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Ladakh: Sindhu Darshan.

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Day 2 on the tour!  Leh is a beautiful place with amazing scenic view. Anywhere and everywhere! A striking feature that one could find in Leh is – Mountains covered with snow peaks on one end of the city, whereas the other is just sand hills with no trees at all. It was more like a cold desert. Leh is about 12,000 ft high, so to get used to atmosphere out there is quiet a task. A minimum rest of about 24 hours is more of compulsion than a necessity. We took a day rest, felt fine. A totally unpredictable climate makes the stay bit uneasy. A minute you think its all normal and slip into a t-shirt, you realize it’s high time that you put on a coat or two to beat the cold. Plus the inexperience of staying at such high altitudes make things change pretty uncomfortable. To start off exploring the places, we went to Sindhu Darshan Festival, celebration of Sindhu River, which gave India its name. Also, mine! ;) Sindhu Darshan:  To mark the importance of River...