Experience: Stay at Khaltse
The travel from Kargil onwards had turned into a great ride with sunshine warming our hearts and minds. After being nearly frozen while riding from Dass to Kargil, the sun was welcome more than ever! We had reached Khaltse, a small town at well beyond sleeping time. Luckily we found a small restaurant open, asked for a guest house and found one nearby… the owners were awake too! First thing, we settled in then had dal-rice and eggs.
We inquired if thukpa soup was available, sadly it wasn’t at that time. It had to wait another day.
After arranging bed and dinner, everyone was looking forward to offloading the processed food we were carrying inside ourselves! Uh… yes, that part was still to be finished. Shrenik was the first one to get the culture shock ;-) He was in a hurry, nearly ran out and in moments, ran back to the room with a worried look he declared “I can’t do this!”
Apparently, the local toilets are pretty uninviting. A fact we were all to find out and come to terms with. Anyway, a separate post on that is already drafted… ;-)
So the sun rose again next morning, so did we rise and shine. Met the house owner’s kids, a very friendly bunch. One of them is a Lama. We played a bit, chatted for a while…
In some time they were all over our stuff!
