My breakfast... :-)

The audience who had collected while I was packing up

my hosts, the Wanchuk family

At the entrance of Hanle there is this board

View from the Hanle Palace of the Hanle River basin. I had a tough time getting upto the palace, the road is half built and then had to climb up..!!!! That day i realised that the oxygen is actually less at 15000 feet..!! :-) I was panting like anything...

I reached the Hanle Palace and had heard that there were old manuscripts and sculptures and was looking forward to seeing them... to my surprise there was only a snarly looking dog at the top and nobody else there. Everything was locked up. At the base of the climb for the palace, i met a lama on my way back who said that he stays there and he had gone for his bath...!! Inside view of the Hanle Palace

The desert merges with the river basin or vice versa

View from Hanle Palace

The dirt tracks that you see are the roads coming to Hanle from Rhongo

Another view of the Hanle river basin

On the way down from the Hanle Palace.

On the way back to Rhongo from Hanle

At Tsewang's place, this baby was born while we were having tea inside his rebo

Tsewang with another new born

On way to Nyoma, windstorms in the distance

I got caught in one of the windstorms in Hanle

Just before Nyoma on the way back

Dust storms

Dust storms raging ahead

Rains falling

alongwith the dust storm

The town of Muth on the way to Nyoma