Jammu and Kashmir Travel and Tourism Guide

  As springtime warmed, the buds of trees began to slowly blossom and tint the landscape green. Eager owners anxiously prepared for the approaching summer season by scrubbing their houseboats with bristle brushes, brooms, and buckets of lake water. Docks were painted and Dal Lake took on a fresh appearance.   Four large swim-boats were positioned onto the middle of the lake. They had the same hull and flat-top roof as the massive houseboats but no walls, their sides open. Swimme...

Srinagar was an interesting experience. the army guy who looked super angry tried to get me to go back on the plane before i even set foot on kashmiri concrete. he was like shouting at the stewardess in unknown language and pointing at me - probably something along the lines of "get this white girl out of here." or something. well eventually after pointing at the word srinagar on my ticket he gave up and gruffly pointed for me to wander in front of runways to get to the arrivals hall. then of...

Took me almost 10 days to get here from Delhi, mostly because I stayed for a week in Vashisht (next to Manali). The drive from Manali to Leh was crazy, 23 hours in a Jeep, cramped with 11 more people inside, smoking, and cold weather. The driver fell asleep too many times in the last hours and it got to be really scary. Other than that, the ride was amazing, beautiful scenary, very high passes (the highest is around 5350 meters). Leh itself is a beautiful city, sitting on a plaque at 35...

It was one crazy trip I did alone on my bike .....the round trip I did was from Pune to Leh...... Leh is a magical destination ...one has to see it to believe it !!! The worlds highest motorable road is in Leh ....let my pictures tell you everything