Spiti Travelogue: Day 14

Back Where We Began: Home sweet home at last!

All this time, the wheels of our train were constantly bringing us closer and closer to our home. At last, we reached Pune! Wherever you go in the world, there is no place like home! Moreover, after such an extraordinary trip, this was as true as ever.

We waited to develop our film rolls, and share them and our experiences with friends and family. I decided to write this travelogue because I felt too many things were missing from verbal narratives. It has been a different pleasure altogether to write about our trip.

We all met again on the weekend when all of us were in Pune - recounting our memories, reliving our experiences, sharing our thoughts and planning for future trips back to the Himalayas...

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April 20, 2007 – 6:41 PM | By Mahendra | Posted in India, Travel, himalayas, nature | Comments (9)

9 Comments

  • Nitin Deshmukh wrote:
    May 4, 2007 at 4:54 PM

    Hi Mahen­dra,

    I am happy to know that you enjoyed my blog… as I did yours, about Spiti. I also relived my trip to Spiti in 2004 via your blog. It was a nice 3 week long trip for me, in which i trekked a lot. Going alone can be lot of fun, as i found.. and i guess you too had fun there with friends. You write a hun­dred times bet­ter than me, and you write a lot, whereas i am too lazy… I too was hop­ing to write about my spiti, bhutan, kedar taal, and other trips… god knows when that day will come…

    I have been to Chan­drataal now 4 times, and now i am totally fed up with it. its been totally com­mer­cial­ized, with the road reach­ing the lake totally now, as i found out in july 2006. Bet­ter not go there now. Spend time going to Mane lake in Spiti, or Tso Moriri, Tso Kar, or Pan­gong in Ladakh.

    This was sup­posed to be a mail or a com­ment i don’t know… couldn’t find ur mail address… Keep blog­ging.. you are good at it… will read ur other stuff too one day.. busy right now…

    Cheers,
    Nitin.

  • mahendrap wrote:
    May 4, 2007 at 6:47 PM

    Hi Nitin,

    Thanks for your com­ments and compliments!

    And my good­ness, I didn’t know about all these changes near Chandrataal…couldn’t even imag­ine! What a waste…thanks so much for the updates, really appre­ci­ate it.

    Look for­ward to read­ing more of your blog too…

    Cheers, Mahen­dra

  • Priyank wrote:
    Jun 27, 2007 at 10:06 PM

    Just fin­ished read­ing the entire trav­elog. It was a nos­tal­gic feel­ing. Very nicely done, con­grats:) Some of my detailed travel sto­ries are here: http://priyank.com/weblog/travelogs/

  • mahendrap wrote:
    Jun 29, 2007 at 10:19 AM

    Thanks, Priyank! I will go through your trav­el­ogs soon…!

  • Dr. K.C.Prashar wrote:
    Aug 11, 2007 at 1:46 PM

    Con­grats, Mahen­dra. A very well edited write up, this Spti travelogue.

    The pho­tographs are good, par­tic­u­larly those snapped indoors in that they cap­ture all minute details of gom­pas. Kye monas­tory pho­to­graph is mys­ti­cal. If only the entire back­ground moun­tain had gone shaded, Ah!

  • mahendrap wrote:
    Aug 12, 2007 at 1:59 PM

    Dr. Prashar: thank you very much for the com­pli­ments! I’m glad you enjoyed read­ing my trav­el­ogue. You are right in a way, if the Ki monastery back­ground would’ve been com­pletely shaded it would’ve made a bet­ter cap­ture, but I don’t know if the light would have been suf­fi­cient in that case.

    Yes, indeed it is mys­ti­cal. It was a hyp­notic sight. I wish I could’ve cap­tured more pho­tos! That was dif­fi­cult sine we were trav­el­ing in the jeep, when I clicked this one snap.

    And as I men­tioned, some of the monastery inte­ri­ors were not vis­i­ble to us when we were there. We only saw them when we devel­oped the pho­tographs after­wards! :-) Thanks again for your comments.

  • bendtherulz wrote:
    Oct 11, 2007 at 3:20 PM

    Greet­ings Mahen­dra,
    Whow you write so well and words were in such flow­ing man­ner­ism. I enjoyed read­ing your Spiti trek details. When it came to Chan­dratal part — I really got excited as I so much want to visit that part…however the com­ment made by Nitin is so disheartening…yikes…!
    I haven’t been able to find a trav­el­ling part­ner till now for Spiti…so I think next year it will be just me.. !! I think I will be tak­ing all the notes from your narration…hope its ok.
    I can spend hours and hours read­ing about travel bits…so will check out your Himalaya post as well, some­time later though — today com­plet­ing all 14 parts in one go…was good!
    Keep writ­ing…
    Peace always ~

  • mahendrap wrote:
    Oct 11, 2007 at 4:44 PM

    Greet­ings, bendtherulz!

    Thank you for your kind words. I’m glad you enjoyed read­ing it.

    Yes, Nitin’s update is quite dis­heart­en­ing. As he sug­gested, you should prob­a­bly check out other options.

    It’s quite shock­ing you’re not find­ing a part­ner! Just post on a few Indian group travel sites and you’ll find takers.

    Absolutely no prob­lem with tak­ing notes or print­outs from my trav­el­ogue for per­sonal use. I would be glad if its of any help to other travelers!

    Keep vis­it­ing, I’ll keep writ­ing :-) Peace.

    • Santosh wrote:
      Feb 19, 2010 at 3:15 PM

      Greet­ings Mahendra,

      Tremen­dously writ­ten, explained every aspects so mag­i­cally that I thought I am trav­el­ling with you all the time. Hats off to you for it. In the mean­while could you please let me know the best time to visit Spiti and if pos­si­ble some mon­e­tary esti­mate as well.
      Keep writ­ing, u r best at it.
      Wish you luck.