Nice clicks Aman!!! Waiting for more.

Day 2: Madhopur - Samba - Udhampur - Srinagar

Day 3: Srinagar - Sonmarg (90kms)

We started from Madhopur and bypassed Jammu city by taking the Samba route. Its advisable as the roads are good and gets little shorter too. Its all ghats after Udhampur,
reached Jawahar tunnel around 8-9pm, got the first glimpse of the beautiful Kashmir valley (Titanic point) where all we could see was the stars above the pitch black below!

Srinagar was still 50kms away, straight road, pitch dark, no living being, it had rained and we could also see the lightning, and the cross-winds were adding to the whole effect.

Saw few vehicles stalled on the road, me wondering if there its a railway crossing, but a huge tree had fallen accross the road as lightnening had struck it! Waited for 10-15mins, but sensing that no help would come soon, decided the lift the bikes over to the other side, and carried on to reach Srinagar around 1am. Met Inder at the hotel (no he didnt come out to escort us, just shouted from the lobby, we could only hear his voice), and went off to sleep.

Heard a continuos knocking at our door around 7-8am and I knew nobody would get-up, or if someboy does, the guest (Inder) would receive a punch in the face!

We got up around 10-11am, only to find Pune guys had left for Drass. I was not surprised as they had waited for us for a day. Our departure from Srinagar got delayed as spiderweb's bike has a possible puncture, and it took time to find a puncture shop. It was already 2pm and it started raining, so we halted for food at a park opposite Dal Lake, and thought of spending the day in a houseboat and starting off next morning. But the weather opened up by 3pm, and we decided to move ahead till Sonmarg, as Drass was not possible before dark.

Dal Lake





First view of Sonmarg..











Exiting Sonmarg...

Loved the treatment you gave to the pics. Keep them coming...

P.S : Am glued to these getting Leh'd threads in office and people around think all of a sudden I have become workaholic...

Wonderful set of photographs those!

Aman

What a photography man!! Love all the snaps. I am sure that you had capture all the beauty of Kashmir

Waiting for rest of days snaps.

Wow! Sonmarg is really beautiful!

Sonmarg is amazingly beautiful...wow!

Lovely treat for our eyes
Amazing pics aman sirjee..... which cam are they captured from?

Inder never told me that he went out to bring your guys in. While I was sleeping, I heard Inder giving detailed instructions on phone and later he went out of the room so thought he went out of the hotel till the lane end at least.

Secondly, the knocking was not around 7-8 am. It was before 6am and you are welcome to punch the guest who was knocking.

The Dal lake and Sonmarg photos are too good Aman..start watermarking them or I might steal them
I am glued to this thread too..please continue..

Thanks all...

Captured from Panasonic Lumix FZ35.

Steal man... its nature.. its for everyone.

Beautiful pics., loved each and every shot..!!

Beautiful pics; 5 star rating given to the log

aman.. wow man.. i cant stop looking at the pics.. saved all of em

amazing stuff man!

Freaging awesome pix aman..!! Just too beautiful.. perfect justice to the place.. thanks for sharing