The last week of September found me driving up the slopes of Chanshal Pass (3784m) in eastern Himachal Pradesh. Keen to explore the settlements and folkways of the enigmatic Dodra Kwar villages, I set out for a sojourn in the beautiful…
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Category: Epic Road Journeys, Himachal Pradesh, Travels
Tags: bNomadic, chanshal, chirgaon, dodra, Hatkoti, Himachal, Himalayas, kwar, larot, netwar, Pabbar, Rohru, Rupin, Sangla, Shimla, Tons, Uttarakhand
It was a cold misty morning at Nathu La, the natural high-altitude passage between India and Tibet, across the Himalayas, in Sikkim. Passports had been verified for the one last time by the Indo Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP), baggage…
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Category: Epic Road Journeys, Tibet, Trans-Himalayas, Travels
Tags: Beijing, China, Delhi, Gangtok, India, Kailash, Kailash Mansarovar, KMY, Lhasa, Mansarovar, MEA, Nathula, Road, Sikkim, Tibet, trans-Himalayas, travel, Yatra
This is an account of three heavenly weeks spent in the midst of some of the magnanimous and most beautiful mountains of the world located in the trans-Himalayan region. The description – from Shimla-Kinnaur-Spiti-Lahaul-Ladakh-Kargil-Zanskar-Dras-Kashmir-Jammu – is supported by anecdotes, colourful…
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Category: Epic Road Journeys, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Spiti, Trans-Himalayas, Travels
Tags: featured, Himachal, Himalaya, Indus, Kargil, Kashmir, Kinnaur, Kunzum, Ladakh, Lahaul, landscape, Leh, Manali, Photography, Spiti, trans-Himalayas, travel, Zanskar