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Pangong Tso

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And here they fell, The bravehearts in blue Fighting a battle already lost Their blood smeared across its icy cold shores But today nobody cared For all we knew Was the reel shot at the Pangong Tso         The road to Pangong Tso is rather precarious, yet interspersed with some amazing views on the way like the one above. Everywhere you see in the region of Ladakh, the mountains are bare, smooth, multicoloured and unfortunately, pretty fragile. One heavy shower, and the sand and gravel that the mountains are made of might just come tumbling down. They may remind you of the sand mountains made at the beach, flat, once the waves come and go! And that's a pretty scary feeling.  Zzzzzzz....Naa....the first rule of travelling in Ladakh is never to sleep when climbing up or down a mountain, nor when you are in any of the half a dozen highest passes of the world. That basically consists a majority of your journey. So the thumb rule here is, Wake Up Sleepyhe