{"id":2300,"date":"2009-10-19T05:36:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T00:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2009-10-18T18:41:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T13:11:47","slug":"treks-and-travels-in-ladakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/treks-and-travels-in-ladakh.html","title":{"rendered":"Treks and Travels in Ladakh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Dick writes on Sydney Morning Herald about his visit to Ladakh, where he mentions about driving through the mountains highways that are not so much like a highway, and trekking through high altitude passes in Markha Valley.<\/p>\n

As it happens, the setting is so breathtaking \u2013 physically and metaphorically \u2013 it provides much to speak of and much to shut you up. There seems to be a Buddhist saying for everything and one advises that one should not speak unless it improves on the silence. In this part of the world, little passes that test.<\/p>\n

The geography dominates completely, with little flora or fauna to distract your senses or your thoughts, save for a lottery-like hope of spotting a snow leopard when there’s no snow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read Silently They Go<\/a> in Sydney Morning Herald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim Dick writes on Sydney Morning Herald about his visit to Ladakh, where he mentions about driving through the mountains highways that are not so much like a highway, and trekking through high altitude passes in Markha Valley. As it happens, the setting is so breathtaking \u2013 physically and metaphorically \u2013 it provides much to […]<\/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":[27],"tags":[521],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ladakh","tag-ladakh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-B6","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","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=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}