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      <description>Acclimatising properly, avoiding altitude sickness, the Kinnaur loop versus the Manali entry, monasteries you must not miss, and exactly how cold it gets at Kaza in October.</description>
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      <description>Renting a car in India sounds cheaper on paper. By day three, almost every foreign self-driver we have rescued wishes they had hired a driver instead. Here is why — and when self-drive is actually fine.</description>
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      <description>Yamunotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath, Badrinath — the four sacred shrines of the Indian Himalayas, with helicopter options, palki services, registration paperwork, and what foreign visitors should expect.</description>
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