{"id":2920,"date":"2014-08-31T12:40:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T11:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/?p=2920"},"modified":"2014-08-31T12:40:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T11:40:39","slug":"srinagar-kargil-padum-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/srinagar-kargil-padum-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"From Srinagar to Kargil to Padum Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After i did catch up with my team in Srinagar we walked up to a hill and down again &#8211; that was all i did see from over there. I took a few pictures with the iPhone on the way to an internet caf&eacute;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/120a.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"472\" alt=\"Srinagar\">  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/120b.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" alt=\"Srinagar\">  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/120c.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" alt=\"Srinagar\"><br \/>Be careful when you prebook &#8211; you might end up on a house boat like that. I rather have a room that does not move if you ask me! <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/120d.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" alt=\"Srinagar\"> <br \/>Breakfast at our homestay in the morning <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/120.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"From Kargil to Padum\"> <br \/>Landslide blocked the road for over 4 hours. It was hot, dusty and very very boooring!  <\/p>\n<p>\/120e.jpg&#8221; width=&#8221;650&#8243; height=&#8221;488&#8243; alt=&#8221;Srinagar&#8221;>  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/120f.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" alt=\"Srinagar\">  <br \/>At last with a view when there was not too much dust for a few minutes <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/120g.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" alt=\"Srinagar\"> <br \/>So you sit in the car &#8211; a girl from Ireland did watch Rambo somewhere in Vietnam till her batteries went dry. Than more waiting. When the dust comes you have to close the window so you can breathe. But than the sun is heating up the car. Catch 22! <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/120h.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"465\" alt=\"Srinagar\"> <br \/>Our cruiser <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/121.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"From Kargil to Padum\">  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/122.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"From Kargil to Padum\">  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/120i.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" alt=\"Srinagar\"> <br \/>Work Work! <\/p>\n<p>Finally we did reach Kargil &#8211; at the same time as the bus which took the &#8220;longer&#8221; road. Great! Called Mikey to meet us at the corner and went with him to our Guesthouse. Big room with a few blankets on the floor. Since we only had a few hours to sleep &#8211; it did the trick.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/120k.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" alt=\"Srinagar\"> <br \/>Waiting for the next jeep in the early hours. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/123.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"From Kargil to Padum\"> <br \/>Perfect time for the sun to come up <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/124.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"From Kargil to Padum\"> <br \/>Helena from Spain<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/125.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"From Kargil to Padum\">  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/126.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"484\" alt=\"From Kargil to Padum\"> <br \/>Miky from Poland<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/127.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"From Kargil to Padum\">  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/128.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"From Kargil to Padum\">  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/129.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"From Kargil to Padum\"> <br \/>The good old Tata jeep &#8211; hard to kill! <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/130.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"From Kargil to Padum\">  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/131.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"From Kargil to Padum\">  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/132.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"From Kargil to Padum\">  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/133.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"From Kargil to Padum\">  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/134.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"From Kargil to Padum\">  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/135.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"457\" alt=\"From Kargil to Padum\"> <br \/>Since our driver was so tired and crashed the jeep &#8211; lucky for us towards the hill-side of the road &#8211; Jutin took over the wheel. One of his dreams &#8211; drive a jeep in the Himalayas. There you go boy! <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/136.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"418\" alt=\"From Kargil to Padum\"> <br \/>At the pass <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/120l.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"537\" alt=\"Srinagar\"> <br \/> Little Yak baby &#8211; took me about 10 minutes to gain trust and stop it for a cuddle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After i did catch up with my team in Srinagar we walked up to a hill and down again &#8211; that was all i did see from over there. I took a few pictures with the iPhone on the way to an internet caf&eacute;. Be careful when you prebook &#8211; you might end up on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2922,"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":[160,288,289,287],"tags":[425,509,510,508],"class_list":["post-2920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-kargil","category-padum","category-srinagar","tag-india","tag-kargil","tag-padum","tag-srinagar"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/120l.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Marc Hastenteufel","author_link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/author\/marc\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/120l.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920","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=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}