The next morning we got back on the road, following the Shyok river in the opposite direction, east towards the Chinese border. Our destination was Pangong Lake, a source of the gorgeous glacial water accompanying us along the road. While the lake has recently become famous for its role in the final scene of Three […]
The next day our real journey began. Already having enough trouble with the altitude of Leh (3500m), we journeyed higher along the Khardung La pass, rising up to over 5300m before coming back down the other side of the mountain. The pass was fraught was rocks and breaks in the road from landslides, to the point […]
After returning to Delhi from Tijara, my family took off for our real vacation, a journey through Ladakh. Our port of call was the local capital of Leh, a city tucked away in the mountain not unlike our ancestral home of Srinagar (although, a lot drier). Leh and its surrounding regions are home to many […]
This begins a series of posts chronicling my brief trip to India this year. The trip began was a family vacation to Tijara Fort Palace, which rises above the hills of Rajasthan. Now remodeled into a hotel, the fort set the scene for a family reunion almost 9 years in the making. As we caught […]