After doing the Zanskar, we did a 2 day trip on the upper Indus. The Indus is obviously a pretty cool river, starting on the Tibetan plateau in China/Tibet, then flowing into and through India where it gains a lot of flow in the Ladakh region, a lot of which comes from the Zanskar, and then continuing its mission into Pakistan.
This section of whitewater was my favorite so far in
India. It was basically bigish water
class Iv and IV+, which let us bomb through some fun and pretty big rapids in
an incredible canyon. We met up with
whitewater legend Polly Green the day before, who has been working on a
filiming project in Leh. She is an
amazing boater and led us through all these rapids for both days. We had a great camp on a beach on the side of
the river. All in all we floated about
30 miles or so from just above the Army Base in Kiari to Upshi.
A big load of boats ready to go play, leaving the Oriental Guest House. If you are ever in Leh, definitely stay here, great family and staff - so genuine, helpful and friendly, great food,
Oriental Garden, a lot of food comes from this little Shangri La every day for the meals cooked from scratch
Traffic in Leh
Building a Buddhist temple, fun to watch. Check out the scaffolding setup. This is part of the facility where we saw the Dalai Lama speak to about 10,000 Ladahki's and Tibetan refugees later in the week.
Cool writing all over the place on the rocks
Big ole monastery
The equipment is not exactly the newest
Beautiful place for a farming community, check out these granite gorges
Many hands make light work, and the ladder is functional but scary
Wow
Misty clouds in the desert, it looks surreal
Polly floating into a cool bridge
More cool writing, how did they get there?
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