Ladakh

The Mountains stood in Haze 

The Valleys stopped below

And went or waited as they liked

The River and the Sky

At leisure was the Sun 

His interests of Fire

A little from remark withdrawn 

The Twilight spoke the Spire,

So soft upon the Scene

The Act of evening fell

We felt how neighborly a Thing

Was the Invisible

- Emily Dickinson

Sculpture classes at Central Institute of Buddhist Study, Choglamsar, Leh

Leh Palace and the old town

Leh old town

'Bread gali', baking since silk route was an active passageway for traders across India and China

Sandakphu

You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain;

I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care.

As the peach-blossom flows down stream and is gone into the unknown,

I have a world apart that is not among men.   

- Li Bai

3636 meters above the sea level, 40 km air distance from Khangchenjunga and 150 km air distance from Mt. Everest, Sandakphu is the highest peak in West bengal. The name Sandakphu means the 'Height of the Poison Plant', a direct reference to the profusion of the poisonous aconite plants that grow near the peak. The peak is a vantage point from where one can see four of the world's five highest peaks - Everest, Kanchenjunga, Makalu and Lhotse - in a continuous snow-clad arc.

P.S. These are real colors of the sky, clouds, flowers (editing was not used to enhance ambience)