Trekking peaks abound in the Tso Kar/Tso Moriri area, and as we find it hard to resist a nice high altitude trek it had always been our plan to try climbing a few. But we hadn’t reckoned with the fickle…
How was the singletrack? Tso-Tso? No, it was great!
Our main frustration with cycling in Ladakh has been simple: a lack of really quiet roads. (Well, a lack of quiet roads that foreigners are allowed on – we’ve seen lots of great looking tracks near the Chinese border on…
La la, la la la
One of our biggest motivations for coming to Ladakh was to cycle some high roads, so from Leh we set off for 12 days of ‘La bagging’. First up the Khardung La, which despite all evidence to the contrary the…
Pushing and Puking over Rusi La
“One pen, two chiclets…..” the children continued. “Where are you going?” “To the Rusi La!” we cried. Although we’d enjoyed the challenge of pushing over the Shingo La we weren’t quite ready to repeat the experience, so in Tikat began…
Ghost towns and Glaciers
Mulling over the Dalai Lama’s wise words we set off up the Doda valley. With HH teaching for a further 2 days in Padum we rode through deserted Buddhist villages and glorious mountain scenery. Along each side valley we glimpsed…