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

Sonmarg is amazingly beautiful...wow!

Wow! Sonmarg is really beautiful!

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.

Wonderful set of photographs those!

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...

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...

Nice clicks Aman!!! Waiting for more.

Thanks Rachit... but keep working (if there is work!)

Ohoo.. i was gonna ask you.. no probs.

Nice nice..Bhery nice.

Btw..M size t shirts were not available at K-top.

vow.. Aman.. aap bhi.!! sahi hai..
superb man.. am loving watching this threads..!! i guess now a different topic altogether should be made of Leh-Rides..
it will be amazing reading the story from you dude, as you where an only common rider for some patches with either groups..!!!
The pix are marvelous man.. plz dont stop.... am putting away my work to just going through this beautiful threads Aman..

Mail only the essential one's.. there won't be many, im not a poser you know.

I can see more such threads popping up later this month, I am sure! And we are all loving it.

Yes boss but there are quite a few so will try multiple mails. So instead of me posting them in your thread, you can do it on your own.