After several days acclimatising in Leh it was finally time to set off. I still wasn’t sleeping properly at altitude, but each night was getting a little better than the last. My excitement was tempered by a touch of apprehension — eight days without a shower or flushing toilets, and a new group of strangers […]| Randomwire
Perched at 3,500 m in the Indian Himalayan Region, Leh is the historic capital of Ladakh, a high-altitude desert once criss-crossed by caravans trading between Tibet, Kashmir, and Central Asia. For centuries it sat on a branch of the Silk Road, its monasteries and markets reflecting a mix of Tibetan Buddhist, Central Asian and Kashmiri […]| Randomwire