A plaintive singing drifted through the camp; similar to the Buddhist prayer songs we had heard while staying with a family in Kham, the easternmost cultural kingdom of Tibet, on our In Search of Shangri-La journey. The singing was strangely …
We rode out of Leh, a long downhill we would pay for later, with growing excitement and more than a little trepidation. Facing us were four passes, one of them the second highest in the world, several days between 15,000 …
We’ve often said on these trips abroad that we would like to stay in one place for a while and get a feel for the place and the people. To give the locals a chance to get a good look …