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The Ladakh Sarai Leh

Village Ayu Leh, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India

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... later we were still there when he arrived. When he arrived he was also pretty useless in getting everything sorted and nothing was his fault. He said that he would be able to get us onto a flight leaving tomorrow morning instead which was ok, this took about 1 hour to organise such was his efficiency and his job. The problem as I mentioned before was that I didn't have an Indian sim card so they could call me to tell ...

Tracking Snow Leopard at Hemis National Park

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... with a large number of tourists and pilgrims visiting during the Hemis Tsechu festival. [edit] Natural history The park lies within the Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe ecoregion, and contains pine forests, alpine shrublands and meadows, and alpine tundra.HI [edit] Fauna The park is home to a viable breeding population of about 200 snow leopards, especially in the Rumbak catchment area. The prey base for the apex predator in the Central Asian Highlands ...

Geographical Chess

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... 1492;רבה אדמה - אדמה עשירה.
הבוץ זורם לו בין ההרים הסלעי 97;ם לכוון נהר האינד 93;ס ודווק 88; ...

The highest blog entry we'll ever write.

A travel blog entry by eladnelvire

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... the world and not a shortcut to heaven." Apart from this witty anti-speed aphorisms, the Border Roads Organization also posts more moralizing one liners: "union is strength," "when you are good to others you are best to yourself," "failing is not a crime but a lack of effort is," and so on.
The signs, we soon found out, were not limited to risky roads, but multiplied on the 'highway' that follows the Indus River Valley: having returned ...

Leh

A travel blog entry by kmnoble

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... for another chai and a chance to warm up though.

Next we headed out of town for a two day trek, where we stayed in a small isolated rural village in a house with a local family. The homestays were set up some years ago by an NGO to allow a source of income for the villages to offset the cost of livestock losses from the endangered snow leopard, thus the farmers would not kill the leopards in hopes of keeping the elusive cats around. ...