Leh, India Travel Blogs

Back to the Mountains
Oct 1, 2005 (14 photos)

... quickly followed Jeff with stomach problems and got a cold as an extra bonus. Score: India - 10, Allison and Jeff - 0. India always wins. Leh (and Ladakh) is incredibly different than the rest of India. The area used to be part of Tibet, so the people ...

Driving to Leh
Jul 14, 2007 (5 photos)

... and Taklang La.  Canyons descended into the depths while mountains of snow pushed upwards into the blue sky. Before leaving for Leh, we stayed in green Keylong for a day, surrounded by large peaks and visiting the Keylong Drukpa Kagyu Monastery across the ...

Ladakh is the crack
Jul 25, 2007 (2 photos)

... the driver] means he grabs for your crotch every time he changes gear. Mountains = many gear changes. Dude in seat 2, a nice man from Leh who's name I didn't catch and didn't have the courage to ask him to repeat, didn't blink an eye, but I kept wincing on ...

Phyang Cham Ceremony
Jul 16, 2007 (34 photos)

... and juice as well as another ride in an officer's jeep (so many army vehicles, barbed wire, and bases in the strategic Leh area), one ride in a van with AirTel cell phone marketers, and a fourth and final ride with a gravel truck. Kevin joined us at ...

German Bakeries and Old Palaces
Jul 15, 2007 (16 photos)

... years ago, loomed over ecclectic Leh and its narrow streets, small flat-roof earth homes, stupas, mosques, and Hindu temples. Leh is home to Kashmiris, Tibetans, Ladakhis, flatlanders, and westerners. From the top of the palace ridge, we had views of the ...

My day in Leh
Jul 29, 2007 (1 photos)

Thikse Gompa

Leh
Jul 26, 2007 (2 photos)

- PLING!

Flying over the Himalayas
Aug 1, 2007

Wow, what a crazy morning. I saw the Dalai Lama! As we were leaving the airport, he arrived with his monk posse around him. It was properly like: 'DING! And if you take a look out the left side of the plane, you'll see the Dalai Lama.' Bonus, I got a ...

Ladakh: the world's highest road and pop festival
Aug 6, 2004

... in Ladakh. DELHI, PART III The waiting for the early morning flight to Delhi was made into an India-experience by the hopelessly incompetent Leh airport staff, who have loads of baggage scanners around, but only employ one to scan the hand luggage ...

Long and arduous journey through the Himalayas.
May 25, 2006 (19 photos)

... they sell out. Strange application of Indian thrift going on in this restaurant. Unlike everywhere I have visited in India, the minimum portion philosophy (=increased profit potential), mostly applied in cases of accompaniments like butter, jam, honey, ...

Leh
Sep 17, 2008 (33 photos)

... and there were all sorts of things going on from dancing to the army showing how their dogs could sniff out explosives underground, this was impressive and so was the discipline of the dogs. I then used Leh as a base to explore the nearby things to see.

Leh
Aug 19, 2007

Back to Leh for the last time, a 6 hour jeep ride.

May 13, 2009
May 13, 2009 (52 photos)

Ladakh
Apr 14, 2008

... I glare at her. I glare at the Himalaya. I cannot decide if I am happy.   Then we begin our descent into Leh and I am definitely happy because the captain announces that it is the second-highest airport in the world and I know that we are about to ...

le village de Dah, une enclave traditionnelle
Jun 3, 2009 (30 photos)

... un village perdu dans les montagnes non loin de la frontiere Pakistanaise. Nous voyageons avec Manish, un Ladaki de Leh, guide touristisque a ses heures perdues, et Sima, une anglaise d'origine Indienne. 6heures de route nous sont necessaires pour ...

Happy Yatara!
Aug 26, 2007 (15 photos)

... you're battling your way up the big hill in the dust and truck exhaust. We have heard the horrors stories of biking in India.  Lots of traffic, lots of noise, lots of people.  Thankfully Kashmir isn't much like the rest of India.  This ...

