So here's the thing about Leh; it's remote as fuck. Seriously. There was no Internet for three days when we rocked up and the town often loses connectivity. Apparently they have one line that comes in from Srinagar and if the weather is bad and the line goes down, boom, no Internet, and the only [...]
Khardung La. At 5602 metres above sea level the locals would have you believe it's the highest motorable road in the known universe and will sell you appropriately branded t-shirts that'll shrink if they so much as come within two metres of a washing machine and dye everything you own a kind of blueish colour. [...]
Roads in this region and all the way down to Manali are maintained by the Border Roads Organisation, or BRO for short. BRO loves you and doesn't want to see you career off a dodgy road to your untimely and no doubt messy death. Most of the roads are pretty shit around here, probably because [...]
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