{"id":1695,"date":"2009-07-16T11:04:26","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T05:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2009-07-16T11:04:26","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T05:34:26","slug":"trekking-in-ladakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/trekking-in-ladakh.html","title":{"rendered":"Trekking in Ladakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stan Sesser goes to Ladakh for a trek, and comes back impressed about many things &#8211; it&#8217;s landscapes, friendly people and ancient culture.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My trip began with an early-morning flight from New Delhi, with views of snow-covered peaks reflecting the rising sun\u2014and a heart-stopping descent into Leh through a mountain pass, when the airplane\u2019s wing tips seemed to scrape the rocks on each side. To avoid potentially fatal altitude sickness, visitors must spend their first three days at 10,600 feet in Leh doing as little walking as possible\u2014which isn\u2019t as hard as it sounds; one can hire a vehicle for visits to ancient monasteries in the countryside.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204621904574243801116357472.html\" target=\"_blank\">Himalayan Mountain High<\/a> on the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stan Sesser goes to Ladakh for a trek, and comes back impressed about many things &#8211; it&#8217;s landscapes, friendly people and ancient culture. My trip began with an early-morning flight from New Delhi, with views of snow-covered peaks reflecting the rising sun\u2014and a heart-stopping descent into Leh through a mountain pass, when the airplane\u2019s wing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-rl","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}