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<description>Travel adventures in journals and photos from Pottumarthi</description>
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                    <title>Day 18  Chandigarh to Bangalore</title>
                    <description>We all decided to take it easy after the liquid celebrations the previous day and stayed back in the hotel and relaxed.Packed all the bags and had breakfast in the hotel itself. Brian and Payal reached the hotel by about 1230pm. Then we all went together to Pal Dhaba and had lunch and returned to the hotel and checked out and spent about an hour in Brians room.At 330 pm our cab arrived and we</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bangalore/blog-631766.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 17  Mandi to Chandigarh</title>
                    <description>Got up as usual at 445am for which we all have got accustomed to by now we got ready by 530 am and then packed all our luggages on our bikes and left at 630am.Rode through curvaceous and mountainous roads between Mandi and Chandigarh which was painstakingly slow because of the curvaceous roads with lot of gradients added to which heavy truck traffic and reached Chandigarh by about 130pm. Ofco</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Punjab/Chandigarh/blog-631765.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 16  Pang to Keylong</title>
                    <description>We started from keylong this morning  7 am and reached mandi by 7pm.We first went into Tandi and went to the petrol pump there but found that it was closed then decided to skip and take chances to reach Manali. Had breakfast at Tandi and then started. Tried to get petrol in lot of places on the way but in vain. Some how Ravish managed to get .75 lts of petrol in some road side shack.We reached Ro</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Himachal-Pradesh/Keylong/blog-631764.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 15  Pang to Keylong</title>
                    <description>Got up at about 5 am and with great difficulty brushed and washed with boiling water which was fine when we used but our hands started hurting as the left over water in our hands started freezing later.After breakfast of the usual Aloo parotas left Pang at 730am.Passed Baralacha la and Ghata loops and reached Jispa by about 3pm.The Scenic beauty of Jispa was so good we thought of staying back ton</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Himachal-Pradesh/Keylong/blog-631761.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 14  Leh to Pang</title>
                    <description>Got up at 430am packed everything and left hotel Thongsal at 7am.Filled petrol and on the way visited Shey Palace and  Thiksey monestry and reached Karu by 830am. Had breakfast the usual Alloo parantha with rajma curry and left at about 900am.We passed Upshi Tanglang la the second highest pass  17582 feet. The roads were very slippery full of slush and gravel.  We encountered one land slide </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/blog-631760.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 13  Khardung La Khardungla Pass</title>
                    <description>Got up at about 6 am and left to Khardung La. Ravish and JP decided to stay back and hence I went with Brian and Payal in the same xylo driven by Ali. We had breakfast before we left and reached Kardung La the highest motorable road in the world at about  18380 feet  by 8 am.There me and Brian trekked to the highest point of pass and took some awesome photographs. Then had maggi and ladhaki chai </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/Khardung-La/blog-631758.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 12  Leh to Pangong Tso Pangong Lake</title>
                    <description>Got up at 5 am had tea and left to Pangong Lake by cab. Ali was the driver and xylo was the car.Left at 6am and then on the way had breakfast at Karu and reached the Lake at 11am.Then went for a walk on the banks of the lake.This is the biggest salt water lake in Asia which is 7 kms wide and 130 kms long. One third of this lake is in india and the rest lies in China.Took lot of pictures of the lak</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/Pangong-Tso/blog-631757.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 11  Leh</title>
                    <description>We had the luxury or sleeping till 7am for the first time since we started this trip on the 26th of may 10 days ago.Got up and arranged for applying for the inline permits and then had breakfast and went to the main bazzar and went to a mechanic to get the JPs bike checked just opposite the SN memorial Hospital. The mechanic there did a few things and told us that was all he could do and at high a</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/Leh/blog-631756.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 10  Khargil to Leh</title>
                    <description>Got up at 400am by now getting up at 4 has become a habbit and all of us are getting up 510mns before our alarms go off.Got ready and packed all the bags and put them on our bikes and this time to prevent dust we covered them with plastic garbage bags. We left our hotel Hotel dZojila Kargil at 630am. We fueled up all the bikes just outside Kargil.Since we had got a message from prithv</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Ladakh/Leh/blog-631755.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 9  Srinagar to Khargil</title>
