Leh: Window to Heaven

Guest writer Harshad Kulkarni recently visited Leh & Ladakh with his friends and shares pics of his tour. He and his friends were stranded for a few harrowing days during the flash floods because of the cloud burst - these pics were taken prior to the incident.

From the eerily striated Pangong lake with a gradation of blue from azure to muddy cyan to the ruins of monasteries and its magnificent woodwork, from serene monks basking in the sunlight atop the hills to the many prayer flags blowing in the wind, from the glimpses of the ice-covered mountains from his room's window to the rippling white waters of the stream running between the hills, Harshad lets his camera do the talking.