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I'll be leaving you all with the last part of Spitified in today's post. Take your time and soak in all the beautiful places and the mesmerizing view of Spiti. There are so many reasons to travel because when you travel, you learn, have adventures, meet new people, feel more alive, get to know yourself a little more, experience new cultures, know new languages and the most important of all, life is too short to not travel. Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things like air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky, the mountains. The journey changes you and it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart and on your body. You take something with you and hopefully, you leave something good behind.



Lhalung - Dhankar - Tabo : At times, we reach the heights of laziness and even being on a trip to such a beautiful place, we literally failed to wake up early. Keeping the laziness aside, we still managed to be ready on time and went ahead to have our breakfast. All happy and excited for our last day, we drove off for Lhalung. The name Lhalun literally means 'land of the gods' (lha = deities, lung = land). This mountain is said to change colour depending on the moods of the deities; red showing anger, yellow for happiness etc. It is a small and very beautiful village which has around 45 homes and is 14 km from the main road. Our next destination was Dhankar Monastery. It is situated at an elevation of 3894 metres in the Spiti valley above Dhankar village. The complex is built on a 1000-foot high spur overlooking the confluence of the Spiti and Pin rivers. It is one of the world's most spectacular settings for a monastery. Dang means cliff and Kar or Khar means fort. Hence, Dhankar means fort on a cliff. The final destination for us was Tabo. The town lies on the road between Rekong Peo and Kaza. The town surrounds a Buddhist monastery which is said to be over a thousand years old. You can also go to the Tabo caves. A short 75 step hike from the main road and one can reach the Tabo meditation caves. These caves are where the monks meditate for months during winters. From the caves, one can get a panoramic bird's eye view of the entire town of Tabo and the surrounding regions. You can also tie prayer flags at the top for some good Karma.

Hello people!
Wishing you all a great week ahead and making you all crave for a vacation soon enough with my new post.
To those who stay put, the world is but an imaginary place. But to the movers, the makers, and the shakers, the world is all around, an endless invitation. It is a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it and I don't want to be most of us. Also, you can never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.

Key - Kibber - Chicham : We did have an itinerary in the first to explore Spiti but gave up on it on the first day itself. Knowing we had to wake up the next morning to explore some more new places, we still partied the whole night long. This is totally me and my friends. We always believe to live in the moment. Woke up, freshened up and just drove for our next places. Key gompa (monastery) also spelled as Ki, Key or Kee pronounced like English key is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery located on top of a hill at an altitude of 4166 metres above sea level, close to the Spiti river, in the Spiti valley of Himachal Pradesh, Lahaul and Spiti district, India. It is the biggest monastery of Spiti Valley and a religious training centre for Lamas (monks). It reportedly had 100 monks in 1855. Our next destination was Kibber village. It is situated at an altitude of 4270 metres. It contains a monastery and the Kibber Wildlife Sanctuary. It lies in a narrow valley on the summit of a limestone rock. Moving on to the next destination, we reached Chicham. It has Asia's highest bridge called 'The Chicham Bridge'. It is situated at an altitude of 4145 metres. This a newly built bridge. Kibber used to be the highest motorable village until Komic village took the crown. Previously it used to take 2-3 hours to reach Chicham village from Kibber. But 10 years ago the local people built a ropeway which has never collapsed. It's a manual self-operated ropeway where you have to pull the rope on your own to reach the other side. The vent height of Chicahm bridge is 150 metres. All these beautiful places will remain in our heart forever. The beauty of these places cannot be explained in words. You have to visit it for yourself.