                    <description>Got up at about 4am and got ready and packed everything on the bikes and were ready by 6 am. Left the house boat area by 620am and fueled up all the bikes and hit the Sonamarg road.Had breakfast at a dhaba at 8am. Then started riding and reached sonamarg by about 10am.Sonmarg was beautiful with lot of greenery and plenty of white snow all over. There were pleanty of ponies everywhere and a little</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Kargil-Town/blog-631754.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 8  Srinagar</title>
                    <description>Got up at 630pm took some photographs from the House boat. Had breakfast and at 9am left on a Shikhara ride.We went through Nigen lake floating gardens Char Chinar to Nishant garden and the ride was for about 2 hours. The shikara ride was an unique  experience which lasted for 2 hours through the floating gardens where we saw vegetables and fruits being grown organically using the fungai from t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Srinagar/blog-631753.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 7  Udhampur to Srinagar</title>
                    <description>Got up at 4 am and went to Krishna temple and attended arathi. After aarathi left Udhampur ISKCON at 630am enroute to Srinagar.At about 8 am reached Patnikot hill top and sat there and had breakfast which was given to us by ISKCON.After breakfast started riding and within about 30 minutes it started raining and we had to ride with our rain coats on.The entire route was very picturesque with lot o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Srinagar/blog-631752.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 6  Vaishnodevi</title>
                    <description>Got up at 620am. I had a dream that it rained the whole night even when I got up I was thinking hopefully they wont cancel the helicopter since it is cloudy and raining heavily but fortunately it was just a dream and it was actually sunny and pleasant outside.After the morning routine went down met Mataji who had already arranged for a Taxi. The taxi came at 730am and we left immediately. S</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Vaishnodevi-/blog-631751.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 5  Dalhousie to Udhampur via Kajiara</title>
                    <description>We started at 730am and went to Kajiara IndianMini Switzerland as it is called true near chamba valley which is 27 kms from Dalhousie. You will know why it is called so once you see the pictures.On the way we drove through a couple of forest ranges filled with pine trees. On one of the passes just outside Dalhousie we got some fantabulous view of several snow covered peaks which gave a lot of </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Jammu-and-Kashmir/Udhampur/blog-631599.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 4  Mcleod Ganj to Dalhousie</title>
                    <description>Ravish and JP got up at 530am went out to kiss some misses and returned at 630am.Then all of us went for a walk to the Jogi para Market place.Then we went to Tsuglagkhang compex and visited Tsuglagkhang temple Namgyal gompa and Kalachakra temple and saw the official residence of Dalai Lama. At the complex we met two tibetians who recognized us to be Kannadigas and started talking to us in Kanna</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Himachal-Pradesh/Dalhousie/blog-631596.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 3  Amritsar to Mcleod Ganj</title>
                    <description>Got up about 545am and after packing went to Jallianwala Bagh at about 800am and returned and had Breakfast at 9.Then packed the balance and checked out of the hotel and started the ride from Amritsar at 1000am.Reached Pathankotat 145pm  via Batala Gurudaspur and had lunch at a Dhaba just after crossing the state border to Himachal Pradesh. Left the dhaba at 3pm. At the dhaba met an army offi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Himachal-Pradesh/Mcleod-Ganj/blog-631595.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 2  Chandigarh to Amritsar</title>
                    <description>Got up at 440am and we all got ready by 615 and settled the hotel bills and when we were about to take the luggage to our bikes there was a huge down pour and delayed our start. Luckily it got reduced after about 45 minutes. Though it stopped raining we loaded the entire luggage and wore our rain coats and got fully suited up and left after taking a few snaps in front of the hotel. We finally le</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Punjab/Chandigarh/blog-631593.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 1  Bangalore to Chandigarh</title>
                    <description>Got up at 4am did some reading on Leh Ladakh and got ready by 530 am. JP and Ravish came home by 7 am. We all did some small repacking and were ready by 715am.The IFMR gang came to bid good bye and left by 735am. We left home by 745am after saying good bye to our families.We got dropped at the airport in my car and we were there by 840am. By the time we checked in and finished the Security ch</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Punjab/Chandigarh/blog-631590.html</link>
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