During our time in Keylong we got comfortable in our mostly vacant hotel. We developed our regular spots in town for eating out but also for getting groceries to prepare food in our room. A couple of weeks earlier in…
The new heavyweight champion of the samosa world!
Ok. So maybe it’s not a fair fight since I haven’t tried all of the samosas on earth but out of the ones I have tried, these are the best. Maybe southern India will have some contenders. We’ll see. A…
Gorgeous Bhaga River Hike
So many possibilities existed for exploration on foot around Keylong that we had to do some scouting missions just to help us decide where to go. On one of these missions we walked down the road to the east which…
Keylong
Monsoon season was drawing to an end so we started to feel comfortable with the idea of heading south through Himachal Pradesh and eventually working our way toward Nepal. No rush. Let’s just take our time and explore the mountains.…
Buggin’ out
A little shriek came from the bathroom. Hmm, should I investigate? No need to. Fern immediately emerged from the bathroom of our new, but filthy, hotel room and informed me that something just peeked its head out of the drain…
Fern’s Ladakhi fashion show
Gunzang is the wife/mother of the household where we were staying in Leh. It took a lot to make her smile sometimes. She only spoke a very small amount of English so I think the language barrier made her uncomfortable,…
Mary of the Himalayas
While in Leh it was impossible not to notice the mountains which surround the little pocket of civilization. It’s nestled into a small valley, along a tributary of the Indus River and barren rocky ridges press in on the edges…