Monday October 10, 2005

A long journey in Trans Indian Himalayas... I'm back from the long journey in Trans Himalayas. The journey was great but we could not complete the trek upto Zanskar range due to river crossing issues. Overall it was a spectacular trip. We did following things during the visit :-

(a) Trek from Prini (near Manali) to Chathru via Hampta Pass (4300m) [four days and avg trek time is 6-7 hours per day]

(b) Trek to Chandra Tal from Battal (in Spiti) [one day and 28 kms]

(b) Battal to Leh (570 kms journey by bus which took two days to complete). Stayed in Keylong.

(c) Leh to Nubra Valley via Khardung La pass at 18,300 feet. We also stayed in Disket and Panamik (close to Siachen Base camp in the Karakoram range).

(d) Leh to Srinagar via Kargil, Drass and Sonamarg. Stayed at Drass. It took two days to finish this journey by bus.

(e) Stayed for two days in Srinagar in a house boat (Delux House Boat) on Dal Lake.

(g) Visited Vaishnodevi temple (near Jammu/Katra).

My uncle and I were the participants. I couldn't take photographs of the trek as I had fallen into the river before crossing Hampta pass. Luckily my camera started working in Ladakh and as a result I might have been successful in capturing beautiful mountains. I'll get them developed and post it later.

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