06/09/2017 Pang -Tso Kar Lake – Debring

06/09/2017 Pang -Tso Kar Lake – Debring

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Looking back over Pang

It's amazing how a long night sleep recovers the body. I felt raring to go and was also very pleased with the prospect of a long down hill on a good road. The ride over the Morei Plans was fantastic. The scenery amazing, a nice gentle down hill so you never had to brake, hardly any traffic so we could cycle two abreast, glorious weather and a tail wind. What more can you want. We had to stop once or twice to let a heard of sheep and goats cross the road. To the east of the Highway ( what a misnomer!) lies the region of Rupshu or Tibetan Plateau, home to the Chang-pa nomads who raise flocks of yak, sheep and goats. The temperature drops to below -40C in winter and the goats raised here are famed for their warm underbelly fur, know as pashm which is woven into pashmina shawls in Srinagar.

We decided to take the 14km round trip detour over a sandy jeep track to have a look at Tso Kar Lake which is quite a well known tourist attraction. It did look beautiful but in my opinion lakes aren't the best feature in the Indian Himalaya. It's the mountains. It was only after we arrived in Debring that we realised that there is a new fully tarmacked road to Tso Kar Lake. We needn't have slogged through the loose sand after all. All in all it had been a very good and easy day though.

On the way to Tso Kar Lakes

Tent camp at Tso Kar Lake We just stopped for lunch 

Now where is that track? 

It's quite nice not to have to pack up the tent in the morning

I should have bought a shawl made from the belly fur 

We arrived quite early at our night stop in Debring. Time for
a coke and even a bit of crocheting. No electricity, never mind
 wifi means you can just sit and relax.