Saturday, June 21, 2008

Leh - Manali road

After the bad night we had at Korzak, camping area, at Tso Moriri, we decided to take off from that area next morning as early as we can, trying to get a lift from somebody. A group of indian tourist, very nicley, offer us to take us back to Leh.
On our arrival to Leh we decide to go to a nice Guest House call, Oriental Guest House, excellent place to chill out, but we decided to "fly away" from Leh ASAP,to manali, 480kms away, went to the agency of friends, Discovery ladakh, the good energy was with us, we'd got a jeep with three canadians, super cheap. The trip? 18 hours my friends, crossing 5 passes, one with more than 5000 metres, was nice and spectacular at the beggining, but when as we reached the Rhotang la (Pass) near Manali, big traffic of trucks, fog, bad road codition and very danegrous, with part of the road almost falling apart, so I can imagine how bicycling this road would be, We calculate, 10 to 12 days to climb all 5 passes, but no guaranty that we can complete all of the road because of the conditions of the road. More than one time the road was under a river.
So basically that was the end of our bicycle trip. As we reached Manali we decide to take it easy, do some trekking, climbing etc... we are doing that right now!

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