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Khardung Village – Ganglas (upper Leh) – Zingral - Tangtse
Distance this period: 187.94 km Total Distance: 1881.35 km
Khardung - 0 km
Ganglas – 52.96 km
Zingral – 81.70 km
Tangtse – 53.28 km
Early morning; woke up without water or food, rode about 10 km to Khardung village for breakfast.
Then the nasty climb of that side up to the Top was killing. It was already 1 o'clock when I crossed North Pullu, continued, I could see sunny weather turning cloudy and 5 km short of the Top it started raining. I started pushing The X on slippery, watery, cold road.
And then a cabbie offered me a lift, couldn’t say no, looking at the furious weather. My plan was to camp just below the Top (~1 km), while coming down I saw one abandoned road workers camp but lift was there, they dropped me at South Pullu. Had some noodles there and rode towards Leh till I found a camp spot just before Leh town.
Kms covered - 52.96
Total expense - 215/-
Kms covered - 52.96
Total expense - 215/-
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The crystal clear milky chilled water.[/caption][caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"]
Army convoy, a dream come true to salute the full convoy. Some smiled, some gave weired look.[/caption][caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"]
Yes! thats the plan. all the way up to KhardungLa Top.[/caption][caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"]
Leh again.[/caption]
Leh again, but continued riding left on Manali road, met a cyclist from Israel. Little chat. Then late breakfast at Karu, packed emergency food. Straight road goes to TanglangLa, I took left turn. Made it to Sakti by noon. Junction; left goes to WariLa, some eating joints are there, had some food there and headed right to ChangLa. What a climb it is, killing gradient. Asked for shelter at Zingral army camp, denied. Then there was this guy called Shindhe, he pointed me to GREF campsite, other side of the road. Nice stay; got heater, some rum, chicken rice and lots of gyan. Zingral Camp
Kms covered - 81.70
Total expense - 250/-
Kms covered - 81.70
Total expense - 250/-
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At Sakti[/caption][caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"]
The green Sakti.[/caption][caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"]
The lonely climb to ChangLa[/caption][caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"]
Pushing is normal here.[/caption]Had tea early morning there and left. It took 4 hrs to cover last 12 km of ChangLa top, road was pretty bad. At the top, tea was 30 rupees a cup, noodles 60 a plate, great.
But it’s THE TOP.
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And WOW! Amazingly wow!! another TOP!!![/caption][caption id="" align="alignleft" width="640"]
Maggie noodles was banned on lowlands but here, I paid 80 rs for this.[/caption]
Downhill starts from the top, road are nice and tarred. Rained a bit, repeated same mistake of not breaking at the water crossing and fell off the bike. A puncture, left side of the break system broke, don’t know how will I survive with only rear breaking. It’s all down to Durbuk. Junction; left goes to Agham, I took right to Tangtse. A bad day.
Kms covered - 53.28
Total expense - 900/-
Kms covered - 53.28
Total expense - 900/-
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The road, other side of the pass.[/caption][caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"]
The risky road, not so great for skinny tire like mine.[/caption][caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"]
But vistas are great.[/caption][caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"]
This is the curve I came screaming down and glitched the first bad patch but struck on second. got a bad hit, a distorted handlbar, broke front breaking system.[/caption]
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