I planned to take a night bus from Srinagar to Jammu but a few hours before, Iqbal told me he will go to Jammu with his car the day after. So I joined him in his comfortable SUV on the…
Srinagar
We finally arrived in Srinagar by the sunset, the summer capital of Kashmir. The most popular place to stay in this touristic city is in one of the thousands house boats in the Dal lake, the beautiful lake in the…
Ladakh to Kashmir
I was thinking about leaving Leh directly the day after climbing Sock Kangri, but met Heidi and Stefan, a German couple, who proposed me to share a car to Srinagar on the 17th and 18th. So I enjoyed the 16th…
At 6125m in the top of Stock Kangri
I stayed the 11th in Leh to rest and organize the next expedition: a 4 days trek to Stock Kangri at 6123m! We were supposed to be a 5-people group but 3 postponed the trek because of the weather. So…
Bike tour in Nubra Valley
Back in Leh, I rented a mountain bike for the next days: I took one of the best of the shop, a Giant with disc brakes. The biking company usually proposes daily tour to get down from the Kardung La,…
Leh and around
Leh is still quite a remote place. While becoming very touristic with plenty of travel agencies and restaurants, most of them are just opened 4 months a year, the road to Leh being closed during the winter. There is also…
Journey from Delhi to Leh, Ladakh
Arrived in Delhi from Thailand, I met Manisha at our CS host Gautam. We went straight to buy the ticket for the first leg: Delhi to Manali. Waiting for the city bus, getting to the bus terminal close to the…
Khao Sok National Park
For my last days in Thailand, I went to the jungle in the Khao Sok national park, which main entrance is 100km west from Surat Thani. Sunday the 19th was spent mostly on the ferry and road from Kho Samui…
Angthong National Marine Park
The Angthong National Marine Park is an archipelagos of more than 40 islands, west from Kho Samui. It is reachable by daily tours: a tour boat starts from Kho Samui about 8:30 am, stop in one island for some hours,…
Diving in the Gulf of ThailandTauchen in den Golf von ThailandPlongée dans le golfe de Thailande
The main motivation to come into these islands was diving. And for that, the best is Koh Tao. So I stayed 2 full days in Big Blue dive resort, one of the biggest in the island and in the top…