Naro Hotel Leh

It takes my maximal determination to get up at 6:30 and take a ride to the gompa. I get there by time - seven - and then it proved that the morning pray is at 8! Well, at least I have sometime to take pictures of the local dawn and the young monks coming down from the monastery to the praying hall. But first they prepare some sort of breakfast - a milk tea with butter and with some sort of powder. It's cold in the morning, I wear all the clothes I found, and I hardly understand how do the ...

Taking a ride to Diskit. Initially wanted to take off at 7, but of course with all the fueling, etc I was on the road only at 10. On the way I made a small accident - hit a female donkey which was running away like there is no tomorrow from a mating male. Of course I have also mistaken with the road, and had to take a shortcut to the proper way. At the beginning it all looked very nice - the road was in a very good condition, the riding was pleasant. 
But as I went higher and ...

... and we walked 94 kilometres in total. After the trek I decided to make a photo of myself after the trek and after the trek shaved. However I only wanted to use one picture for that ;). <br><br>Today I spent 18 hours in a bus from Leh to Manali over a distance of 437 km. So I am now a bit dead and I am going for some diner soon!! Very hungry!<br><br>Other bad news is that while my Indian mobile should be working now again (I am now ...

... de descendre avec eux jusqu&#8217;à ZINGRAL, le lieu inondé de militaires où nous pensions boire un jus en montant. La moto restera à CHANG LA sous la surveillance du sergeant : « My responsibility » il dit, en se pointant du torse. <br><br>A peine partis, nous commençons à nous sentir mieux. Si j&#8217;étais malade comme un chien, David avait quand même aussi un mal de tête. Arrivés à ZINGRAL à un peu plus de 5000m, nous sommes reçus par une douzaine de soldats ...

Wow, the climb was amazing.<br>We started at Stok, took 2-3 hours to walk to Manikamo, stayed there the night, walked to base camp in 2 hours, stayed there the night, these are all just names to you... and then that night, at 12 midnight, I was awoken to Siri - the rude, patronising, idiot guide - shaking my tent and shouting "morning morning". Thanks, now sod off.<br>Anyway, we breakfasted, I packed my back with Janine, my utterly pointless but still very necessary axe, Gladys, my ...

... a salatit, juua changi, minna naisterahvana üksinda matkama, pesta hambaid kraaniveega. Ahah, kõik juba tehtud.<br>Nelja paiku lähen õue ja seiklen mõnda aega edasi-tagasi, otsides rada, mis viiks mäe otsa. Ei tundu nagu midagi olevat. Lõpuks juhatab koolibussilt tulnud tüdruk mulle majadevahelise tee, mille lõppedes turnin üsna püstloodis kiviklibu mööda. Yeah, on ikka tahtmine templisse jõuda. Poole mäe peal kohtun rajaga.<br>Templis vilksatab korra kaks munka ...

Ärkan seitsme paiku. Taevas on pilves. Vihma ei saja. Hea matkailm, aga kehva pildistamiseks.<br>Hommikusöögiks antakse hunnik moosiga chapatisid.<br>Stardin kell kaheksa. Saan perepojalt kaasa visiitkaardi ja annan lubaduse meilida ja pilte saata. Kuivõrd mul on seoses muutunud ajakavaga matkaks kaks päeva rohkem aega, otsustan teha pikema ringi ja minna Hemis-Shukpachusse Rizongi kaudu. Perepoeg küsib, kui raske mu kott on ja hoiatab, et tuleb mitu korda jõge yletada. V ...

6a.m., walking through the narrow, twisting, dusty lanes of the old town: weathered faces on hunched bodies with gnarled hands fingering prayer beads, entering the gold-roofed Buddhist temple; 'om mani padme hum' echoing over and over; traders squatting outside their shops, washing and brushing teeth before opening up; stray dogs and roaming cows feeding on rubbish mounds; the aroma of ...

... the front door, where they will happily expel. Every morning we wake to the sound of India spitting. I copped one on my head as someone in their flat above the main street, shot one out the window. I'm suprised that has been the only time. Anyway... on a positive note: India is also a country united in EVERYONE being able to make GREAT chai. If you like it spiced, sweet and milky like us - you can get it anywhere, anytime.

... the evening and made my way to Stenzin's<br>room, where the others had already gathered. Stenzin was giving a<br>presentation on LEDeG's efforts with installation of micro-hydel<br>projects. Sanjiv, Meherzad and Rohit were to accompany him to office<br>the next day, but we were asked to stay and rest another day to<br>acclimatize. I tried working on my laptop that night, and since there was no power<br>outlet in my room, I ran it on battery power. The battery indicator<br>showed me a ...