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16Jan

Yayawar Wanders in Ladakh & Spiti – Day 10 : Part 2

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Day 10: 18 August 2013: Part 2: Chang La to Tangtse

I had read somewhere that Chang La souvenir shop sold only K-top marked caps and merchandise. I thought to check and find out. One reason was also that I really wanted to get something which is hard to find. So I entered the shop and asked for Chang La cap. They said that it wasn’t available and all the merchandise were marked for Khardung La. I insisted them to again check and so they opened a metallic trunk and behold – they pulled out a Chang La cap! Got it for 150 bucks. 🙂

Having done that, we embarked on our onward journey, marked by presence of ice on road side and peaks, cloud and fog everywhere and of course running streams on the road. Some shots… (more…)

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3Jan

Yayawar Wanders in Ladakh & Spiti – Day 10 : Part 1

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Day 10: 18 August 2013: Part 1: Serthi/Sakti to Chang La

We woke up early and finished our daily routine with the two buckets of water that was kept in the washroom. There was no more water, so there was no question of getting a bath or shave even. Since we wanted to get rid of the place, we didn’t even opted for tea and knocked the room of the caretaker. He was too surprised to see us ready early in the morning, but we had to go. We settled the bill with him and then he came to open the gate of the guest house.

By 0605, we were out of the guest house, ready to load our luggage.

Below is the approach road from the guest house to gate, so hidden by outgrowth of shrubs that you can’t even imagine that there is a guest house! (more…)

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