[rahulya007]

Originally Posted by jacs

akp - So soothing for a mid week morning. I enjoyed all 11 days in one shot. Lovely snaps there, wander thirst! Your Tokina has served well

As you didn't engage 4H anywhere, looks like my Xylo can do it with little extra care? Well, let my kids grow little more older to handle such a long drive. Its too far a drive for Southies.

Jacs,

On my bike trip to Leh last year, I have seen maruti 800 doing the pangong trip with 4 people on board. Xylo on the other hand is much much powerful and with huge ground clearance. If you are otherwise careful about your car and maintain her regularly, then you need not worry about her. You'll see many scorpios, xylos, innovas, taveras along the route in leh.

What you need to worry are the kids and elders who might suffer from AMS symptoms. kids especially as they'll not understand if they are affected.

Jammu-Leh route is still much better for people who you'll fear might get AMS.
I am thinking of a xylo too for the next yr trip.

Regards,
Rahul

[akp]

Originally Posted by jacs

As you didn't engage 4H anywhere, looks like my Xylo can do it with little extra care? Well, let my kids grow little more older to handle such a long drive. Its too far a drive for Southies.

Originally Posted by rahulya007

Jacs,
On my bike trip to Leh last year, I have seen maruti 800 doing the pangong trip with 4 people on board. Xylo on the other hand is much much powerful and with huge ground clearance. If you are otherwise careful about your car and maintain her regularly, then you need not worry about her. You'll see many scorpios, xylos, innovas, taveras along the route in leh.

@jacs: As rahul has already pointed out, xylo is more than capable enough. In fact, on the evidence of what I saw on the roads there, xylos probably constitute the largest chunk of taxis in ladakh. The bottomline is, one has to know the limitations of the car + driver combination and drive accordingly. Unless you do that, even a 4x4 is not going to help you when you are pitted against nature.

Originally Posted by rkbharat

wonderful pics.

Where did you stayed in Karzok?

Thanks.

As soon as we entered Korzok, we saw a board: `Nomadic Life Camp'. SS-Traveller had stayed there during his trip and I also read good reviews, so we went straight ahead and booked a room. What I didn't notice was a thin arrow on that board that pointed to the left! So the place we stayed in was actually Tso Moriri Camps and Resorts.

Originally Posted by desertfox

Great pics. Which Camera and Lens you were useing. For the pictures by the lake on what ISO was the camera set ?

Canon 500D and 600D with Tamron 17-50 f/2.8, Tokina 11-16 f/2.8 and canon 100 f/2.8 macro USM. Most of the shots are at 100 ISO, but a few towards late evening might have been 200 or 400. Have to check. (The resized files in my laptop that I uploaded to tbhp have all the exif information, but when I download it from the tbhp site, it does not have that exif information any more - otherwise I could have just asked you to check the exif info from the individual files).

[yogibear007]

Originally Posted by akp

Canon 500D and 600D with Tamron 17-50 f/2.8, Tokina 11-16 f/2.8 and canon 100 f/2.8 macro USM. Most of the shots are at 100 ISO, but a few towards late evening might have been 200 or 400. Have to check. (The resized files in my laptop that I uploaded to tbhp have all the exif information, but when I download it from the tbhp site, it does not have that exif information any more - otherwise I could have just asked you to check the exif info from the individual files).

Thanks for sharing the beautiful photos akp. Really enjoyable. The Tamron and the Tokina have done wonderful job. I believe some of the sharper ones are from the 100/2.8 right but really enjoyed the wide angle ones.

[akp]

Originally Posted by desertfox

Great pics. Which Camera and Lens you were useing. For the pictures by the lake on what ISO was the camera set ?

Originally Posted by akp

Canon 500D and 600D with Tamron 17-50 f/2.8, Tokina 11-16 f/2.8 and canon 100 f/2.8 macro USM. Most of the shots are at 100 ISO, but a few towards late evening might have been 200 or 400. Have to check. (The resized files in my laptop that I uploaded to tbhp have all the exif information, but when I download it from the tbhp site, it does not have that exif information any more - otherwise I could have just asked you to check the exif info from the individual files).

Checked - all the Pangong shots are at ISO 100.

Originally Posted by yogibear007

Thanks for sharing the beautiful photos akp. Really enjoyable. The Tamron and the Tokina have done wonderful job. I believe some of the sharper ones are from the 100/2.8 right but really enjoyed the wide angle ones.

Some of the `close up's (e.g first three pictures in post #16) are with 100/2.8 macro, rest are all with Tamron and Tokina.

[Top-Gear]

AKP - Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Awesome pics. The beauty of the place and the longing in my heart to go there, moistened the eyes! I was speechless. This is one more jewel in the crown of T-BHP travelogues!

Originally Posted by jkrishnakj

No tiring away from reading all those travelogues on Leh, and each time i read one, i tell myself, next year. One day, yes, One day !.

Add me to your club!

[akp]

This was our drive on Day 10:



We had a car video camera mounted on the windscreen. Here are some videos from that camera on that day.

Morey Plains:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSPWc-A1l-I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMoFUYtnUzI

Around Baralacha La:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABEcRa5LWu8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyi6o1DspBQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZtGC_HCIls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q-hyM3UpUE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTl7r7iePeE