here in what feels like a humid tropical environment but is still at 6000
feet.
This is a tourist town apparently popular with honeymooners where one of
the key things to do is hire a pair of skis and a big jacket then take the
several hour and wild journey up the rotang pass to have your photo taken
in the snow. Not to ski or anything but it is a sign of wealth in most of
India to have even touched snow. We did see some folk sledging, which I
guess even westerners would be hard pushed to give up the chance of doing
when it is 30 degrees just down the road. Oh but what a road. It May have
once been tarmac but due to constant landslides it is in a constant state
of disrepair. We dropped roughly 6000 feet in a single long switchbacking
track. Easily the hardest of the trip due to the state of it and the
oncoming trucks that barely trundle up the slopes and busses seeming hell
bent on their own destruction and willingness to take everyone else with
them.
More to come but as I have insufficient superlatives to describe yesterday,
that will have to wait until I save some up!
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