Chapter 3: Travelling Season Arrives
Edie had hoped that they might have longer in the city of Srinagar to explore the lakes and the rivers and the beautiful ancient houses, carved with the same skill as the many bridges that went to and fro over the Jelum River.
However, the season for travelling was opening up and if they wished to take a leisurely journey across the mountains to Leh and hope to catch the springtime flowers in the high passes then they needed to leave relatively quickly. Jones had been waiting for them for some time, since March, and it was now the end of May. She had had plenty of time to prepare for her own trip and like her, Bennett Carruthers was keen to make the most of the warming weather to get over the Karakorum pass and as far up the Silk Road to Yarkand as he
