Rothang La

To get to the seemingly forbidden lands of Leh and Ladakh, one has to pass through the Rothang La (pass in local speak). The Pass to me, had mysterious feel to it...at 4000m, only the ardent could get through its formidable terrain and to the otherside lay the great Himalayas.

So imagine my eyes when the romanticism of Rothang manifested into the below...
...more a summer winter wonderland! Anyways, the following pics are of the journey. The picture below is of the snake of cars winding their way through the glacier. The authorities close the roads for a couple hours at a stretch to remove the snow and ice. So when the mad rush of cars and buses finnally settled into some order, you get the below...