Lcated at a height of 14,200 feet from sea level, Kibber is alternately touted as the highest village in the world & in Asia. Whatever may be the truth, this little place was interesting. For one thing, there must be less than 100 households here (a rarity in India, surely?). For another, there were fields upon lush green, marking a strange contrast to the aridity of the mountains in the background.
Here is an interesting group of objects seen outside the otherwise unremarkable gompa at Kibber:
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Having trekked in these lands, I can understand the emotion expressed.
It was about a two decades ago, when my journey of discovering this wilderness crystallized.
The camera only caught the colours of a spring breaking in this high altitude area, the air, the water, the fragrances and the food eaten had all to be lived to really appreciate the beauty of Spiti.
With only a Gorkha guide on Kunzam Top that June morning in 1990, I could not trek it to Chandertal and had to join two other Lahauli young men for a long trek through the valley to Gramphu.
My dream was only broken after we crossed over Rohtang and caught up with tourists in Marhi, dancing away on a glacier to trash music blaring through a portable cassette player.
The peace, the struggle the calmness of the mountains and the agility of Chandra river at its birth place has been tucked away safe from being eroded by time.
Ravinder-ji, thank you for posting a comment on this page. I went to Spiti in August 2007 & came back with my sweet dreams smashed to smithereens. Civilisation has marched right up to the edge of Chandrataal: fuel fumes foul the air, plastic chokes the little stream flowing out of the magical lake & the sound of vehicles rents the air.
It's a tragedy unfolding rapidly.
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