mountains

#Mountains. And the colour #blue.

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#painting or #photograph?

People have made great use of the terrain

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Steep glacier

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.

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.

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.

You see whatever this is that nature has carved into a mountainside.

You see vast #ridges

We have done 1,003 km so far, and the mileage has averaged out to 11.7/100km, over plains and mountains. This is still a lot better than the mileage in Gurgaon, so I’m not complaining.

So far, fuel was our primary cost in this trip. Food was cheap, averaging ₹100 per person for lunch and dinner, and lesser for breakfast. Here at #Tabo, there is so much good food, so much local cuisine to try, that our food bill has gone for a toss. I am frankly not keeping count. We are here to have a good time, not to keep costs low. Enjoying local cuisine is definitely a part of the #roadtrip experience. A good sideeffect is that M1 has stopped asking me when we are going to begin cooking our own food. We have always used our cooking gear when we go camping, except this time. It’s a big let down for him. But now that we are surrounded by pizzas, pancakes, thukpa, samthuk, fresh green salad, phaktse and what not, he doesn’t care about cooking.

A #highaltitude #game of #cricket at #Nako

+1 would make this the logo for our products. Rugged like these rocks.

Chitkul!

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#mountains #snowcappedmountains

Kailash Parvat

कैलाश पर्वत

The awe of it

I like our Coleman instant tent, because it's literally instant. Up in sixty second. But it has no rainfly. Which means all night it was soaking in dew. This morning it's dripping wet. You touch it from the inside and water drains on to you, your electronics and books.

Gotta fashion a rainfly for this guy.

Late start to the morning. Gotta unpack and go now. Chitkul calls.

#vanlife #campinglife

Trying to give you a sense of the fantabulous beauty of our perch. We spent the night in the newly constructed parking lot of the #Ponda Buddhist monastery. Sharing panoramas clearly isn't Instagram's thing. Just made friends with one of the monastery #dogs who was all over me. 🐶😁