Home Advertise with us RSS Contact Us Back to main page Passionate readers Feeds Get in touch with us Destinations Hotels Adventure Trips Transport Ladakh in Winter in Pictures When you get to visit Ladakh within the first ten days of a new year you know it started on the right note. Ladakh is really special for me. It was the first place I wrote about on this blog! My life looked up after I visited Ladakh in 2005, I am hoping for something similar after this visit a decade later! To begin with here is Ladakh in winter in pictures! The Hosts- Grand Dragon Ladakh Travel Tales from India I am Mridula Dwivedi and I started blogging on 'Travel Tales from India' in June 2005. Within a few months of the launch my travel blog found a mention on both the BBC and The Guardian. I also The Grand Dragon Ladakh featured in a National Geographic Skoda Yeti My hosts for this trip were The Grand Dragon Ladakh. With the Video. temperatures in minus for most of our stay, I appreciated my I quit my job as a centrally heated room a lot! This post is an overview of my trip. You professor in May 2015. I will get to read in detail about the various aspects of visiting Ladakh am having a blast ever in winter later! I am so grateful to the Grand Dragon and their PR since. I do not miss my partners for providing me a fabulous start to 2016! work but sometime I do miss my salary! Somewhere along the journey I ended up acquiring a Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur! I now wonder why? You can write to me at mridulablog at gmail dot com For advertising queries please check out my advertising page. The View from My Room! My room faced the Sotk Range of mountains. This was the view I woke up to daily. As Leh is at the height of 11,500 feet we took the first day easy and just lounged about in the hotel! Day 1- Gustor Festival at Spituk Monastery, Shanti Stupa, Leh MailChimp Signup Form First Name Type your name Last Name [email protected] The Gustor Festival at Spituk Monastery, Leh Type your email One of the highlights of our trip was attending the first day of the Gustor festival at the Spituk Monastery. In a crowd of thousands there must have been about 40 odd tourists, out of which our group Submit contributed 14 members! The mask dance festival was attended primarily by the locals! Recent Blog Shanti Stupa, Leh UE Boom Bluetooth Speakers by Ultimat... I recently got UE Boom Bluetooth Speakers by Ultimate Ea... February 27, 2016 Natural Therapy – Witnessing the A... Lonavala is a perfect hill station destination when in Pu... February 26, 2016 When My World Turned Upside Down Sunset at the Shanti Stupa, Leh in a... Have you experienced a Our second stop for the day was at the Shanti Stupa in the evening. moment when your world With the temperatures firmly in minus, it was cold! I was happy to turns upsid... head back to the heated car and the heated hotel! February 25, 2016 Day 2- Chilling, Alchi and Lamayuru Royal Suite at Umaid Bhawan Palace, J... In my excitement of staying at the Maharani Suite, I comp... February 24, 2016 Category Select category Zanskar River in Winter! Archive We had a long day on Day 2 and I was looking forward to it! Our first Select Month stop was supposed to be Chilling, the starting point of the Chadder Trek. But as the Border Roads Organization (BRO) was blasting about 10 km before Chilling we had to give up our quest but not before we saw the beautiful Zanskar River trying hard to freeze. Travel Tales from India 20,344 likes Lamayuru, Ladakh Like Page Be the first of your friends to like this Search for: Search … Search Gonomads Blogs Max Hartshorne's Readuponit GoNOMAD Travel Website Stephen Hartshorne's Looking out to Lamayuru Village! Armchair Travel We stopped at Lamayuru Village first. It has a fabulous monastery Paul Shoul`s Round where we were the only visitors! It is beautiful as any village in World Photo Ladakh! Sonja Stark`s PilotGirl Travel Alchi, Ladakh Blog Travel News Notes - Daily Travel Articles GoNOMAD's Travel Reader Blog Esha Samajpati's Miles to Go Blog Kate Cosme's Running in Circles Max Johnson's Max Globetrotter John Henderson's Living in Rome Alchi, Ladakh blog Alchi is one of the oldest monastery in Ladakh. It has four complexes with stunning paintings on its walls. To preserve it, no photography is allowed inside it. Tag Clouds Beautiful Vistas on Day 2 Manyeleti Game Reserve Suryagarh Rishikesh MMT Wildlife EBC Sea Make My Trip Everest Base Camp Trek Hiking Jaisalmer Andaman Trekking Bangkok Postaday2011 Vire more tags Day two was equally memorable for the beautiful landscapes we saw all along our drive. We gave the drivers a very tough time, asking them to stop almost at every bend! This was somewhere near Lamayuru! Have a look Indus River near Alchi, Ladakh Our young driver Tashi was extremely patient with us. On this day I was sharing the car with fellow bloggers Swati and Sam and we had a wonderful time! Day 3- Thiksey and Chemdey Monasteries A Young Lama at the Morning Prayers, Thiksey Monastery We attended the morning prayers at the Thiksey Monastery to start the Day 3. While this was not the first occasion when I attended the prayers at a monastery it was certainly a first in the winter! It was followed by the breakfast at a local village nearby. Chemdey Monastery, Ladakh The Chemdey Monastery, Ladakh We shared the Chemdey Monastery with a few locals. There were no tourists other than us! It was certainly cold but it was a pleasure to have almost the whole Ladakh to us! Our last official stop was at the home of a local oracle. But we made many unofficial stops while coming back to the hotel! This in nutshell was my first trip of 2016. I am blessed that I got to see winter in Ladakh with my base at the luxurious Grand Dragon Hotel. I will write separate, detailed posts on each of the aspects of this cherished trip. But to begin with, I could not resist showcasing.