Despite the fervent wishes of many ex-readers, I am still hale and hearty (neither of the two words mean anything, I suspect) and the blog has been neglected because I've been busy travelling to Ladakh for about 9 days, and then I've been fishing out Ravalgaon candy wrappers from 9 days' worth of laundry all of last week. Ah, the sweet and sour joys of altitude and motion sickness (on our return, they've reverted to being attitude and notion sickness).
I could ooh and aah about the Ladakh scenery - the gigantic bare mountains with little veins of snow and ice on their wrinkled foreheads, the blue blue sky with little puffs of clouds, the riot of flowers where vegetation gets a fighting chance – but I'll leave that for the husband and his fotus. Instead, let's talk about the tons and tons of exquisite turquoise, coral and lapis jewellery in Leh bazaar? Or Jasmine tea and veg momos? Ok. I'm packing up and going back there right now!
Time for some evidence:
From the hotel, which I heartily recommend to anyone planning a trip.
Nine nights of waking up gasping for breath, bleeding noses and a hopeless inability to climb more than two flights of steps… matlab Lung Se Jung!
"Yak"een nahin hota that such beautiful places exist on Earth!
The breathtaking Pangong lake. I believe the film 3 Idiots was shot here recently…
We did manage to catch the shooting of the Ladakhi version!
...and this is one of the 274 reasons, my camera tells me, that I will go back!
11 comments:
Welcome back.
Awesome commentary.
It's a little harsh on Donkeys though, specially the cute one :-).
Lovely!
next time, i am coming with. bas.
beautiful place, awesome point of view (no puns intended) :p
Great post...and great photos too...especially of the Pangong Lake.
Wow.. Nice trip. I will stay at Lung-se-jung anyday.
liked the title.
Why do all ex-Delhiites make the same Yakky jokes? Waise beetey dino ki yaad a gayee. Guest house looks lovely. Ours had a peach tree. I would gape at it in wonder every morning.
leh is breathtaking and all that..but Ravalgaon candy! the brown sweeties in the polka-dot wrappers? I havent had those for ages!NOW I am jealous
beautiful.
cant wait to go.
I shared the hotel lung-se-jung fable with my friends and one of them came up with this.
Enjoy!
http://engrishfunny.com/
OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH, it is so beautiful place.. i was telling my hubby to take me to this place in 1 months or 2:)
thanks for sharing
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