Five Weeks in Ladakh, Complete with a Flood (July / August 2010)

Our amazing, yet tragic, five weeks in Ladakh, India. We helped sponsor an eye clinic for nomads at 5,000m, met the Dalai Lama, failed to do a trek but instead shoveled mud for a week. The five weeks that changed our lives forever.

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21 July – Melanie gets a Delhi special

22 July – We are high in Leh!

23 July – We came to walk, but I had the runs

24 July – Meeting our fellow sponsors & travelers

25 July – Over the clouds to the Nubra Valley

26 July – Hanging out with monks & nuns

27 July – We meet His Holiness!

28 July – Back to Leh

29 July – A king and a monastery

30 July – Monasteries & climbs

31 July – Saboo & the family

1 August – To Tsomoriri for the eye clinic

2 August – Day one at the eye camp!

3 August – Eye clinic and a calming practice trek

4 August – Eye clinic and a celebration of us?

5 August – Resting, partying and looking forward to our trek

6 August – Tragedy, uncertainty and anger

7 August – A convoy towards Leh

8 August – A convoy toward and away from Leh

9 August – Finally in Manali we shower!

10 August – Hanging out in Weedville

11-15 August – Planning our escape from Weedville

16 August – Transit day in Delhi

17 August – Finally back in Leh

18 August – Shoveling mud and bowing to royalty

19 August – More mud

20 August – Mud, monks & monasteries

21 August – Back to the hospital

22 August – More mud, more hospital

23 August – Back to Singapore

Justin’s excellent video of the eye clinic – Nomadic Eyes

A video of my photos from the whole trip

The Dalai Lama’s talk to Westerners

The Ladakh Cloudburst: An Eyewitness Account