I love traveling and we try to get out at least twice a year, if not more. We travel within India; foreign tourism is just too expensive for our pockets. Even within India, we are budget travelers. I like my hotel room to cost somewhere around Rupees 500 to 1000 (one dollar is roughly equal…
Author: Mridula Dwivedi
On the Top: Leh-Manali Highway, at Pang
Some places are unforgettable and Pang is one of them. You cross it while traveling on the Leh Manali highway. Needless to say, this photograph is taken at Pang, on Leh-Manali route. The tents in the picture are food tents. If you are breaking your journey, you will find a place to sleep as well….
Trees and Some Snow: Har-Ki-Doon, Uttaranchal India
Who took this photo: There is a dispute about this picture in my house, my young and naughty nephew claims he took it whereas I remember taking this one myself. Either way, both of us remember this beautiful trip. My nephew saw snow for the first time on this trip and I for the second…
Har Ki Doon, Uttarakhand, India
We trekked in Har-Ki-Doon Valley in the year 2004 though Youth Hostel Association of India (YHAI). The picture was taken on the route from Seema to Har-Ki-Doon. I still remember our walk through the paddy fields. On the way we met some women working on the field and their sweet smiles. Living for a few…
The People of Ladakh: Toni and my Husband pose for me
You get used to your surroundings, levels of honesty, bargaining etc according to where you live. For us, living in the National Capital Region of India, it was business as usual to be skeptical of anything and everything. It was in this light that the conversations we had in with people of Ladakh were eye…
The Road Less Traveled: Manali-Leh Highway
If you are traveling to Leh by road it may turn out to be much more than you bargained for. For me it led to philosophical ponderings about my existence or the continuation of it! One can reach Ladakh (Ladakh is in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, but not a troubled region) either by…
The Changla Pass, Ladakh, at 17, 800 feet.
The journey from Leh to Pangong Lake was memorable for so many reasons, most of it for the discomfort! The roads were narrow, broken in places and waterfalls flowing on them at times! But the breathtaking views it had all around. We took a shared jeep from Leh to bring the cost down. There were…
A Trip to the Pangong Lake in Ladakh, India
Pangong Lake was nothing like anything I had ever seen. It was my first glimpse of a high altitude lake and it will forever remain special. And to think that we almost missed it. Our original plan was to trek in Ladakh. But it was not meant to be. I had to give up the…
Manali: The Plastic Heaven
A few days back, I was in a famous hill station in India, Manali. It has got a cool climate, fabulous hills and trees, apart from other attractions like temples and monasteries. It draws a large number of people from all over India for the holiday season. With it comes the malaise of plastic and…
In the Middle of the Main Market, Leh, india
My husband had to buy something from the local market called Moti Market. I was too tried. I just sat on the steps opposite this monastery with other Tibetan people. This was quite close to the main market in Leh. I was reading a book sitting outside in the wide courtyard and inside a prayer…