Ibex Trail - Ladakh (Day 14)

Shoot.

Some local authorities intercepted our drone around 11 am after we'd spent most of the day flying it around Hanle. In the morning we did a beautiful session at the monastery, speaking to the monks. I did a little bit of Headspace inside the Gompa while two monks chanted their morning prayers; it was the most serene feeling ever. 

We asked one of the monks, Jigmet, why he likes living there. He said he's 24, and has been there since he was 16 (he's the youngest of six siblings). The head monk said he has no stress - doesn't need the money, and besides that, he's pretty much got everything else: clean air, a place to sleep and decent food.

Can't debate that.

The local authorities who caught our drone took the local LP and director away for an interrogation. And after a tense hour the both of them returned and said they had let us go, but we were forbidden from using the drone footage we shot. Daniel got sent off to Nyoma for the evening as foreigners are not allowed overnight in Hanle. 

After lunch we went to Punguk, a Tibetan refugee village outside Hanle where we met school children and the village Goba whose main problem is that the areas where they grow their crops aren't fenced and cannot be guarded from crop predators around the area. 

Shot some beautiful content, and returned to our homestay around 8 pm as the LP and AP came back sometime later finishing off bytes with the other riders.