Edwin@Leh

I arrived in Leh on Sunday after a very bumpy 2-day jeep journey through the 2nd highest motorable road in the world (I got photos but won't have time to upload them until a few weeks from now).

Yesterday the Dalai Lama passed through Leh in the morning at around 9am. I was still in my hotel room at that time so I did not witness the procession of his convoy. But people told me that he was on his way to Nubra Valley to give a 3 days teaching to the public, and he'll do the same thing in Leh around the 16th of this month.

In Norther India, where it's more Buddhist than Hindu, Dalai Lama realy is just like the Pope in Italy. Wherever I go, people talked about where he is right now and where he's going to be soon, many shops and restaurants have his photo hanging on the wall, and wherever he goes, people line the streets to welcome him.

I picked up his autobiography "Freedom in exile" in Manali and I it to be a perfect time and place for me to read this book, because I'm so close to where the events happened in the book, and the places around me are fulled of his presence.

I haven't decided whether to attend his teachings in Leh or not, because as usual, "the plan is that there's no plan."