Ladakh and Rajastan 2001

          
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In summer 2001, I travelled in Ladakh and Rajastan with two friends. While we were walking in the mountains, I imagined a beautiful web site where the whole trip would be described in a hexametric epos...

But coming back, many other things became pseudo-important. Also, the stack of photographs is a frightening bulk. So, nothing happened for months.

Now, I have started in small steps. As a first step, I have prepared some pictures of people we saw and met.

It should be said aloud and clear that these pictures were not taken by me but by my companions, Wolfram Ette and Gernot Saalmann. Danke, Wolfram-san & Gernot-ji.

People

[A man reads the morning paper on the roof of his house.] [An old woman near the bus stop in Leh] [Young people at the bus stop in Leh] [Monks working on traditional books in the library of Tiktse monastery.] [Two monks blowing horns in Tiktse, looking over the Indus valley] [Two school boys in front of their small school, in a mountain village in Ladakh] [After eleven days in the mountains, we have reached the Manali-Leh road near Pang] [Two men fishing in a lake near Jaipur] [A juice stall on wheels, with a Sadhu in the background] [Young girl eating at the bus stop in Pushkar] [Vivid discussion in the afternoon in Pushkar] [Chai seller and traveller in Pushkar]

The central purpose of our trip was a hiking tour in the Himalaya in Ladakh. We walked eleven days from Hemis Gompa (a monastery close to the Indus valley) to Pang (a collection of food stalls where the Leh-Manali road meets the Zara Chu river); crossing three passes, Gongmaru La, Zalung Karpo La, and Yar La.

From Hemis Gompa to Gongmaru La

[Hemis Gompa] [View from Hemis Gompa towards the Indus valley] [Getting used to the packs (close to Hemis)] [Cooking on the first evening] [Irrigated fields, the last ones for a long time] [View back from Gongmaru La] [Gongmaru La (5130m)] 

      last modified on: 2005-07-24 05:07 GMT
      (c) 2005 Tobias Rischer, http://rischer.com/

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