My Backpacking Story to India Sept 2019 (Day 4)

My Backpacking Story to India Sept 2019 (Day 4) 11/9/2019

We started our journey pretty early around 8.20 am. On the way, we stopped at a few beautiful places to shoot some pictures.

We did not prepare any oxygen tank before reaching Khardungla Pass which is one of the highest motorable roads in the world with a height of 17,000 ft.

The pass on the Ladakh Range is north of Leh and is the gateway to the Shyok and Nubra valleys. The Siachen Glacier lies partway up the latter valley. Built-in 1976, it was opened to public motor vehicles in 1988. Maintained by the Border Roads Organisation, the pass is strategically important to India as it is used to carry supplies to the Siachen Glacier. - Wikipedia

The weather is so freaking cold and dry so you can easily get snow blindness. Thanks to the thick jacket! I managed to survive the weather.

Ladakh is the one of the India military bases as this the border to China, Pakistan, and Tibet so basically you can commonly see military trucks everywhere along the route and of course countless check and Permit.

After that, we went to Hunder in Nubray Valley. Nubra Valley is extremely beautiful, to be honest. The sand dunes are there very scenic. It was really tiring traveling for long hours from Leh but yeah we cannot miss the sand dunes. They have a lot of sand camels over there where you can pay have ride on it but thinking on the humanity side I don't really find it encouraging or good to try. we took alot of good photos. super nice pictures. I even dress as ladakhi to take some photos 😝 

Okay. This is really Funny. I was too scared to go near yet I am kinda interested to get a close selfie with the Camel. haha At least half of the camel can be seen there.

You can see donkeys over there as well. Pretty much a lot all over the Hunder Sand Dune. They carry a lot of things at the back of them as well. I felt very sad for the donkeys to be honest.

This is me in Ladakhi costume ☺I paid RM10 to try this costume but I wanted to try badly so I decided to go for it. 

Hunder is an amazing place basically where the people there very friendly and approachable. Our homestay aunty treats us like their own children and they even cook for us fried rice. The housemate aunty explained many things to us about Ladakh and thank god she is really good at English.

  

To be frank in that cold weather and especially when you are super hungry, that fried rice with egg is heaven. After chit-chatting for a while, we decided to go to bed as we need to wake up early tomorrow.  Thats for the 4th Day. hihi I do no have the aunty pic. omg thats so sad.