If this is the first time you’ve visited my Ladakh Odyssey series, please first start with Set 1

‘Kargil? Did you say Kargil?”

‘That’s where the war thingy happened, right?’

‘Why are you trying to be brave, it’s plain foolish to put yourself at risk’

And two days before my departure date:

‘You should do a south India trip instead’

There are, in fact, not many reason’s why you’d want to trek among the hot spots of N. India, where, as you’re reading this, people still die for religious & political agendas.

Ah…but those few reasons are still excellent reasons:

Nowhere else in India do you come across a landscape like this, where you’ve got multi-hued mountains (blue included), flowing rivers, patches of green & absolute bare desert terrain, all within a blink of an eye.

If you, like me prefer cool weather, you’re going to get it in spades here.

Visiting the region, seeing army convoys moving through the mountains, speaking to the soldiers on the road, hearing the locals discuss their situation, all help you understand something you didn’t realise you did not comprehend fully before.

I hope the pictures here whet your appetite to check the rest of the album here.