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Banjara Retreat Kaza

Lahaul and Spiti district, Spiti Valley Kaza, Himachal Pradesh, 4120, India

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Snaking up to Spiti

A travel blog entry by leannemarie

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After a bone-shaking ride through the dodgiest roads known to man, we finally arrived in Tabo. From Kinnaur Valley to Spiti, the landscape and environment was dramatically different. We moved from green, snow-capped mountains to arid scrubland which almost appeared like a desert where mountains replaced dunes. At some points on the drive we were around 4000 metres above sea level, where the road in areas was small boulders 'leveled' out as ...

Saying goodbye to the yellow

A travel blog entry by dotanandlihi

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למחרת התגלג 00;נו יחד עם חגית ועידו באוטו 89;וסים מקומי 97;ם לכיוו 03; ספיטי. באמצע שום ...

Climbing up and down to a himalayan oasis

A travel blog entry by cocoandsteve

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Caught a shared taxi from Kaza, where we were whiling away the day waiting to catch the 4pm bus to Mud...

A beatiful spot and a very scenic village, with an intimidating plan to hike 19km back down to Kaza via the Lord of the Rings lookalike Ki Gompa. Warmed up with a 2 hour hike up to about 450m where the surrounding mountains and farms were unforgettable. Finally a couple beers lugged up from only 2600m and the normal dal, rice and chapatis meal to finish it all off.
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Urgyen Sangnag Choling

A travel blog entry by cheewang_negi

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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 Spiti ...

Landslides

A travel blog entry by joe_foote

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Listening to: Mogwai - Tracy

The first night on this route was not in Spiti. It was infact in the middle of nowhere! I could not put it on a map because I don't know where it is. I don't think the people who live there know where it is! I asked my bus driver (from Ladakh) not to take me all the way back to Manali but to drop me on the way to Spiti. I had to wait for the morning bus. I spent that night in a hut/cafe with a group of people who looked slightly off. If ...