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Kaza Slideshow
Kaza
Travel Blogs from Kaza, India
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Warm shower = heaven!
This is a top pick! ... even though we'll all be taking the same road. I've not been on an Indian bus yet. I'm sure I'll bump into them in Kaza, but it's effectively goodbye. I went back to pack a bit and sort my feet out. I've got a painful achilles and that blister is ...
Life is a free ride!
This is a top pick! ... but meet 2 kids who are taking their yak to the village, they give me directions. A passing government jeep offers me a ride to Kaza and I hop on gratefully. Along the way, I see the wonderful sight of a herd of Ibex alongside the road. They are gone in ...
Dancing with strangers
This is a top pick! ... hope in the driver's capabilities, pick up their luggage and get off the bus. Their plan is to walk about 15 kms to Kaza. Since my contingency plans involve walking not more than 10 kms I stay put. Slowly, the bus gets empty, with some passengers ...
The road to Leh - mountain high, river deep
This is a top pick! ... I read the book, and it was great to recognise the descriptions of landscapes, people, mountains and routes as I travelled. India has changed a lot since Kim was written, but in many ways it's exactly the same. THE HINDISTAN-TIBET ROUTE From ...
The Mahavairochana Mandala
This is a top pick! ... the Guge Kingdom temples, Tabo Monastery was a glimpse into the past, showing the sacred evolution of Buddhism as it spread from India into Tibet. One thousand years ago, Buddhism was waning in parts of India as seen in the cave temples of Ajanta and ...
Back to Basics
This is a top pick! ... very lucky to flag down a lift to hitch with. It's a long, dry, hot walk up the Pin Valley. Good luck to them! At Kaza - which has a pretty spectacular setting - I found a room. A little more than I would like, but nice with a balcony thing. I busied ...
Himalayan Helicopter Rescue
This is a top pick! ... swooped into Shimla airport a small hilltop affair more used to seeing light aircraft bringing visitors from other parts of India rather than military helicopters. We touched down directly outside the terminal building, much to the surprise of staff and ...
Unexpected thrills
This is a top pick! It is early April and a major part of India is sweltering in the heat, but in Himachal Pradesh, winter still lingers on. On the drive to Kinnaur, I feel chilled to the bone. To add to that, the roads are quite challenging, the most difficult I have faced ...
Tabo Monastery
We spent the afternoon visiting Tabo Monastery. The monastery is built of mud brick and mud stucco, resembling the adobe structures of the U.S. Southwest; stark and beautiful. We were the only visitors in the afternoon, and apparently there ...
Kaza, Kibber and Ki Gompa
... (in this case quite litteraly) during my first week here. It remembers all too well how horribly ill it was last time I was in India. I'm glad to say that my appetite is back, but maybe I should inspect my food a little more thoroughly from now on. I ...
The caves in Tabo
Spiti is fantastic! The mountains look different here. The cliffs are rugged and pointy, but the slopes are perfectly even, covered with gravel. Tabo sits on the bank of Spiti River, and everything looks lush and green. On both sides huge walls of ...
420km done
Just a quick update from Kaza, the district capital of Spiti. We've cycled 420km (ish) now, taking us eastwards from Shimla through increasingly barren territory (we've moved into the rainshadow of the Himalayas) towards the border with Chinese-occupied ...
good-bye monaster
Hope this works this time. This is just a test. I have great long reports to send to you once I get back to Delhi in 3 days time. I'm on my way out from the monastery. will visit my old monastery tonight, to manali tomorrow then and overnight bus to ...
Monastery vilage
There is another record here: I'm waking up in a 2℃ room, well, who cares! But yes, I wish I'll stop writing about the temperatures in my room. There is almost nothing to pack, and I have some time to have a breakfast. The bus is crowded, but I ...
Spiti - Tibet in Exile
... for so long. But it is also unjust for me to conclude that the Spitians are least interested in matters connected to India, based on a poster alone. The two countries, India and China, have done their bit to establish their authority over these ...
Landslides
... bus. I spent that night in a hut/cafe with a group of people who looked slightly off. If they filmed The League of Gentleman in India it would of been set here. After a lovely night trying to deflect glares I was led to my room. Numerous people in one ...
Escape from Batal
... while we were gone and were taking everyone up the mountain to the Kunzum pass, where jeeps were waiting to take us to Kaza (our original destination). The police were prodding us to come along as quickly as possible, but we had just walked ...
Bumpy Bumpy, du musst reisen....
Spaeter aber nicht nie, ein neuer Juleo-Reisereport. Am Ende der Strasse, wo die Sternschnuppen hinfallen… Dort, wo sich nur die hartgesottensten, mit allen Wassern (oder eben gerade nicht) gewaschenen Touris hintrauen, die Baertigen. Von wo zwar ...
Oh Tabo
Tabo is a very old monastery town. The people here live a pretty simple life. We are staying in the guesthouse where the power works on occasion and a true plumbing system is non-existent. The scenery has greatly changed from ...
Snaking up to Spiti
... let us be! From Tabo, we moved on to Kaza stopping at Dhankar on the way which had wonderful views of the mountainous landscape. Kaza was a larger village than the others we’d stayed at on the jeep trip, with a bit more choice of places to eat and ...
Trapped in Kaza - unless you happen to be Israeli.
... closed, and the stores that were open tended to shut down around dusk. Kind of depressing, really. The Spiti Valley, where Kaza is located, is beautiful though, and similar to Ladakh, with lots of brown mountains, and a few trees here and ...
Urgyen Sangnag Choling
Urgyen Sangnag Choling is a monastery located in the Spiti Region of North India. The monastery provides a place for many monks to live, practice, and study Dharma. All of Urgyen Sangnag Choling's activities are overseen by Yomed Tulku, also known as ...
These are the Days in Tabo
Today, after breakfast we went to the local school in Tabo that is run by the monastery. We toured thier classrooms and hostels. The kids' ages ranged from 5 to about 14 or 15. There were around 300 students, and they all learn English, ...
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