It’s human nature to compare things, places and people with what we have seen/experienced in past.

In the same spirit I was comparing Spiti with Ladakh on my recent trip to Spiti, maybe due to the fact that I had heard from so many people that Spiti is better than Ladakh and what not.

This very fact almost ended up ruining my Spiti trip, since every place I went to in Spiti; I ended up comparing it with places I had visited in Ladakh and more often than not getting disappointed with it for not living up to the expectation or should I say the benchmark.

Even though I was visiting places that I had never seen before, I was getting disappointed by them even before having a chance to experience them properly, add to this the photos that I was clicking weren’t as impressive as the photos I had clicked in Ladakh and that factor add to the woes as well.

It took me three days to finally come out of the shell and accept Spiti for what it was, Spiti and not a replacement to Ladakh!

I have learned one important thing from this trip, which is to stop listening to people who try to compare one place with another, because every place like every individual is different and comparing two isn’t just unjust for those places, but also for you as you attempt to become a critique and believe me being a critique is not the best way to enjoy a place or for that matter any thing!

So go out there and enjoy the place for what it is, not what you perceive or expect it to be.

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