Over 2000 Km by road, in around 10 days. Stunning landscapes, wonderful people. That sums up our Ladakh trip. But how did it actually work? How did we make it happen? Read on to find out! Leh, the capital of Ladakh , is accessible by air and road. Flying into Leh is the easiest, and time-saving option, while the road is the time consuming one, but with the added advantage of driving past some of the most beautiful landscapes in our country. Each option has much to recommend it, and we chose the road for just one reason – altitude sickness. Altitude sickness was one of my biggest concerns, since I suffer from motion-sickness. Yes, I do travel a lot, but that is despite my condition, and, over the years, have learnt how to handle it. I struggled with it when we visited Nathu-La in Sikkim, and wondered if I would be able to manage a week at the even higher altitudes that we would encounter in Ladakh. This was the reason we stuck to a basic plan, of only 9 days in Ladakh, though we
A bull which drove away
invaders, three buffaloes said to be demons, a lake once said to have been
filled with ghee and a temple once covered in lime to protect it – we couldn’t
help but smile as we listened to these stories about Achalgarh. We had a day
free at Mount Abu and were in the mood to explore, so we headed out for the
tourist circuit, trusting our driver to take us to some interesting places.
Achalgarh turned out to
be the first on his list, and as we headed along roads with farms interspersed
between the mountains, with scarcely a person to be seen anywhere, I wondered
about the place we were going to. I had heard a bit about Achalgarh before we
started, and knew that it had once been the capital of the area. The name
indicated the presence of a fort, but our driver told me that there was no fort
there. “Bas, mandir hai, Madam” he
said. ”There is only a temple there.” I felt my enthusiasm droop at the idea of
visiting yet another temple, but we had already turned on the road to
Achalgarh, so there was no turning back.
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interesting.. we had gone to mount abu too but i think i forgot about this temple. i loved mount abu trip
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