Golden Continental Leh
Post Box- 47, Opp to Vegetable Market Leh, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, 100009, India
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My last days at SECMOL
... the car to leave). Binoy has cooked me my favorite for breakfast, aloo paratha, and he is preparing my fav SECMOL curry for dinner. (egg curry and rice). I take Dorje to the beach with Irene and Jonathon and say my last BIG CIRCLE at conversation class. After dinner the kids have opted for a dance party as they know I love them more than any other activity. When it is all over red rover, the two terrible ...
Geographical Chess
... 1492;סלע המברי 11;ה מול הסלע המשקע 97;ת האבקת 97;ת כשתת היבשת ההודי 14; התמזג 92; לאסיה.
העימו 14; ...
No place like home
After a crammed hour-long bus ride in which I had to sit on the floor folded up as small as I could make myself (Emily enjoyed a seat…), we arrived in the small town of Phyang outside of Leh. In a vast ocean of desert mountains, it is a quiet and beautiful little green patch nestled between the peaks – driving in we admired how pretty it was. We were excited and hopeful that we would find a nice homestay with a family in town.
We passed many ...
Delhi to Leh
... government and the home of the Dalai Lama. We had a great few days there exploring the Buddhist temples and wandering around all the shops (it’s a very touristy place). We also took a cooking lesson where we learned to make momos, delicious little veggie filled dumplings. Our instructor was a Tibetan refugee named Sangye who told us about his escape to India from Tibet 10 years ago – it took 29 days in the middle of winter, only moving at night to ...
Ladakh festival
... just to frustrating to watch. The traditional clothes from around Ladakh were stunning and it was so nice to see them, but tourists really do need to learn some manners! We did however go back for the polo match which was a little hairy at times. The wooden ball would get quite close to the spectators and the horses would come full pelt at you with the mallets waving around. We heard from Choszang later that ...


