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In part 1 of this series, you accompanied us on a local tour of Leh. In part 2, you tried to imagine how the Pangong experience might be, and ascended up the highest motorable pass in the world into Nubra. In part 3, you read about our exploits of TsoMoriri and TsoKar, and of our bidding farewell to Ladakh and halting at Keylong. In this concluding part of the series, I recount our journey from

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In Part 1, you read about our visit in and around Leh. Part 2 of this travelog series took you through Pangong and Nubra. In this installment, you'll accompany us out of Leh, through TsoMoriri and Tsokar, and into Keylong. And do check out the travel tips section at the end of the post. Day 7: Friday, 23rd July – TsoMoririIt was time to say good-bye to Leh. We checked out of our guest house at 8

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In Part 1, I described the first 2 days of our trip – in and around Leh. In part 2, I describe the trips to Pangong and Nubra – 2 days each. By the way, check out some more snaps here. And don't miss the Travel Tips at the end of this post. Day 3: Mon, 19th Jul – Leh-Pangong.Trashi was bang on time and at 7 he cranked the engine. We had got breakfast packed by our hosts (Ladakhi bread with butter

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In Ladakhi language, “La” means pass and “Dakh” means land. Ladakh, thus, means land of passes. It is easy to see why. There's hardly any 2 places in Ladakh that don't have a pass between them! But Ladakh is much more than just that. Ladakh is a land of seemingly never-ending valleys, punctuated with streams and rivers, and the patches of greenery they bring about.Ladakh is a land of snow-capped

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I start off this travelog by stating that my 2-week trip to Europe was simple an unforgettable one. Once-in-a-lifetime, if I may! Photos here.Ok, to begin at the beginning; I spent three (and-a-half) days in Salzburg (Austria), five in Switzerland, and two (and-a-half) days in Javea, Spain .. an oh, an entire night at Frankfurt airport too! The three days in Salzburg were for an official

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Photos Sunday 3rd September. I had spent 2 days of my 3-day weekend doing nothing worthwhile. So I decided to go to Genting on Sunday. Genting is a sort of hill station about 50 kms from Kuala Lumpur. In local parlance, hill stations are called “Highlands”. It was confusing in the beginning – I always used to think people are referring to Genting Islands, whereas is fact it is Highlands! So

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Photos Here Batu caves is a Hindu shrine about 12-15 kms outside KL. I’ve been there twice – the reason being first time I had gone there, I had missed the most important feature of Batu, i.e., the Dark Caves. The First Visit: Saturday 25th August. I left from my hotel after lunch, alone, in the hot sun. The taxi drive to Batu caves, which should have taken 20 minutes, took more than half an

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Photos:Petronas TowersBird ParkBatu CavesKLCC - AquariaI have just spent little over a week here in Malaysia, and what a time it has been! It’l take me years to explain it all in detail :). So I guess it makes sense to split up all the experiences into multiple posts. So here I go.. The Welcome: I landed in KL on Sunday 20th Aug. The touchdown was on time. I was floored by the

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This post is to describe my first ever trip abroad – the 1 week official visit to Bangkok. I should start off by saying that how “ignorance is bliss” turned true in this case. I had thought Thailand, and Bangkok in particular would be just like any other Indian city. Since I wasn’t expecting much, what met me was totally unexpected - a very pleasant surprise. The whole experience was really

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Hmm..another largely boring week.. EXCEPT.. except for the weekend party :-) :-). More about that below. Most of the week has been spent in work... this week i've even been working late nights, but from my room; thankfully not from office. Much of the week has also been spent in trying to decide if I should go home for diwali.. but i've more or less made up my mind that i will not go. Now for

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Hmm.. posting this one after a looong time. This is attributable in major part to my laziness, and in minor part to my home trip last weekend. Actually, there's not been too much to blog about too. So expect this edition to be a short one. hmm..over past 3 weeks, there hasnt been too much of activity or sight seeing or anything here in Gurgaon. Its only been office during the weekdays and

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Hmm.. finally I've had a pretty much eventless week. Except for the 2 movies that i watched, i've done almost nothing (outside of work that is), this entire week. So i thought i'l do some other analysis of Gurgaon :DGetting aroundSurprise Surprise!. There are no autorickshaws in Gurgaon. Nor proper city bus service. So how do you get around? Simple. Take the cycle-rickshaw. These are actually

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Well well well.. every week seems to be more eventful that the last. Thats good isnt it :). Well, after last weekend's heavy rain pounding Delhi, the roads have only worsened. Potholes forming everywhere.. and the potholes here are the size of a swimming pool. However, the weather has been a let down. The rains had brought down the temperature but only temporarily. Now its back to the hot days

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All right, so this week was more eventful than last week :). So here is the weekly account Weather The weather is becoming increasingly bearable here. It started drizzling a few days back. And yestreday the drizzles grew into a full-blown thunderstorm, with winds and all. That has succeeded in getting down the temperature quite a bit. Plus now i'm seeing semblance of 'breeze', which was non

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I thought I’ll start writing a weekly blog for this Delhi trip. In this first installment, I’ll also include snippets from my previous trip in June-end. But I don’t know where to start cuz there’s so much to write. Well, I’ll make an effort to make sense, but don’t blame me if I don’t :D Weather: Last time I had been here, it was extremely hot. When I had alighted from the plane at 6:30

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The heading says it all. My trip to Goa was 50% nostalgia and 50% enjoyment. Chalo let me begin at the beginning lest you get confused ;). By the way, if you are not interested in the details and just want to know the gist, then you can go directly to Observations The Beginning [Friday 28th April 2006.] I should say that the trip dint exactly get off to a good start. We [Ashish,

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This is a place holder. I shall update the contents later.

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DAY 1 – SATURDAY, 23RD JULY 2005 Had to wake up early at 4:30 because flight was at 7:30. Left the house at 5:45. First, we took an Air Sahara flight to New Delhi. It was more or less on time. Our seats were right next to the wing so we had a restricted view of the “scenery”. Anyway since we were cruising at an altitude of 36000 feet it hardly mattered. We reached Delhi airport around

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