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Snow Leopard trip report 2008/ 09 in Ladakh.
Our trip was to Hemis national park in Ladakh with the main objective of seeing a Snow Leopard. Arrangements were made through Exotic travel based in Leh and run by Phunhok Tsering ( PT ). We were provided with very nice tents for camping in the Rumbak valley and a team of camp assistants, cooks and the fantastic guide, Smanla Tselling. They set up a kitchen tent, dining tent and even a loo tent and with 3 donkeys to carry the supplies we were a proper expedition. Food was excellent.
Smanla was superb at telling signs of Snow leopard activity and put in a great effort in scanning the mountainsides which eventually resulted in us having superb views of 2 different snow leopards, one for over 3 hours.
The whole trip was superb and all arrangemets went to plan and PT joined us for a meal at the end of a memorable adventure. "
phil. philtelfer@btinternet.com.
Mark Andrew UK rockfowl1@ntlworld.com