{"id":1133,"date":"2010-08-28T12:32:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T11:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2010-08-28T11:11:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T10:11:07","slug":"a-short-trip-into-pin-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/a-short-trip-into-pin-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"A short trip into Pin Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Italian family from Belgium wanted to give me a ride back to Kaza this morning. But the jeep never came &#8211; the road was blocked &#8211; surprise. So i hiked down to the street with Massimo. No car no nothing so we went into the local soup shop. 3 tables and one old woman &#8211; and: Laele from France. She started more than 30 hours ago from Dankar and did not really get far. Some food and 2 beers later the road towards Kaza was open for jeeps again. We did find a lift after some time and made it back to Kaza. Erik came later in the afternoon and we went in &#8220;our&#8221; guesthouse again. Good times &#8211; 2 nights later everybody left me so i took of with Alex for a short trip into Pin Valley.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2010\/india\/109.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"241\" alt=\"India 2010\"><\/p>\n<p>You can imagine what forces created this mountains. Folded like towels &#8211; a very nice view.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2010\/india\/110.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" alt=\"India 2010\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2010\/india\/111.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" alt=\"India 2010\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2010\/india\/112.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" alt=\"India 2010\"><\/p>\n<p>You would not believe it &#8211; i went up the hill behind the house and it looks like a 20 minutes walk. Took me almost 2 hours as it is steep and the air is thin. The reward? Some horses!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2010\/india\/113.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"349\" alt=\"India 2010\"><\/p>\n<p>The locals leave the horses roam the whole summer on the plains. A few go to the snow leopard each year. They are kind of shy as they do not see to many strangers the whole summer. Later i did see a whole bunch of them. <br \/>It is one thing to get up a hill or mountain. The other is to go down. As my horse viewing brought me far away from the site where i came up i decided to go clockwise round the mountain and slow down. First time i could really use the heavy boots i bought for that trip. Guess i had some luck on some parts not to fall down a few hundred meters. But that is the fun part of it (at last when you save down from the mountain again).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2010\/india\/114.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" alt=\"India 2010\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2010\/india\/115.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" alt=\"India 2010\"><\/p>\n<p>We stayed in the house of an Lama &#8211; he did also cook for us in the evening. And he had a secret sorce for the local moonshine!<br \/>This was the view out of my Window to the right.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2010\/india\/117.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" alt=\"India 2010\"><\/p>\n<p>And the left. There was one more window and the best &#8211; it did not rain in Pin Valley so the mud house was complete dry and did smell really good.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2010\/india\/116.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" alt=\"India 2010\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2010\/india\/118.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" alt=\"India 2010\"><\/p>\n<p>The shopkeeper of the only local shop &#8211; strange strange but most shops have no window. Guess that makes it harder to break in?? So if you go shopping better bring a torch with you. Got some candy for our hosts children and beer for my mineral intake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Italian family from Belgium wanted to give me a ride back to Kaza this morning. But the jeep never came &#8211; the road was blocked &#8211; surprise. So i hiked down to the street with Massimo. No car no nothing so we went into the local soup shop. 3 tables and one old woman&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kb_optimizer_status":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,173],"tags":[425,432],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-pin-valley","tag-india","tag-pin-valley"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Marc Hastenteufel","author_link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/author\/marc\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}