of the road..
One of the buddhist things.
A closer view
A view of Leh
Leh palace over Leh
Das is nicht Deutschland
Some more of Leh
Needs no explanation
Another view of Leh
An odd donkey who kicked the crap out of a parked car...
Sleeping dogs lying...
Leh marketplace
Another view of the marketplace
Dishant and Farida at the German Bakery
Sreekar at the bakery
Dishant and Farida once again
Leh palace and Gompa
hmm..
Dishant, Sreekar, Seema and Farida on the roof of the guesthouse.
Moon over Leh
ditto
Some ladies selling stuff at the marketplace
At the Vagitarian place, waiting for Momos.
The magnificent Stok-Kangri
Stok-Kangri again.
Finally, the hike begins....on the road to Jingchen
Further along.
Dishant at Jingchen
Seema and Farida at Jingchen
The parachute hut at Jingchen
The road to Rumbak
Further along..
Rumbak
Up the valley towards Stok-La
Views from the Rumbak campsite
More views
...
Our tents
Sunset at Rumbak
Horses at Rumbak
Morning at Rumbak
Snow Leopard prints ?
The road ahead
Me
More views of the road ahead
Horses idly grazing while we struggle upwards
Views of Stok-Kangri from the other side
Further up along the trail towards Stok-La
more views
Views of the valley below
Finally, views from the campsite where I fell sick.
A dog in Rumbak village - back down again
Making sure I am still alive
Finally, back home at the guest house in Leh ! The photos in between were taken on Seema's camera.
Stok-Kangri from the Leh bus stand.
Seema and Dishant on the bus to Lamayaru
Sreekar and Farida on the same bus
The steering wheel of the bus
Sreekar and Me
The view from the bus as we set out
The Road to Lamayaru
More views of the road - the Leh-Srinagar highway.
Our capable, intense driver.
Views of Spituk as we left.
More views as we went along
.....
The bus was a little shaky
The road..
Hmm, a tarred road, pretty unusual.
The bus
The road
A famous gurudwara on the Leh-Srinagar highway
No idea why I took this picture
Views along the way
Some more views
One of the Border Road Organization signs - not as bizzare as the once we were to see in Pamanik.
The road to Lamayaru
A view of my hat and a river below
....
Some town along the way.
A stop for breakfast
Some fields of mustard
Our bus
The gang, and our smelly friend, on the bus
The driver again.
Another BRO sign.
More BRO work.
Views along the road
The driver
A river
The bus ride was shaky
It started raining. I was wearing shorts !
Us
Rain
Sreekar - shaken and stirred
Dishant and Farida
Finally, near the end at Khalsar
The bus again
Khalsar
A flower at Khalsar
???
Views from the bus
The steep climb
Views below
Some oncoming trucks
The river which cause the gorge
More views of the river
Our amusing conductor
More views of the conductor
The gorge around Lamayaru
An unfortunate truck.
The deep gorge
The river
A strange formation
Closer view
Some more views of the gorge
Moonland ! Where the moonlanding really happened.
If you look closely you can seen an American flag fluttering...
BRO at work
More views of Moonland
Lamayaru, finally
The Gompa at Lamayaru
The town of Lamayaru
Coffee flows in the drains - or thats what it seems like when you have been starved of it for days...
Lamayaru from above
More views of Lamayaru
Lamayaru again
Damn, not only was I freezing in my shorts, they didnt allow me in since it would screw my Karma
The inside of the Gompa from outside
A painting
The road from Lamayuru - towards the highway
The Gompa from below
Lamayaru
The truck we tried to hitchhike
Seema
Finally, success at hitchhiking
Sreekar in the truck
The view from the lorry
Me in the lorry
Farida and me in the lorry
Seema, Farida and Sreekar and a little bit of me in the lorry
Dishant with Sreekars masculine hat.
Dishant and me
Well, off the truck.
The lorry had a flat.
The mucky road
more views of the mucky road
Some views along the way in the Qualis
High noon at Lamayuru
The mucky road, before we got stuck.
The muck
Stuck in the muck !
A view on the way back
Almost back home.
As we approached Leh
The Road to Khardung-La
More views along the way
Leh, as we ascended towards Khardung-La
Higher Up
Almost at the snow line
The break, thanks to someone else getting stuck in the slush
Another view
At South Pullu - the first Check point
Sreekar and Dishant at South Pullu
The view from South Pullu
Read Carefully.
Snow ! Finally
More snow.
I guess all of these
are part of
a panorama.
I think this is when we stopped when someone got stuck.
The panorama continues
I think its finally over
At Khardung-La - the second highest motorable road in the world ( the highest is some obscure pass in Ladakh near the Chinese border. 18300 ft or 5600 mts. Though my GPS registered less.
The worlds highest public convenience
The view from the other side
A rare photo of all of us at Khardung-La
The views from Khardung-La
A map in the museum
As we descended in to Nubra valley
Further along
In Ladakh one can see
the occasional Yak
Yak again
Sreekar at North Pullu Checkpoint
Me at North Pullu
High Noon at Nubra
Views of Numbra Valley
?
The Shyok river as it passed through the desert.
