YOLO JOURNEY: PANGONG TSO LAKE

PANGONG TSO LAKE

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This is Pangong Tso Lake. This lake located in China and India. One of the soda lake in the world that also will frozen during winter that became a saline water. This lake maximum width is 5 km and maximum length is 134 km that make extends from India to Tibet. 60% of the legth of the lake lies in Tibet and the others lies in Ladakh.

This lake contain of the brackish water that has very low micro-vegetation that will not have any fish or other aquatic life except for some small crustaceans. On the other hand, there is still some animal like duck gulls over on the lake. There is also some perennial-herbs that grow in the marshes around the lake that can be used as scrub.

This lake is also as the one of the places for the migratory birds. During summer, the Bar-headed goose and Brahmini ducks are commonly seen here. This lake also support the wildlife species like the kiang and the marmot. Before the natural damming, Pangong Tso is the outlet to Shyok River, a tributary on Indus River.

Pangong Tso can be reached in a five-hour drive from Leh, most of the road is rough and dramatic mountain road. The road crosses the villages of Shey and Gya and the Changla Pass. Road down from Changla Pass leads through Tangste and other smaller villages, crossing river called Pagal Naala or "The Crazy Stream". The amazing lakeside is open during the tourist season, from May to September. An Inner Line Permit is required to visit the lake as it lies on the Sino-Indian Line of Actual Control. While Indian nationals can uses individual permits, others must have group permits (with a minimum of three persons) accompanied by an accredited guide. The tourist office in Leh issues the permits for a small fee. For security reasons, India does not permit boating.

India was monopoly by the Indian with the population 1,210,193,422 people in 2011. There is no official language of this country because they use almost 20 different language but they are educated enough if you want to speaking in English. The Indian Rupee (INR) is the currency of India. The currency between Ringgit Malaysia and Indian Rupee is 1 Malayasian Ringgit = 19.5372 Indian rupees.

This is some tips for India first timers:

· Choose your route wisely

Think about our interest or what we like to doing and try to plan a systematic planning at the beginning of the vacation.If you want to hired a travel agencies, choose it wisely because there is many untrusted business in India that like to influence the tourist.

Avoid the crowd

One billion of the citizen of India, so you have to avoid the crowd to prevent you from lost or split with your partner or group.

· Stay health

Avoid tap water and any food that may have been washed in it, all the times because we do not know the level of their cleanliness.Toilet in India is obviously bad. So, makesure you always bring your own hygiens soap.

· Stay cool

Scams is the major factor why tourist didn’t choose India as theirs favourite places of vacation. If you are involved in scams, always stay cool and always have a backup plan in any situation that might be happen to you.