WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF MEETING a YouTube sensation in a three-house village deep in the remote Zanskar Valley in Ladakh? Pretty low, you would say. She sings, and she writes lyrics too. Stanzin Garskit is a vivacious young lady, a graduate of Hindustani music from Miranda House, Delhi. She is at home cheerfully rolling out aloo parathas along with Stanzin Dolma, her mother, in their kitchen. She is bustling around, handing us our blankets as we are about to turn in. Her family is hosting us, a weary ragtag bunch of ‘Jeepers’. We are on an expedition to the barely seen parts of Ladakh, with the Zanskar region being the most significant part of our itinerary.
Wander Beyond Boundaries, which facilitates extreme off-roading adventures, is co-owned by Nidhi Salgame and Col Satty Malik SM (retd.). Nidhi is a driving record holder — the first Indian to drive solo to Siberia, to the coldest inhabited place on earth. Safety is a decorated officer of the Indian Army and has handled many challenging assignments in Kashmir, northeast India and Congo.
I have a love-hate relationship with them. I love traveling with them; Ladakh was my fourth expedition with them in just over two years. I hate it when they tell me, rather unceremoniously, to wake up at 3.30 am and commence the drive at 4.30 am. After each trip, I resolve not to travel with them, and each time when they announce a new expedition, I succumb. So here I was, signing up to an extreme 1,200 kilometres, 13-day self-drive expedition across rarely visited west and south Ladakh areas.
この記事は Outlook Traveller の October 2021 版に掲載されています。
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7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。
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