Tso Moriri Trip
Here’s a small set of photos from a three-day trip with the Koreans, Tenzin the driver, and my Ladakhi friend Nurboo. We visited Tso Moriri and Tso Kar Lakes, the nomads who live around them, a couple of monasteries, and the Rumtse area where the Indian and Asian continents collided. It wasn’t a great photo [...]
Rainy Day Trip
Today the Koreans and I hired a jeep and visited four monasteries in Ladakh: Taktok, Chemrey, Stakna and Matho. It was a rainy day which is unusual for Ladakh, but it’s happening more frequently in the past few years due to global warming (and is having disastrous effects on the walls and murals of the [...]
Living, working and moving on
After vowing that I’d never wait tables again, I have to eat my words. For the past week I’ve waited tables at Norlak, the little Tibetan restaurant where I’ve eaten daily since arriving in Leh. I knew that the place was short staffed (their cook left a few weeks ago, tourists have been pouring into [...]
Road to Lamayuru
I was invited by a few of the dentists working for the dZi Foundation to go on a day trip to the monasteries at Lamayuru and Alchi, and since I hadn’t been on a single road trip since I arrived over a month ago and can’t pass up a trip to a monastery I thought [...]
