Last Updated on April 26, 2024 by Audrey Scott
How a two-day 258 miles bus ride through Kashmir served as my price of entry to Ladakh.
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Travel articles about Kashmir, India – Srinagar, Nagin Lake, Dal Lake and the route from Srinagar to Leh.
Flight 447: We Cannot Penetrate This Weather
Last Updated on July 26, 2020 by Audrey Scott
This is a story about how when you hear penguins at 20,000 feet, there’s a good chance you’re in deep sh*t.
“Ladies and gentlemen…the weather situation in Srinagar is very bad…flights are being diverted to Delhi…four flights just before us…we will try and see.”
I'd absorbed only fragments of the pilot’s announcement as my head was buried in a book. We’d come from Mumbai and rivers of monsoon to escape to Kashmir in northern India, apparently only to find more storms.
Then we began our descent.