Tid Bit Poet

Tid Bit Poet

Sunday 29 March 2015

Leh!

This has been those trips which happens once in your life time, every day has actually been like a dream.

I have never before seen mountains and rivers and trees and grass and water of such colour, it was like every dream, every poster, every story i have ever read, every imagination came to reality.
Crimson and yellow and gray and black and a thousand shades of brown mountains and turquoise blue and green and gray and golden and transparent water with the grass gone brown underneath on its bed dancing to the tune of the flow of water. 
With free cows and horse and dogs and donkeys and yaks on mountain tops and mountains sides and in the valleys gazing with no worries.
Sand dunes and double hump camels.

 Endless rides, crossing some of the highest passes in the world, understating what altitude sickness is, appreciating maggi all over again, sitting on top of the car for the ride of your life, getting up at 4 to see the sunrise and not sleeping till late 12 just to gaze the constellation,  randomly offering your comfortable car seat to a just met friend to be found to be riding a 100 km+ in the ghats for the first time ever on a suped up enfield with smoking breaks, literally. from cycling down from the worlds highest motorable road i.e 18000+ ft to about 11000 ft, endless walks and the run to the top of the shanti stupa to only find your self to be collapsed later on, meeting new people, getting to know your world better, from new friends across the globe to making the local tourist shop your adda for the day, some quite intense conversations, Julay and Julia :P to shivering like a teen when randomly talking to this beautiful Indian woman, to lots of moments and unforgettable memories.

Ladkah is a place like no other, and even after all these beautiful landscapes and nature and blah wblah, its the people which make this place a true paradise, such beautiful women, such happy people around, ladkahi people are by far the most happy people i have seen around :)