Pangong Tso - Leh - Khardung La

Day 8
every time the ride conversation comes up the most asked question is! "How many days did you reach Leh?" , and i calculate every time, i don't even remember because it doesn't matter, what we have been through ,getting to Leh, is what matters:

The rented bikes somehow managed to reach leh. We split in Leh into 2 groups. we (me, Sandhu Sherry) stayed for a night at the army mess and the others took up a hotel.

and yeah just before reaching Leh the road from Karu to Leh was so amazing, that we went berserk, all of us. :) what do you expect 7 days of butt ache and then you get a road like that: whose gonna hold back.
We had dinner with Capt Priyansh who was planning to cycle up the next day yo Kla, wonder what happened of him! because the day after we found out of fresh snow there.

Day 9
We had kept this as a rest Day, so we had a decent breakfast, In a German Bakery Gesmo i think. Excellent food.

Shopped in the Leh Market, it was rainy that day and we were shopping. i hated that portion of the trip.

Then finally some sanity prevailed and we went to Shanti Stupa.









Thiksey and Also Shey Palace here are the Pics.



The 2 storey Padm Sambhava Statue @Thiksey


Day 10
EUPHORIA: i do understand now, whats the meaning of this word.
We had to ride to Khardung La today. Some of us had planned to do Nubra as well which we could not.

When we started i had no special feeling, for Apjoo this was it. He had missed Pangong just so he could ride to Kla, in fact he rode from Delhi just for this, and his excitement was evident: he was ripping ahead of all of us, high on Diamox: he wanted to get there quickly.

This without a doubt was the BEST day in the ride.."Paisa vasool day" and you will know after looking at the Pics.

I don't know about others but on reaching the top i felt so much of euphoria, i don't know why?
Highest Motor able road in the World: 18380 Ft : half way to Mt Everest wow!, I'm sure my emotions got the better of me a couple of times.

till now we rode over Stones Mud, dirt, boulders ,slush gravel etc etc, Today it was going to be Ice. yeeehaaa

It was so cold our fingers turned blue despite the protection, this stop was just to warm our hands, sherry at the back using the engine, Sandhu on the right tucked away for engine heat and me gripping the silencer.










Waiting at South Pullu Sliding on Ice

Akhils rented bike in the meanwhile was giving trouble, Amar Pandey and Akhil were way behind repairing a broken accel cable. We were stopped at South Pullu because the route was not clear due to snow. Thank god for the Bukhari at the army post we had a breather from the cold.

Kunal on the other hand after the puncture at Pangong decide to skip this ride altogether..he was sleeping at the hotel :)


So that was our euphoric moment at Kla.

We headed back to Leh later in the day after spending more than 2 hours on top and buying souvineers. Apjoo bought a whole crokery set.