the only thing is its tough getting things focussed dcs bhai would be able to say it better as for his first hand experience

DCS, that was a cool trip log . Maza aa gaya padh ke.

WOW ! This needs some skills man to sync up the actions .

Sorry Shivanshu, please contact Aryan for any clarifications, I did not have any HAND in that.

Nice Pictures Aryan , DCS you rock man . mast trip log.. keep it up

Ooppss sorry couldnt recognise from BACKside bhai well kudos to Aryan Da for multitasking........

I was waiting for the exiting write up by Mr Row-Heat..
Beautifully Framed!

Kya hga aage..?? kya DCS time pe pahuncte hai, kya aryan ne firr koi drama kiya.??
Unhone kitni fto khhechi..??

Dekhte Rahiye! Dharawahik.. Hum Log

Wonderful pics, and a very refreshing writeup. Its hypnotic too!

You've laced your experience with photoes, information and experience in really enviable and apt proportion. I need to either get a pen and a writing pad out, or start googling most of it. But that would dilute the feeling i am feeling right now.

Thanks Aryan and dcs.

Swagat hai aap sabhi xBhpians ka Break k baad.

Now that none of my OLD MONKS responded to the phone calls, we decided to move towards the hills.
Stopped at Koti for some tea. Aryan opted for Coffee instead. While sipping tea and coffee respectedly, Aryan and me clicked some pictures. (I hope our respective and respected Girl Friends are not reading this else I would not be very glad to see Aryan with a blue Eye, broken teeth and Bleeding nose. As for me, well, mine knows how much I drool over at the beautiful sights.)Warning: Battery Exhausted!
I said to myself. And one more push, this time mighty enough to send me away from my path, straight on the rocks, crashing the Right side RVM. I was bloody concerned about the fairing though.
Signaled Aryan to come and assist me in lifting my bike up. And it took us some 30-40 seconds to finish the task. Later did I realize that it was a strong wind that sent me off track. Upon realizing what could have been worse, I thanked my lucky stars, crossed my heart that I would not think about Katrina Kaif again while riding in Himalayas and slowly made our way to Bhawanagar.
Looked at the clock in the meter..3.45pm, then looked at the sky above, dark clouds.

WoW... you guys had some trip there...

And DCS sir hats off to your interesting pics and log.

Aryan da the minute details you have given there are amazing...

EXITING?????? goggle says that EXITING is , , v.intr. To make one's exit; depart.!! did you mean Exciting????
just curious though

@dcs : brilliant write up .. loved it all ...

Day - 5: The return leg starts.

Day -5: The return leg starts.

Route: Kaza - Tabo - Nako - Jhakdi (just before Rampur).

I could not sleep properly the whole night. Some sort of restlessness kept me wide awake for the most part. I even tried to shoot some stars, but the lack of any kind of light made it almost impossible to do so (it was after all a moonless night). DCS was sleeping, while I was dreaming about the wonderful ride that I had. This was not the kind of ride that could be done each month, at a leisure pace. This is something that requires a fair bit of planning, and ofcourse quite a lot of time in hand.

I don't know when I felt asleep to these thoughts, but when I woke up early in the morning, the sun was just starting to rise and the hills were glowing brown and gold with the sunlight. I took out the camera and shot some pictures of the same.

Early morning, at Kaza.









After waking up, and freshening up and lubing the drive-chains of our respective machines, we started from Kaza towards Delhi. It was a very chilly morning and the wind was really getting to us. Enroute, we stopped again at Lingti village to have a hot cup of tea each, which really helped us warm a little.

A wild plan which did strike our crazy minds was that we should try and hit Delhi by continously riding towards Delhi. We calculated. It would take us 24 hours of continous riding to get to Delhi from Kaza. We wanted to do it, but then again not everyone is a Lovemax or Yogesh Sarkar. As much as we wanted to do it, the weather somehow played spoil-sport. We reached Bhaba Nagar, which acted as our destination for the first night, at about 4pm. The weather was getting really bad. It started to drizzle. We rode on. We wanted to reach Rampur before calling it a day. But, we had barely crossed Bhaba Nagar when it started to rain furiously. We took shelter under the huge rocks which grace the roads of the whole of Kinnaur valley. After the rain let off a little, we started our enroute journey.

We were really cold, and hungry and a little tired of all that was ensuing - the weather, the road conditions, and ofcourse the chill. We reached a place called Jhakdi, about 10kms. from Rampur. We searched for a nice, cheap cozy room there, and called it a day. Delhi was still 500+ kms. away. The weather was looking bleak, but atleast the Vodafone network had started to follow us from Jhakdi! I would like to mention here that if you use a Vodafone network, you are in for some real trouble. Use only Airtel, Aircel or BSNL if you plan to visit such remote places like Spiti or even Kinnaur. Vodafone will NOT follow you wherever you go. That's the BIGGEST misleading advertisement one can ever find.

Because of the bad weather, we did not click any pictures of the ride back. Hence, you would only see text and not many pictures.

Next - Day 6: We dash back to Delhi, enroute meeting with a few Chandigarh xBhpians, and getting stopped by three young and healthy boys on a Hyundai Accent, on NH-1!

I had IDEA 4 years ago. And it worked nearly everywhere. Even GPRS was working!

I have no idea about IDEA but VODAFONE surely did NOT follow me, nor DCS!

Your hehehehehehe is creating doubts about your claim .

@Aryan: The morning pictures have came out beautifully. It is such a pleasant and beautiful view to see mountains peaks being touched by sunlight while the base is still under the shadow. It shows how magnificent the mountains around are. Beautiful.