Leh Adventure : 10/15

Today, we were about to cross the said 'Highest Motorable Road in the World, Khardungla pass' during our ride. Khardungla pass is about 18,380 feet high.

We needed to take the Jammu and Kashmir registered vehicle as the checking was mandatory. 

We had kept our 8 bikes in Lodge itself. Few our friends were not well hence decided to go with Tempo/Innova instead of bike as we had to rent any one for our commute.

I personally wanted to go in Bike as riding in Snow will be fun :). 

We got 3 JK registered bikes and 1 Innova for our commute. We also had bolero with us.

So, we set to explore Nubra Valley and Hunder village.

The Innova driver was an expert. There were so many blind curves, that is - only if you go in your lane you are safe. The lane rule must be followed here to avoid any accidents. He drove around 70-80km/hr.

We, Bikers were on our own. We left bit early and we were able to move during avalance or traffic break unlike Innova and Bolera which had to be in queue.

Avalanche is the term used here to indicate the snow falling on to the road and blocking the transport. We had experienced and as usual we had to wait to  get it cleared. The Army men were on the job and they helped to get cleared early.

We reached Khardungla and had a photo shoot. Here, there was heavy snow fall and we had to go inside army hotel to have Maggi and Tea.The ride in the snow was challenging as the Tyre were skidding, we had to push the bikes in couple of places.

We resumed our ride to Hunder. Nubra valley with rare precipitation and scant vegetation except along river beds was a pleasant ride.Nubra valley was beautiful as there were greenery all around the places, Yak and other animals with thick fur were also visible.

Innova driver overtook us on the Nubra valley, he was kick-ass driver.

We also visited a place were Hot-springs has been occurring. Hot Springs - Hot water from the mountains. The weather was cold and here we are getting hot water, strange things :) Nature power.

We had to travel back almost 25km to get to Hunder which was our destination from the hot-spring location. Hunder village is famous for double-hump camel. Double hump camel can be spotted only in this place in India.

We had to ride in Dust storm,a new experience - a new badge :). We took a guest house at Hunder  for our stay after reaching at 10pm.

After a nap, we had our dinner at 12am since the guest house people had prepared and we did not wanted to waste the food.

Next : Leh 11