Flight Adventures
2015年8月15日, インド ⋅ 🌫 31 °C
Our 1:20AM flight got turned back, after it already left the gate, because that night the airport closed between 1:20AM and 5AM. They did compensate us though with a free pizza from "the Pizza Hutもっと詳しく
Agra Adventures
2015年8月16日, インド ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
We had one day to spend in the Delhi area before our flight north, so we decided to take a train to Agra and see the great Taj Mahal.
That day in Agra was so hot and humid, that I barely rememberもっと詳しく
Agra Adventures - Continued
2015年8月16日, インド ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
The Taj Mahal is nice to look at from afar, inside - not so much. The chaos on the roads of Agra, through which we traveled in our own personal rickshaw, was a great shock for such an Indian newbie asもっと詳しく
Leh Adventures
2015年8月18日, インド ⋅ 🌙 28 °C
At 3500m above sea level, Leh is the capital of the Ladakh region. We spent here two days acclimatizing to the altitude, before going trekking at some even higher altitudes.
All the restaurants in Lehもっと詳しく
Markha Valley Adventures I
2015年8月19日, インド ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
On the first day of our trek we started walking around noon, after the drop off at the start point - Zingchen (3396m). We wanted to have a short day to allow ourselves to acclimatize properly. Theもっと詳しく
Markha Valley Adventures II
2015年8月20日, インド ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Day 2 started with another 800m climb, this time to the Kanda La pass (4950m).
It was a very slow walk. The altitude was starting to get to us. At some point we could barely walk for even ten minutesもっと詳しく
Markha Valley Adventures III
2015年8月20日, インド ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
At the pass we found a place to hide from the wind, and took a long lunch break (plus nap!). The packed lunch we got and Yurutse, and would get at every homestay for the rest of the trek was oneもっと詳しく
Markha Valley Adventures IV
2015年8月21日, インド ⋅ 🌙 19 °C
From Shingo we continued downhill until Skiu (3430m) in a beautiful narrow canyon. In Skiu the trail turns to the South East and starts going gradually uphill. We were in a hurry because we wereもっと詳しく
Markha Valley Adventures V
2015年8月22日, インド ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
After breakfast (all you can eat chapati, jam, honey and butter) one of the locals walked with us to the river crossing and showed us where to cross. We were supposed to have 3 more river crossingsもっと詳しく
Markha Valley Adventures VI
2015年8月22日, インド ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
After a few more river crossings, which became increasingly frustrating, we finally reached Markha (3800m). The village of Markha was hiding really well behind a hill. It's almost like it didn't wantもっと詳しく
Markha Valley Adventures VII
2015年8月23日, インド ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
The walk from Markha to Hangkar (4000m) was supposed to be a short walk, so we allowed ourselves a little detour - we took off our backpacks and hiked up 100m on a very steep trail to a Buddhistもっと詳しく
Markha Valley Adventures VIII
2015年8月23日, インド ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
We got to Hangkar, our final destination for the day, at around 2PM. We decided to stay at the first house of the village and spent a nice afternoon having birthday beers and playing cards. The restもっと詳しく
Markha Valley Adventures IX
2015年8月24日, インド ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
The fist part of the day is memorable for the one break that we took, to put on sunscreen, during which it started raining (+hail!).
The second part of the day consisted of a long climb up to Nimalingもっと詳しく
Markha Valley Adventures X
2015年8月24日, インド ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Nimaling is a small campsite at 4800m, that consists of around 15 tents, which are the coziest tents you will ever sleep in. Even though it was really cold.
There were donkeys, cows, mountains... Weもっと詳しく






















































































