DRAGON RIDERS

I woke up in Pangong Lake at 6 AM. I  was  excited to see the view of it. Oh my God! What a feeling to see such a heavenly view as first thing in morning. Crystal blue carpet of water lying in the house of Himalayas. I took my camera with other stuff and ran towards the lake to click some pictures. There I saw a group of boys from Srinagar who were struggling with their camera. So I clicked some pictures for them and in return got some pictures clicked of myself. I was so indulged that I forgot to look around for my friends. Then I saw one of my friends who got separated from us at Karu , he has already seen my bike and was enquiring about me at the Dolma restaurant where I stayed. But I was still busy with my camera, capturing the pure light of that place. At the same time I saw few more riders of our group approaching, these riders got separated at Chang La . All where looking for me and I was enjoying watching that from lake. Finally I got back to them and w...

     First day in Leh. We woke up   around 7 AM . We had good sleep and a hot shower after 3 days, it was really refreshing. After packing up ,while having breakfast in the hotel, we came to know that if you want to go anywhere around Ladakh like Nubra valley or Pangong lake, you need to take Inner-line permit from the tourism office of Leh. Information which is available online regarding this says that if you are an Indian citizen you don't need to take any permit, which is incorrect. You have to go to the tourism office and take permit by paying some charges  which vary on number of days of permit. It will cost you around 300-400 per person. After taking that permit and getting our petrol tanks full, we went to a mechanic. There we heard that all the routes to passes (Khardung la and Chang la) are blocked due to heavy snowfall and land slides. After talking with some of the riders, it was confirmed that we won't be able to go to Nubra valley passing Khardu...

           To make your Ladakh trip memorable you have to start dreaming about it at least 3,4 months before the actual trip. I  started dreaming about it 3 years ago but could not execute the plan till now due to many hindrances,sometimes I didn't get the right company and other couples of reasons included money crunches and time shortage. I waited for all the factors to be right because I didn't want to do a Ladakh trip only for the sake of it. I always wanted to make it my lifetime memory.       31st December 2016, the New year eve, it is when we all made our first and foremost New Year resolution to  surely go on a Ladakh trip this year. From that day onwards, we started doing our informal researches in our spare time. My First important online research which I have made to schedule the trip is about the right time/month to go Ladakh. As we all know for bike ride to Ladakh, the season starts in late-may and...