Pottumarthi

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 12:30pm. 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 Brian’s room. At 3:30 pm our cab arrived and we left to the airport. At the airport we all took out the luggage and in that confusion Ravish left his camera in the cab. We realised it after we got checked in. We then called Brian who through the hotel reached the cab service office and told us that he would collect the camera from them. The Jetlite aircraft ... read more

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 Rohtang pass by about 9:30am. Had lot of fun at the top did some power sledging and took lot of picutres and spent about 2 hours there. The ride till there was fun. We were all excited in seeing a board which read Manali 51kms but our happiness was short lived. The road between Rohtang and ... read more

Got up at 4:30am packed everything and left hotel Thongsal at 7am. Filled petrol and on the way visited Shey Palace and Thiksey monestry and reached Karu by 8:30am. Had breakfast the usual Alloo parantha with rajma curry and left at about 9:00am. We passed Upshi, Tanglang la the second highest pass @ 17,582 feet. The roads were very slippery full of slush and gravel. We encountered one land slide and one snow slide on the way. Luckily both the times bulldozers immediately cleared the paths and we just had to wait for about 10-15 mins each time. At the spot where the snow slide was there except Ravish’s bike all the other bikes got stuck and trying to get the bikes out was a very tough and we were breathless. Thankfully one of the cab ... read more

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 lake which throws out various shades of blue. This is where the last scene of the 3 idiots was shot. Then had lunch there and left at about 1:30pm and reached Leh by about 6pm. Then went out shopping with Brian and Payal and bought couple ... read more

Got up at 4:00am by now getting up at 4 has become a habbit and all of us are getting up 5-10mns 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 d’Zojila, Kargil” at 6:30am. We fueled up all the bikes just outside Kargil. Since we had got a message from prithvi that the roads between Kargil and Leh was good we were pretty excited. But to our surprise the roads were very bad as bad as the roads that we had encountered yesterday. As a matter of fact 75% of the entire stretch the roads were non existent. We reached Mulbek which is just about 35 kms from ... read more