A return to the land of mountain passes

Wow, it’s been a hectic last few weeks for me and my apologies for not posting for a while.

The good news is that I’ve made it to the end of all the hecticness, and I will soon be leaving for my first real foreign holiday since December 2019 – which now seems an age away in a parallel universe (and for all I know, it probably is).

The venue for our adventure is Ladakh in northern India, a desert region north of the Himalayan watershed. The name ‘Ladakh’ translates as ‘Land of Mountain Passes’, b...