It is exceptionally quiet in #Tabo. There is the sound of the wind, when it blows. There is the incessent tweeting of birds. Nothing else. I have a very good pair of noise cancelling headphones. Turning them on and off makes no difference at all here. It is surreal.
Me: Do you know what B.R.O. stands for?
M1: Bro seriously?
More pics from the sunrise at #Kasauli
Some pics from the #Tabo #monastery. We experienced the monastery and left #Tabo yesterday (Thursday) afternoon. By the evening we had reached #Kaza. We spent our evening in the most beautiful café ever (more on that later). This morning we left Kaza for #PinValley. We reached Mud (मुध) village and then turned around. Then we drove through #Tabo and #Nako to #Pooh.
We have lots and lots of pics to share. Will try my best with the limited connectivity we have. Also pics from the phone and the camera have gotten mixed up, so the time lines are a little off.
M1: How does dad look?
M2: Obese
#savage #burn #thuglife
M1: So rude.
M2: There was this chart in school with height and recommended body weight and according to that chart I think dad is...
I'm going to now try and take you through the grandeur that is the #SpitiValley between #Nako and #Tabo. We did the route on Tuesday, but I've been avoiding putting up pics.
Pictures and videos are too small the capture the vastness, the other worldliness of this place. The only way to know it is to bite the blue pill and come on over to see it for yourself.
You see vast #ridges
You see whatever this is that nature has carved into a mountainside.
I have nothing to say about these structures. Don't ask me what these are. Ask me what they do to you. Once you've seen them, you are in profound awe of what wind, water and time can do.
More of these #portals that don't seem to safeguard much.
All kinds of rock reliefs. We captured maybe ten types. The area easily has over a hundred. This place is a geologist's dry dream.
Earlier today we found snow. More like glacier ice. In #PinValley. Made for a happy kid.
#portal #Tabo #monastery
#portal #Nako
The restaurant at the end of the world.
Or #Nako
Same thing
You would have seen images of villages and monasteries perched precariously at the edge of mountains. Usually people post about Tiger's Nest in Bhutan. Come to #Spiti and you will see this everywhere. Not every village looks down a mountainside. Some look into a green field, if there is a river flowing nearby to feed the field.
#Sagnam
M2 cleans utensils in a natural stream.
No soap was used in the making of photograph. So chill 😁
Pin Valley was something else.
If you're short on time and want to experience the essential #Spiti Valley, just drive from Shimla till #Tabo and return. The road is mostly awesome. There is no need for you to go to Sangla, Chitkul, Nako, Pin, etc. After the awe of the Nako to Tabo section, everything else is a variation of the same theme.
We had to turn back from Kaza because the Manali route wasn't open. Therefore we also missed Ky and Kunzum Top.
बड़े बड़े पहाड़
छोटे छोटे घर
People will make anything home. The human spirit is just wow. These houses have been around for thousands of years.
Sometimes you see a burst of green between the unrelenting rock and snow. And you know a river flows nearby. And a farmer toils hard to protect his field.
Shallow glacier
Steep glacier
For the love of #gushing #water
An interesting #traffic #jam
#trafficjam #yak
❤️
And sometimes the hunter is hunted, unbeknownst to him
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
#food #Kaza
एक और दरवाज़ा #portal
The #Tabo #monastery was all about #peace and #earthy #beauty
Be like water
My friend
#Kaza #Spiti
Bridges were crossed.
Better pics in the DSLR
#portal ?
The #dogs of #Kaza
#goodboy #dogsofinstagram
A weathered tree at the Tabo monastery.
#Tabo #monastery #tree
#posing
People have made great use of the terrain
#painting or #photograph?
#stepfarming the #rocky #terrain
#painting
#painting
The #dogs of #Tabo.
Some not so good boys fighting.
Oh what a beautiful, lovely coincidence. Something that can only happen on the open road. We ran into this family of #Happy #Campers, which is what they literally call themselves. They've built a full #RV on an Isuzu D-Max V Cross. Deepankar showed us around their lovely little home which has all the facilities ones needs, including very powerful air conditioning.
Oh, the stories we have to share. Will be planning a trip together shortly.
The #drive from #Rampur to #Narkand is what #mountain dreams are made of. #Smooth #tarmac, wide #road, breathtaking scenery.
The #hills of #Narkand are on #fire.
Deepankar, Shushmita and Isa Basu sent us this pic shortly after our chance meeting, with the caption "join us?". OMG omg omg #goals #love #soawesome
Send them oohs, aahs and cheers, everyone.
#happiness
#cherries #vanlife #HimachalPradesh
#cherry #trees 🍒
View from our #campsite for the night. Gotta scramble and #pitch #tent.
#moonrise over the #campsite.
The #tarp is laid out. The instant #tent is popped up. The foam #mattresses have been laid out in the tent. And the sleeping #bags have been thrown in. We move fast inspite of the trechorous path to the site.
The #hammock is up, the #stakes have been dug in, and we are sitting at the #table preparing to fix #dinner.
And just like that, we #cooked ourselves some #camp #dinner
Good morning y'all. Sending good vibes from our cherry and apple orchard to you. Not sending any real 🍒 or 🍏 though 😀
Not sure if apples or apricots. Would you know?
सेब ही हैं 😀 🍏
छोटे से
In a hurry last night, we had pitched tent on a slight slope. The upper half is on a slope, the lower half is flat.
When we tried sleeping, we were rolling all over the place 😂. So we turned 90°. This morning the kids had slipped halfway to flat part of the tent.
Not a good way to sleep. So I'm letting them sleep in this morning. They need the rest after all the traveling down from Kaza.
#hammock time
The most #amazing #breakfast setting ever 😍 🥣
It's a doing nothing, going nowhere kind of day.
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