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Bara Bhangal — no road. The mountain has not agreed to one.

Bara Bhangal — no road. The mountain has not agreed to one.✦Naggar is 20 kilometres from Manali. Every visitor drives straight past it.✦Demul's 53 families take turns hosting you. No app. No platform.✦Drass is the second-coldest inhabited town on earth. Almost nobody visits.✦Kyagar Tso appears on some maps and not others.✦Hunderman went to sleep in India and woke up in Pakistan.✦Sonmarg means Meadow of Gold. Most visitors leave before it earns the name.✦Puga Valley has flamingos at 4,400 metres. Nobody told them they don't belong.✦Lhalung was built by the same monk as Tabo. Almost nobody visits it.✦Rakcham's guesthouse owner has kept the chai ready for twenty years.✦Merak sits on Pangong Tso, fifteen kilometres from the crowds.✦Hamta Valley is a pass to most guides. It's a place to be in.✦Bara Bhangal — no road. The mountain has not agreed to one.✦Naggar is 20 kilometres from Manali. Every visitor drives straight past it.✦Demul's 53 families take turns hosting you. No app. No platform.✦Drass is the second-coldest inhabited town on earth. Almost nobody visits.✦Kyagar Tso appears on some maps and not others.✦Hunderman went to sleep in India and woke up in Pakistan.✦Sonmarg means Meadow of Gold. Most visitors leave before it earns the name.✦Puga Valley has flamingos at 4,400 metres. Nobody told them they don't belong.✦Lhalung was built by the same monk as Tabo. Almost nobody visits it.✦Rakcham's guesthouse owner has kept the chai ready for twenty years.✦Merak sits on Pangong Tso, fifteen kilometres from the crowds.✦Hamta Valley is a pass to most guides. It's a place to be in.✦

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