It’s been a lovely homestay. Last night we assembled, as always in the front room for supper, joined by four […]


It’s been a lovely homestay. Last night we assembled, as always in the front room for supper, joined by four […]

Day five of the Markha Valley trek takes you up to the Kongmaru-La pass at 5,260M or 17,250 feet in […]

The Markha Valley trek has actually been relatively gentle with us so far, even though it hasn’t always felt like […]

It’s amazing what a bit of sleep can do. We actually felt more or less ready to walk to Hankar […]

Last night’s supper was a robust affair. A delicate spicy/sour vegetable soup with crispy poppadoms followed by platefuls of fat […]

Ok so this is what we came here for and after four days of getting used to being at cruising […]

We’ll get to the snow in a bit, but first to Leh Palace! Built by King Sengge Namgyal in the […]

There isn’t a whole lot to the village of Nimmu. A few tiny crumbling houses being rapidly overshadowed by some […]

We’re in the village of Nimmu in Kashmir. I’m sitting in the shade of an apricot tree in the orchard […]

It used to be only weatherbeaten Australians who talked about “Overlanding” and then mostly in the context of driving sheep […]