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Travel Blogs from Leh, India

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A Trek in the Indian Himalaya, Leh, India travel blog

A Trek in the Indian Himalaya

A travel blog entry by fishtails04

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... because of altitude sickness or lack of leg muscle but because my insides went berserk the day before the trek. 3 weeks in India and not a hint of 'Delhi belly' but suddenly everything I swallowed rapidly reappeared from one point or another. Figuring ...

A day in Leh, Leh, India travel blog

A day in Leh

A travel blog entry by fishtails04

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... his robes, appears, to fill the butter lamps and shows me the temple interior. It's mid-morning when I arrive back in Leh and enter a transformed town - the tourists are now up and about and the sleepy town of early morning is replaced by just ...

Ladakh is the crack, Leh, India travel blog

Ladakh is the crack

A travel blog entry by izzie

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... 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 ...

Back to the Mountains, Leh, India travel blog

Back to the Mountains

A travel blog entry by allisonandjeff

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... ; Allison 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 ...

My day in Leh, Leh, India travel blog

My day in Leh

A travel blog entry by izzie

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Thikse Gompa ...

Driving to Leh, Keylong and Leh, India travel blog

Driving to Leh

A travel blog entry by lraleigh

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... 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 ...

Leh, Leh, India travel blog

Leh

A travel blog entry by izzie

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- PLING! ...

Phyang Cham Ceremony, Phyang, India travel blog

Phyang Cham Ceremony

A travel blog entry by lraleigh

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... cookies 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 ...

German Bakeries and Old Palaces, Leh, India travel blog

German Bakeries and Old Palaces

A travel blog entry by lraleigh

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... hundred 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 ...

Flying over the Himalayas, Leh - Delhi, India travel blog

Flying over the Himalayas

A travel blog entry by izzie

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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, Leh, India travel blog

Ladakh: the world's highest road and pop festival

A travel blog entry by jeroen

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... 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., Leh, Ladakh, India travel blog

Long and arduous journey through the Himalayas.

A travel blog entry by directgb

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... 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, Leh, India travel blog

Leh

A travel blog entry by markwilliams84

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... 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 ...

Leh, Leh, Ladakh, India travel blog

Leh

A travel blog entry by yushim

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

May 13, 2009, Leh, India travel blog

May 13, 2009

A travel blog entry by germain

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Ladakh, Leh, India travel blog

Ladakh

A travel blog entry by altnomad

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... .) 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 ...

le village de Dah, une enclave traditionnelle, Leh, India travel blog

le village de Dah, une enclave traditionnelle

A travel blog entry by ericetmanu

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... rejoindre 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 ...

Happy Yatara!, Leh, India travel blog

Happy Yatara!

A travel blog entry by spudbraham

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... 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, Leh, India travel blog

Khardung La revisited - 1. katse

A travel blog entry by nipitiri

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... , 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. ...

teine vaatus, Leh, India travel blog

teine vaatus

A travel blog entry by nipitiri

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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 ...

Conversation class SECMOL, Leh, India travel blog

Conversation class SECMOL

A travel blog entry by j0dibr00k

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Here are some pics of the students in conversation class, we did some role play, which most of them ...

No race no rallye, enjoy the beauty of the valley, Leh, India travel blog

No race no rallye, enjoy the beauty of the valley

A travel blog entry by tomandbecky

... & humidity, 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 ...

Pangong Lake, Leh, India travel blog

Pangong Lake

A travel blog entry by markwilliams84

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... 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, Leh, India travel blog

Leh, Ladakh

A travel blog entry by owain

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3rd Day in Leh, Leh, India travel blog

3rd Day in Leh

A travel blog entry by pinesh

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... AM. The breakfast room had closed by then and we were served breakfast in the room.  The day was for sightseeing around Leh. We decided to visit Hemis Monastery, Thiksey Monastery and the Shey Palace etc.  Our Love for Rivers We moved out of ...

Back over the pass from Diskit to Leh, Leh, India travel blog

Back over the pass from Diskit to Leh

A travel blog entry by tommy_9c

... the valley depths below heat my snow swept cheeks, I wanted to close my eyes and relax in sheer bliss. Getting back into Leh was a little bit of a wake up call, while we had been enjoying the incredible natural surrounds not 100km North of here it was ...

On route to Srinagar, Leh, India travel blog

On route to Srinagar

A travel blog entry by j0dibr00k

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finally after all the warnings from the kids that Srinagar is dangerous we are off in a small convoy. Andy and Catherine come to SECMOL at 9 in the morning to pick myself, and Khalid up, whilst Harinder drives along side us on his bike. First stop is ...

Leh, Leh, Ladakh, India travel blog

Leh

A travel blog entry by yushim

2.5 hour bus ride back to ...

Leh, la capitale du petit Tibet, Leh, India travel blog

Leh, la capitale du petit Tibet

A travel blog entry by ericetmanu

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... 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 ...

Momo making night, Leh, India travel blog

Momo making night

A travel blog entry by j0dibr00k

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... and giggling our way into Leh. when we are there we fill up on food that either reminds us that we are actually in India (spicy curries) or reminds us of home (hamburger and chips, pizza freshly squeezed juices) and then we catch up on emails and ...

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