Ladakh, the one last dance

Yogesh Sarkar

Administrator
This isn’t a travelogue, this isn’t even a photologue. This is goodbye letter from one lover to another and the last dance, which played out between them. Not many will understand the emotions behind this, but this has been a decade long love affair and for me, it couldn’t have had a more appropriate, emotional and beautiful ending. This is, my tribute to the land I loved and will forever love from the bottom of my heart, yet, today I move on…

Goodbye Love,

You have said your farewell earlier, when I was just thinking of ways of saying it to you and now I must say the same.

I fell in love with you the first time we met, since then I have come back to you again and again for what only you could provide and you have given me a lot. Today much of what I am, what I am known for and what I do is because of you and your unconditional love.

Yet today is the last time we meet as lovers, for tomorrow when I depart only your memories will remain and when we meet again, we will meet as friends.

I will come back for work and I will come back when I have to show someone one of my most memorable love affairs. But you know as well as I do, an era has ended now and I must move on.

You know the reasons for this better than I do, for you gave me more and more till I could take no more and I just sat there admiring the beauty I once loved. For you looked more beautiful yesterday and today than you had ever earlier.

You knew even before I did that it would be over now, I guess I didn't wanted to acknowledge it so soon. So we both put on our best cloths and danced one last time as lovers. We danced for hours and when I could dance no more, I sat down and watched you dance one last time for me. I smiled ever so softly with tears in my eyes, I whispered to you, thank you love and I will always remember you like this, for your beauty and compassion far exceeds anything I could understand and love. So I say goodbye now love, I will always hold your memories close to my heart and will visit you one day with my child by my side, hoping they too will fall for you like I did once and you will love them as much as you loved me throughout.

Forever in your debt,
The boy who fell in your love...

Zanskar Range from Air

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Morning colors of Leh

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View from a window I called home for 9 nights...

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View at Khardung La

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On the road to Sumur

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Warshi Village

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View around Warshi

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The last dance of Nubra...

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The one who watches over this beautiful land...

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Hunder

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On the road to Wari La...

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The place I called home for 9 nights at Otsal Guest House...

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Be a Good person but Don't try to Prove.
Awesome Yogesh. Sometimes they say that a picture talks more than thousand words but in your case hundred words talked story of a lifetime.
 

Ankur003

UltraWideLife.com
Yogesh Bhai, this is a very emotional letter. Its hard to get into your shoes to understand your affair with Ladakh and why do you think it has ended.
I wish you all the best in your future endeavors!!!
 

Yogesh Sarkar

Administrator
Anirban, this is the start and this is the end. There is no next part or more photographs. I might share a few more occasionally at different places. But as far as this is concerned, this is the end.
 
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