so it was a rather last minute decision to go to ladakh.. luckily i ended up at my friend Amy's house in Delhi, and she had all the guide books, and her wonderful husband Ed helped me arrange a bus to Manali. Turns out it's the epicenter of hippy westerner and Indian tourism, so within half an hour of arriving and seeing the hordes of tourists, I decided I may as well make my way directly to Ladakh.. As I was going to investigate the possibility of a bus the next day, a young guy stopped me and asked if I was looking for a way to Leh... Turns out he organizes jeeps to go every morning, leaving at 2 a.m., so that you can make the whole trip in one day. We were supposed to arrive by 6 p.m., but (apparently not uncommonly) there was a landslide, so we had a 3 hour delay while we waited for it to be cleared.
we were actually squashed into the jeep, 10 of us in all! 2 in the front seat, 4 of us in the middle row, and four people in the back (facing sideways!). I was very glad to be in the middle row, although there was a very large indian guy besides me, so we didn't have very much room.
But the view made up for it! o la la, what an epic road! curves and curves and curves - one of the highest road passes in the world, well over 5000 m..
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