the third day was a very special day we were about to bike on the world's highest road, we didnt know how it would be like to bike until that point, would that be okey to climb from 3500m to 5600m just in 2-3 hrs.. how our body would react to it.. we had reached Leh just 2 days ago and were struggling with sleep.
with all such things in mind, we left our Khan manjil guesthouse at 7:30 on the 'Pulsars' that we had rented and taken with us previous evening. we went to our fav chai shop for a cup of tea and samosa.. and started the journey..
surprisingly we lost our ways few times, one time we went couple of kms on wrong way.. (after-all to err is human ;-) )
path was quite winding as one would expect with countless hairpin bends..
but the view was getting better n better as we were going up.. but also as we were going up there were new peaks and new roads.. and it was endless :D
slowly it was all covered in snow and the road had completely disappeared and replaced by potholes and big stones on the road.. many times there were water-streams crossing the road, but they were harmless.
then we climbed to nearby peak .. I wasn't so much in mood but Parth had already started and to catch up I also started but by the time I reached where he was standing earlier, he had reached much higher ... this continued for some time until we were at some ~100m higher from Khardung La(5602m).
It felt GREAT to be at such a height.. the max which I ever achieved in my entire life (not counting plan trips ;-)) .. don't know if I would ever go beyond this one (it was ~5700).. although the actual height of Khardung La is a controversy :(.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khardung_La
below is the view of the khardung la from the place where Parth had taken me to.
Time to pose and celebrate ..
yes, we did it..
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