Ladakh Day 1 ... part 1 ... (22/08/08) ...
So the day to start finally arrived on 22nd of Aug and we were all geared up. Well .. almost.
(Actually i wasn't even ready with my stuff the day before :D. With lots of last minute shopping including Shoes, I somehow managed to get things packed and was almost ready to go. )
So i woke up at 3 got ready at 4:15 .. all packed .. and called T to find out where he was. At 5am we met outside the oberoi hotel in delhi. And our journey started at around 5:15 in the morning. The clouds were there, but were not that threatening. So we started with leh in our minds.
The morning ride was quite ok, not too good cos the road just arnd the delhi border was not in a very good condition (this was the impression on the very first day), but still ok we were excited enough that this didn’t mattered much and we took our first break at murthal. Some 56kms were covered in abt an hour. We stopped to have some tea, but didn’t eat any thing there.
The eating breakfast part came some 80 kms and 2 hours later (8:30am) at Zilmil Dhaba.. Now this is a place that you have to have Paranthas ! :) . It did drizzled arnd panipat which by the way is a great place to just cos of the new flyover they have, its just so easy to cross panipat now.
When we were not sure that it will actually rain so we never covered out bags, as you can see in this photo.
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| From Ladakh - Day1 |
(yes ! I was carrying that much of load , and yes a I need to learn to ride lighter ! :P, T was on his bajaj avenger, the bullet is mine. )
So as the clouds were getting darker we thought we cover the bags and then go ahead, but after 50% unpacking we thought well its not gonna rain so lets just ride and see what will happen.
And and and … it started raining arnd ambala.
Cont….
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P.S…. these are turning out to be pretty long posts .. so it will take time to finish !
