Spectacular Spiti

The Spiti valley lies close to the Tibetan border following the Tibetan Hindustan Highway. It  is an amazing landscape in its strange starkness. Scree slopes, narrow gorges, raw rock and the raging Sutlej River below in a desert like dry environment that is emphasised by the brilliant green of the sporadic pea and apple orchard [...]

The trip begins: Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh

Nonchalant cows on every street corner  One day in Delhis chaotic belly was enough,  and the city was in floods after a typical monsoonal downpour - we headed swiftly out on a ‘luxury’ bus  for Shimla in the foothills of the himalayas .   Nice to see that bicycles are encouraged, even by the Delhi Metro 10 -12 [...]