We will be flying out of Leh early in the morning. Tomorrow afternoon we should be in Kathmandu, Nepal. Looking forward to some good Dal Bhat. We are ready to leave Leh even though we have had a really good time and have met some interesting people here. We hope that Bryan and Mary and Bill and Mary - two other US couples have made it safely to their next destination. So as our friends group begins to dissolve it is time to go. Angchok took us to dinner last night as a going away and brought his 12 year old son. We had a good time.
As we discuss the last month we can't believe all the different things we saw and did. We laugh saying that if this were all and we were heading home we would have had a rich trip.
The home stay trek in Sham Valley was great and introduced us to the traditional Ladakhi home life and food.
The Nubra Valley trip was so beautiful and we saw what a traditional Muslim village is like. Being that close to Pakistan and the fighting on the high glacier was sobering and brought the threat of agressive neighbors close to us - we are lucky to not have that in the US.
The Markah Valley trek was challenging for us but was a real highlight to our trip. Remote villages and high passes and our first pony trek. Really nice, happy people. Great time.
Seeing and spending some time with the Nomads above Tsomoriri Lake was very interesting -- we live such a Cush life and are many times unhappy while these people live a hard life and seem to be very happy. A couple who just returned from there told us the Nomads had now moved on to lower grazing areas.
Snow level on the mountains around Leh has moved down a bunch the last few days and it has been raining here and getting colder. New people are showing up daily but are younger and have the look of real outdoor people. They will be trekking in much colder and snowy conditions than we did.
We are working to select a suitable trek in Nepal and have already started talking about what food we want first and what restaurants we will go to first! As John says - Food is an adventure!
We will write from Nepal as soon as we can.
Darryl and Susan
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