A chance discussion with a content creator triggered an unexpected urge to go to the mighty Himalayas. He was planning to visit Spiti for a snow leopard expedition at an unbelievable budget. Snow leopard was not even on the bucket list then, but I kept playing with this thought..
With this seed planted in my mind, I reached out to my friend, Siddharth, with whom I had discussed about a potential visit before. One thing led to another and we freezed on going to Spiti in the first week of March with birding partner, Anoop, joining as well.
We did our booking with Tapka Tenzin(spiti_the_journey) as we found his itinerary good and pricing super reasonable.