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Arriving into Leh
... in Katmandu with its backpacker shops, german bakerys, and craft shops. I managed to find myself some apple pie which brough back memories of trekking in Nepal with Paul.
Tomorrow I am going on a 4 day trek from Spituk to Chilling staying in local homestays before going on to drive the world highest road. The trek is costing me around $50 a day but because I am by myself it is going to more expsensive that it would be if I was in a group but I am sure it is worth ...
Yep, the hill again
... slope, car rolls backwards up hill. Turn off engine. Same thing. Weird. Dinner and fruitless search for a wifi conection (again. Sorry). Plan tomorrow is a later start, catch a Jeep to the highest road in the world and bicycle 37K down. What can go wrong? As this was sent from an IPad which does not support Flash, pictures are at http://s300.photobucket.com/albums/nn39 /grahamstuff Any videos are on YouTube.com. Search for ...
Geographical Chess
... 1512;ופ 93;ליס תפורי 01; על בגד כפרי.
הכל כאוס.
הכל שופע חיים.
שמחנו לטוס ללה בבוקר שלמחר 14;.
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The highest blog entry we'll ever write.
... to a storm caused the death of over 100 people: the new parts of town are built on the fertile floodplain, and thus exposed to the risk of landslides and flooding. Anyhow, the generally desertic conditions mean that irrigation is vital to agriculture in this area, and while precipitation is minimal, the rivers, taking their source from mountain glaciers, are abundant. The Indus River, to name the most famous one, flows south of Leh... and ...
Big blue skies for the Ladakh Festival in Leh
... in the afternoon (check out the video on Picasa – link below). I was there 30 minutes ahead of time, and already the seats were quite full with eager spectators awaiting the action! Dirk and Cena joined me, and we had a blast watching ponies saddled with club-wielding players chasing after the little white ball along the dusty polo pitch. Although both teams wore red, making the action tough to follow, one side was obviously dominating the other, ...


