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Aug
01
Way back in 2002, when we were staying in a rented house in Gurgaon, our landlord had a visitor and that lady, who was just back from her Mt. Kailash Parikrama, wanted some help in transferring images from her digital camera to her laptop. Till that moment I had not even heard of Mt. Kailash […]
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Jul
03
Distance Covered: About 50 Kms Travel Time: 2 hours Waiting for Chinese Immigration: 5 – 6 hours … Immigration formalities: 30 mts. Crazy day of travel. Distance traveled was way too short, but we spent almost the entire day in transit. Here is the road-map, from Tato Pani to Nyalam, via Kodari Tato Pani is […]
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Jul
04
Distance Traveled: About 250 Kms Time Traveled: About 7 hours + an hour for lunch along the way. Left Nyalam by 9:30 AM and reached Saga by 5 PM. Here is the road map from Nyalam to Saga. The 250 km journey does go through some beautiful parts of the Tibetan plateau, but due to […]
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Jul
06
Distance Traveled: About 25 Kms Did not have too much of travel scheduled for this day as pooja on the banks of Manasa Sarovar were planned. We were extremely lucky that our guruji, Sri Krishnamurthy ji, and his team of pundits were traveling with us and they had come fully prepared to conduct Rudra Homa […]
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Jul
07
Mt. Kailash parikrama means one perambulation around the Mt. Kailash peak by walk. The total distance of this parikrama is about 52 kilometers and is typically covered over three days. Refer to the map below: Day 1 : Darchen to Drirapuk Gompa (pronounced Derapuk) – 22 Kms, 8 kms by bus / jeep and 12 […]
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Jul
08
Mt. Kailash playing hide and seek in the cover image above. Mount Kailash is a peak in the Kailas Range (Gangdise Mountains), which in turn are part of the greater Trans-Himalaya mountain ranges. It lies near the source of some of the longest rivers in Asia: the Indus River, the Sutlej River (a major tributary […]
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Jul
09
Distance Traveled: About 600 kms Travel Time: About 9 hours. Left Darchen at 10 AM and reached Saga by 7 PM This was the first day of our travel back to Kathmandu from Mt. Kailash. On our way to Mt. Kailash, we had taken 4 days to reach, but took only 3 on the way […]
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Jul
10
Distance Traveled: About 250 Kms Time Traveled: About 5 hours. Left Saga around 9:30 AM and reached Nyalam by 3 PM. On our way to Mt. Kailash, our buses did not stop at any photography points and given that even we were keen to get to Mt. Kailash as early as possible, none of us […]
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Jul
11
Distance Traveled: About 160 Kms Time Taken: Almost 10 hrs. More than it being the last day of our journey, we wanted to get out of the dirty hotel where we were put up the night before. We left Nyalam at 8 am and reached Kathmandu around 7 pm that evening, due to some issues […]
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