In the end managed to get an impression of the activity around the return of the herds. Not yet the beautiful pictures that we saw on the Darter website for this tour, but still nice overview. For me I would say the kids made the day.
This day we use to get to our high camping ground. Heading for Taglang La it is according the signs the second highest motor-able pass (17582ft or 5328m). When I am up I remember the pass from my first trip to Leh, only didn't recognise the road as it was much worse the first time. This time only a small stretch of bad road and exactly there on of the guys on the motors lost control. And looked like only his ego and confidence got hurt. The complete ride and also on the top we could notice that we were heading for the closure of the season. Empty pass more or less, having also this one just for us. Getting to the bottom of the mountain at least a stretch that was more or less flat. Here we turned of the road and got onto the sandy road that would bring us to the nomads. Also here they were working on the road, which means we needed to leave the "track" and ride along in the old tracks or find our own. After some time of searching for the best part of the road we arrived at our camping place just outside the set of houses used for camping by the nomads. Higher up the mountains they used tents but here the first permanent housing was used. For us the dinning hall and kitchen tent were already standing and up and running. After lunch and tea the first sheep and goats were coming back, so start of the course on catching them. Finding the light and angle to get a nice photo, that all with out the capability to run around as the height didn't give us really much breathing space. In the end managed to get an impression of the activity around the return of the herds. Not yet the beautiful pictures that we saw on the Darter website for this tour, but still nice overview. For me I would say the kids made the day. Early dinner and after that getting into the sack for a long night sleep.
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