Leh Adventure : 8/15

Day 8th : 13th June Saturday

By the way, we were completely unaware about the dates and days. We just knew that it was Day 8th of our journey.

We were also completely isolated from Social Media, no news, no facebook, no whatsapp just as people say 'living in the moment'.

Today's plan was to go to Pangong tso lake.

Pangong tso lake is shared by China and India, where almost 3/4th of the part in China and the remaining part is in India.

Since we hired Manali bikes (Himachal Pradesh registration), we were not sure whether the officials in Leh will allow other state vehicles.

In the beginning, to check whether they will allow/not allow the vehicles, Santhosh and I went along. We found that the checking was not done and directed others to start from Leh.

Santhosh and I reached Pangong-Tso lake around 7pm. The road was terrible, it was a plain road so that we can ride at 80-100km/hr speed suddenly they is a steep which is intentionally created to slow down. 

During our ride, it was not dark hence we were able to make out about this risky roads and reach safely. There was also sand in the road due to sand storm for which we had to go really slow to avoid bike skid, other obstacle. 

We saw donkey with bi-color, the donkey was with Brown and white like a horse. Few passerby said that these donkey's can be withnessed here only.

After reaching early, we made arrangements for Tent and place to stay. We did not face any difficulties regarding the stay. There were always shops to assists us. We waited patiently for other's to join us.

And they all made it. I am sure that for others it will be much challenging than us as they had to ride in dark.

One crazy incident, Vyas and Rajesh S were on single bike. Vyas was riding and Rajesh had to get down during one slope upwards as it was snow and mud road made it difficult to climb. However after the climb, Vyas some how forgot about the pillion and went alone further about 20mins. Rajesh S was caught in the fix, his rider boycotted him. Imagine the situation, you are middle of the avalanche prone roads and all alone. Rajesh somehow managed by

asking a lorry vehicle driver for a ride and finally found Vyas after some km where he was asking others whether they have seen some guy walking alone. It was so funny, thankfully everything ended up safe. We had a good laugh altogether.

We planned to get-up early and view the beauty of the Pangong-tso lake. Couple of movies were shooted in this place including mega hit 3-Idiots.

Ride with Nature!

Beauty!

Next : Leh 9