Archive for September, 2010
Along the Indus to Chumathang
Heading down a wine coloured valley to Mahe, the junction where we joined the Indus River
Detour to the Indus (via Tso Kar)
Due to the floods and mudslides in Ladakh, we were forced to change our route and add another 100 odd kilometres onto the trip. The route we had expected to follow would have taken us over 5300m Taglang-la pass, however once over this pass, some 20km or so of road had been completely washed away. [...]
The more-ish Moray plains
The sign says it all Up from Pang, one of the few flat sections on the trip, the Moray plains, are a treat
…continuing up Rhotang and over
It rained cats and dogs for over 12 solid hours. Things were looking bleak and cabin fever had definetly set in as we bunkered down in a quagmire of damp sleeping bags and clothes, staring blankly at each other after every game in the book had been exhausted.The pass was once again closed, the tempremental landslide [...]
