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Originally Posted by ssambyal1980 Excellent travelogue Sir!!! GODSPEED
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Thanks So Much!
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Originally Posted by gmhossain In a debate, both sides have chances of winning. However, in these debates where your daughter is on the other side, basically you get to begin after the verdict is declared! As a smitten father your valiant effort, in the best case scenario, and despite the fact that it was 13th day for you, was to reduce the margin of defeat!
Anyway, it's wonderful to read you new travelogue, after a while. In fact, when I saw it, I had mistakenly thought, it must be your previous Ladakh travelogue.
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True, in the case of this debate, you'll appreciate, that there wasn't even an effort to reduce the margin of defeat!
Thanks for taking your time to read. Actually, to be honest, it was after meeting you last time at the Team-Bhp meet, that I kind of began to see some sense in posting travelogues. Otherwise, too many man hours that need investment, selecting pictures, preparing them from raw files, the actual typing and ofcourse uploading. Probably more time goes into posting a travelogue than to plan the actual travel!!
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Originally Posted by tomraven99 Awesome travelogue with some detailed info on some of the most remotest locations in Ladakh. How was Mughal road condition? And how many litres of fuel did you have to carry? |
Mughal Road, in comparison to 5 years back when we took it the first time, appeared to be billiard board quality! But having said that, Rajouri to Bafliaz isn't too good. Even the stretch after Poshana to Pir-Ki-Gali has disintegrated in parts. There is a long checking process at the Poshana Checkpost.
Regarding the Fuel. I was informed that fuel is available at most of the towns in Ladakh (Diskit has a Pump as well, as mentioned in this Travelogue) through Tyre repair shops (Puncher Repearing! - In local speak!!) in cans/bottles. However, I still carried one 30 liter can and filled it up from Leh for safety.
Now, since I mentioned that I had refuelled at Diskit. Soon after refuelling, I had occasional sputtering from the vehicle and a slight loss of power on the inclines. The vehicle somehow readjusted to the fuel and the problems were reduced after another few cycles but still remained a bit. Had me worried, since at that time, I wasn't sure it was the Fuel or something else. But on refuelling from the can, within a few kilometers the vehicle regained normalcy. But on my return route to Leh from Nyoma, I still had to refuel from a "Puncher Repearing" shop and the problem returned. Only to vanish with the fuel from Leh.
So my suggestion would be to stick to fuel from Leh/Karu as much as possible.
During my last trip, I had two 30 liter cans with us. Was also carrying a hand operated pump to refuel from those to the main tank.
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Originally Posted by floyd I am still not done with going through your photoblog, but just wanted to say this... I left India for California about 2 years back. California is very beautiful, but just cannot compare to the stark beauty of Ladakh and the Himalayas! I have been to Leh and Pangong Tso before I left India, and this brought back a wave of nostalgia. |
So True. In a previous phase of life, I have had the opportunity to see most of Americas, a lot of Europe and a little bit of Africa. But all said and done, Ladakh is Ladakh!
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Originally Posted by Surprise Wow! what a travelogue. Me too quickly jumped into reading this as I knew it would be a different and entertaining one finding out its from 1100D.
Are you very familiar with the directions and roads out there??? These scenes (attached pics) would drench one in uncertainty n fear. Didn't getting stuck there out came into your thought?? jus asking - |
Thanks so Much for the expectation, as well as making time to go through.
No, I am not familiar with the roads, but anyone with a little sense of direction and intuitiveness can make it in Ladakh without much of a difficulty.
The stretch that you attached pictures of, was particularly scary and as you rightly mentioned, uncertain. We had the option of turning back (good that we didn't), but the prospect of driving back downhill with two right side wheels on the scree (picture below) was unnerving as well.
Infact it was only because of this uncertainty, that the thought of stopping the vehicle, coming out and taking a few pictures in the snowfall did not even cross our minds.
Funnily enough, I got to know the name of a lot of our Gods and Goddesses, since my wife was busy praying at the back seat!
But then, yes quite a few people have done this route earlier. Had this not been the end-May/Beginning June timeframe, the route would have become a lot more stable (even the scree on the road would rearrange itself with more tyres having displaced them accordingly) and surefooted, with no snow or slush. Another thing, as you might have noticed on the thread, soon there is a possibility of a complete "Black-top" which will bring a lot more tourists and end the charm of it.
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Originally Posted by SJM1214 Yeah, it's possible that ITBP CP guys temporarily don't allow tourist for reason likes road blockage or security issues.
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That's precisely what I meant. Mostly because the check-posts usually have the last word (authority) to let someone in. If they deny passage for some reason, despite having a permit, one must show maturity not to aggravate it further by going into heated argument, instead a calm/cool level headed discussion, can probably help, if something at all can.