From the ridiculous to the sublime. I don’t know why Mukesh booked us two full days in Manali because after the first day there was nothing else to see. So we had a lazy day…

July 22nd was a somewhat unproductive day. We left the beautiful Blue Pines hotel (named after a nearby monastery) at 11 AM and got to Manali before 12.30 because a former Prime Minister Atal Vajpayee…

We visited Leh Palace, which was only a 3-minute drive from the hotel, in the morning. It was built in 1600 by Sengge Namgyal, the king of Ladakh when it was at its zenith and…

We met a very pleasant American gent during breakfast who was suffering from an AMS headache and gave his breakfast to his driver. It seems we can only come to Pangong with an officially-recognised taxi…

Today was utterly spectacular. We set off from the guest house at Nubra Valley and took a different route out of the village through sand dunes and clumps of bushes with the road along a…

We had to travel by taxi to Nubra Valley because, according to Mukesh the state of the road which would wreck his car, but is likely to be the insistence of the taxi driver’s union….