Last week, went to a road trip to Spiti valley. Spiti – meaning “the middle land” between India and the Tibet – is much like Laddakh in so many ways yet different in so many other ways. Will find some time to write a detailed post some other day. For now, let me show some photos. 🙂
The map of the journey
Recently I went on a 10 days Road trip to Laddakh and below are some of my attempts to capture the natural beauty with a (borrowed point & shoot) Sony HX100V. (except the last one which is from Sony RX100 taken by my friend.) If you like the photos, please drop a line in comments below to encourage me learning photography.
Since long, I’ve been wanting to go to some hill station by bike and spend some time with nature. The freedom that comes going on a bike (as opposed to public transport), and the ease with which a bike makes places accessible is amazing. Not to mention that riding bike on a national highway, as fast as you can, with wind sweeping across you like you’re flying, is an experience of its own kind!
Luckily having some of the bikers (who have gone to places like Laddakh!) around to inspire you helps (thank you Amit and Javed!). So, now it was only about where to go. I threw the question on Quora and got a suggestion to go to Kasauli which made great sense for us.
Today morning, while going to office on my bike, I met a small accident and it was my fault. Me, and my friend who was sitting behind, were lucky on so many levels, that I am hoping I would be able to walk properly by tomorrow and the friend was able to continue to office today itself after some nursing help. The way we fell far apart from each other and from the bike, I don’t want to imagine what could have been the other outcomes.
Just requesting everyone around to drive more carefully and responsibly. “More” because until something happens, everyone assumes that he drives carefully. Drive carefully, if not for yourself then atleast for those who care about you, who love you.
— Atul(@Atulgoyal) February 29, 2012
Though ever since my childhood, I’ve always loved nature but call it circumstances or my destiny wanting me to wait till this time, have been unable to spend quality time in nature for last several years.