We've now been in Leh for 10 days, its a place you kind of get stuck in, though maybe we wouldn't still be here was it not for the fact that Ant got horribly ill 72 hours after arriving!We are 90% sure Ant got food poisoning from one particular grotty restaurant, though most are really nice there are some that don't care about standard hygiene.Ant spent the next 5 days being really ill, we'd just visited an ayervedic medicine guy a couple of days before the episo...

Julley (Ladakhi for Hello!) We decided to be adventurous and catch a mini bus 17 hours to Leh, climbing up to 5,000m on roads with 2,000m drops and at one point crossing a path notorious for accidents. The scenery along the way was spectacular, but the whole experience was pretty terrifying to say the least.We were picked up from our hotel at 2am, we'd spend the next 3 hours driving through thick mist climbing up a mountain. The road was barely 2 lanes and the m...