Leh Trip for me

Everybody makes checklists for life..things that they want to do, places that they want to go..

I too have a checklist and Ladakh did not feature in it for good 30 years of my life. I went to Ladakh..and I came back. Almost a year down the line, I realise what the trip actually was. It was something that I could have never made a checklist for, because it demands a kind of vision I never had.

The terrain is difficult for sure. The height, the roads,the weather – none of it is easy to the slightest extent. More dangerously, it is unpredictable, something that urban educated workers are not used to. We are so used to planning things on excel sheet, that it is almost difficult to understand as to why the road has broken down? How can mm of rains get towns crashing? Why are roads so difficult to make on perfectly flat plains? How come within kms, the green turns to brown?

Most impotantly – To travel to Ladakh you need TIME and HEALTH. This combination, to say the least is a rare one. On a rare occasion like today, when I try to think that will there be another time when I can go to ladakh..or could there have been any other time ..the answer is no. Life seems to be getting busier by the minute and health weaker by the hour.

While, there will always be a desire to go back to Ladakh again and again, I don’t know if the opportunity will present itself again.

For once, I can say proudly, that I was destined to see the beautiful terrain of Ladakh, capture its beauty in my heart and tell it to those who lack vision like I did!