Khardung La revisited - 1. katse
Jul 27, 2009 (9 photos)

... neiuga, kes on korduvalt Tallinnas orkestri koosseisus viiulit mänginud ja vaimustuses Tallinna vanalinnast. Näen möödaminnes raamatupoe aknal India Lonely Planetit ja mulle tuleb meelde Sunny kurtmine, et keegi Iisraeli neiu olevat nende LP pihta pannud. ...

In Leh, Alive
Jul 11, 2005 (12 photos)

... villages and gompas (Buddhist monasteries) and numerous stupas (Buddhist shrines) and then, with relief and joy, arrived - alive - in Leh. At 3500m, nestled between huge mountains, Leh - capital of the Ladakh region in the state of Jammu & Kashmir - is ...

teine vaatus
Jul 12, 2009 (6 photos)

Pärast vaheäratust mosheest proovime kella seitsme paiku linnast midagi süüa leida. Tagajärjetult. Poolitame Estriga eilset pirukat ja jagan oma küpsiseid. Tarime kotid alla, kuigi minu juhti veel ei paista. Saan kolme kallistuse võrra rikkamaks ja vaatan, ...

No race no rallye, enjoy the beauty of the valley
Jul 27, 2008

... , the questionable hygiene, it all proved too much for our bodies. So, we decided to leave for the only spot in India where the monsoon is bearable or doesn't hit: Himachal Pradesh and Ladakh in the Northwest (due to unrest, curfews and bombings, ...

Pangong Lake
Sep 20, 2008 (39 photos)

... for lake) is situated in the Himalayas at  4,250 m (13,900 ft). It is 134 km long and extends from India to Tibet (China). Only one third of it is actually in India and the rest in Tibet, in the winter is freezes completely, despite ...

Leh, Ladakh
Jul 3, 2009 (57 photos)

Leh
Aug 13, 2007

2.5 hour bus ride back to Leh

Leh, la capitale du petit Tibet
May 22, 2009 (12 photos)

... insuffisant pour profiter de cette belle region. On est enfin tomber sous le charme de l'inde!  2 jours d'acclimatation a l'altitude de Leh qui est aux alentours de 3 200m sont a peine suffisants: fatigue, souffle coupe des qu'on fait un peu d' ...

Motorcycle Lesson
Apr 22, 2008

... , at monasteries and mountains. "Antisar, Antisar, Antisar..." It became a metaphor for all of Ladakh, for all of India, for everything foreign one could hope to see or know. We finally found a motorcycle shop, demarcated by teenage boys with ...

Higher and higher! Sarchu to Leh (5000 Mts Plus)
Aug 13, 2007 (10 photos)

... a bliss on such altitudes. It was only on the top everybody woke up to majesty of the highest point on whole Manali - Leh highway.    Taglang La was breathtaking beautiful. As the highest point of my whole Manali - Leh journey it almost gave us ...

In the Land of the Snow Leopard
Apr 7, 2009 (23 photos)

Man, I was tired just getting up and walking halfway across the room. :(  So what about a 3 hour uphill  hike?  I will tell you this.  It's not going to be pretty....  Well, we made it.  We are hoping to see another Snow ...

We aren't coming back!
Jul 28, 2007

... closer to Leh and we escaped the barrier of the monsoon clouds we had a much better view of the mountains. The descent into Leh was INSANE. We basically had to spiral lower and lower and lower so we wouldn't hit any mountains, they were SO close together ...

Leh
Jun 5, 1983

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halli-kalli Hemises
Jul 2, 2009 (10 photos)

Hommik on jahe, tibutab, öösel on vihma sadanud. Ladakhis peaks kuulu järgi vihma sadama kolmel päeval aastas. Gobi kõrbe kogemuse põhjal ma muidugi ei imestaks, kui see aasta oleks erakordne ja vihma sajaks näiteks seitse päeva. Suundume pannkoogile ja seejarel ...