Arre that is the HDR creating software watermark..!!

Btw, thanks for the comments..

Nice pics.
Will read log later in fursat

Lovely pics Inder ! Didnt anything interesting happen in your ride.. Dude.. give us details, insights.. spice it up.. Inspiration is not very far away..

^^ Inder can't spice it up, Inder is the spice!
Vishwas's log wud be spicy.. for more spicy-ness wait for spiderweb/alankar's log! (only wen they are back)

Thanks Kashif..!

Till now..nothing special..!! It was just HOT and HUMID.. Still many more days to go ...

Spidy's/Motor's/Alankar's log would be pretty ok types..they would be having KILLER POSER PICS with them..whole 8GB of them..

I, hereby, pre-declare those 'killer poser pics' boring.

@Paaji : Keep on posting I am just waiting for some "mirch masala"



P.S : Swapnil's FB status hints he have truck loads of "spices"

hahahaha..

Lets see..

mirch masala to mere log mein shayad kam hi mile...par i'll try to include that too..

I can guess what kind of spices they would be having..

Typical aman. Waiting for his comments when Mumbai gang starts their own thread.

why do you think so? DUDE, it'll (the LOG) burn half the Mumbai-Pune xhp, just wait till it CoOKs...

You mean to say that your log is already burnt while cooking and still you are risking half of pune and mumbai overdoing it?

Cool! Let's hear it then..

Since this was our rest day we woke up aaram se by around 10-10.30 and got ready to witness the beauty of Srinagar .. And let me tell you we were not disappointed on witnessing it. It surely lives upto its name of "City of Lakes and Gardens".

View of the small garden outside our hotel








That's me having a "Continental Breakfast"


When we ventured out of the hotel, we first moved towards "Dal Lake" which is known for "The shore line of the lake, about 15.5 kilometres (9.6 mi), is encompassed by a boulevard lined with Mughal era gardens, parks, houseboats and hotels. Scenic views of the lake can be witnessed from the shore line Mughal gardens, such as Shalimar Bagh and Nishat Bagh built during the reign of Mughal Emperor Jahangir) and from houseboats cruising along the lake in the colourful shikaras."

We hired on shikara boat for 300 bucks for a to-fro trip to "Chaar Chinaar" which is located at the center of the lake. The ride to the lake and back was one hellava ride where i could experience the beauty of the whole place and mann it was simple awesome..!! "NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE IT"..!! We clicked a lot of pics enroute..some are below...

Rudra along side Dal Lake


Me along side Dal Lake


The life-line of Srinagar people..Shikara & House-boat..


The road along side the lake


Dal Lake


Some tourists spotted along side the lake

Vishwas


Rudra


Me


Some random images
















Army personnel stationed at most places in srinagar


Finally a group pic inside the shikara








Vishwas in action


New-age poser boy






Going towards "Chaar Chinaar"








Ornaments shop on the go ..


The twins ride to chaar chinaar ...


Vishwas thinking to buy and Rudra buying the stuff


Aahh Finally..we reach our destination..




The on-duty officer..


View of the garden there..


Yours truly..


Some floral beauty












Our driver for the morning..


While on the ride back we asked the driver which was the best garden out of all 5-6 of them. He suggested "Pari Mahal" and on getting down from the shikara we headed towards the garden. The garden was simply marvelous and the view from there was awesome too. We could almost see the whole of srinagar and the surrounding mountains. Some of the pics clicked there are below..

Info about "Pari Mahal"












A helipad nearby


Anyone interested in Golf










A self portrait..


Night life at Dal Lake..AWESOME..!!


Once the visit to the garden was done we went for lunch and then Rudra and Me went to the mech for getting the oil change done (for me) and battery hunting (for Rudra). Once all was sorted out we all reched back to our hotel and enjoyed the dinner and went to sleep.

But, at around 1am vishwas woke up and told me to attend to a call..it was Aman who was calling and was hunting where our hotel was..i gave the directions and the whole gang was there within minutes. They all came in and directly went to the room. After that i left and they must have slept soon enough coz they were looking a bit tired as they had a lift their bikes over a BIG TREE which had fallen on road enroute srinagar.

Hope you all liked the pics..rest would be coming up soon..

Next: Day 4: Srinagar - Drass

Wrong!

Pardon me Mods but I dont agree to the Thread Topic- Loosing Biking Virginity.

I am amazed to see how can the moderators just approve a thread that is tittled like that. I mean, it is so wrong on the part of Inder to call himself Virgin ( wrt Biking).


Ok, now on the more serious note, I am seeing that a lot of our mates are getting Leh'ed, hah haa, they all are hell bent in loosing their VIRGINITY in the likes of Inder. I just can wait till September to go to Leh again. And want to be there before we have a 4 lane express highway with Pizza Cornors, KFCs, McDs and Nirulas Midway.


@ Inder: forget about the log, go ahead, send me the pics. Cant wait no more.


all cheers

dcs

Congrats man for the awesome ride...

Some pics have come out excellent!!!

Specially these two :





were these from the same cam as the rest or just that the exposure setting got right here?? Coz there's a huge difference in the qualities... ??


Anyways, Waiting for rest