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Excellent Kurt... enjoying every bit of it! Now i feel i should stopped more often n clicked... I dont have much clicks for Nubra :-(
Eagerly waiting for the 'rude shock'!! ;-)
Eagerly waiting for the 'rude shock'!! ;-)
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Amazing Pics Kurt, no words to describe. You made a presence that I was at that place with your pics. Really Batalik route was good one with lot of twists & turns. Even we passed through it twice without any permits. The army people at check post are very much helpful & given us hot tea & milk & even helped us in finding accommodation darchik.Give way to trains.Comment
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Dada,
I will be the first one to say it - you need to STOP touring for 2-3 months if you will, but buy a reasonable camera. These pics are horribly out of focus. Not doing justice to your fantastic ride and the scenery. Much much worse than your sach pass pics as well!
PS: Just retested my eyes/monitor on tanveer's thread. SO its not an issue on my side - the pics are not good!!http://www.bikenomads.com/wiki/index.php/Leh - All you ever need to know about getting Leh'd.
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I understand your concern.
But the fact of the matter is that I don't spend hours on photoshop editing and making the pics look like miracles and the place like heaven, or should I say I dont find that necessary.
However, I'll keep your suggestion into consideration and start saving.
Thanks for suggesting.." I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not" - Kurt Cobain
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Wouldn't it be a wonderful idea if you also posted the pics as attachment.Sad souls like us can atleast the pics that people are drooling over. You know what I am not able to concentrate on my work.
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Fabulous narration vaibhav and awesome clicks.........
eagerly waiting for more pics........
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@Kurt: Beautifully narrated. I loved reading through the text, and enjoyed the photographs too! Thanks for sharing.
@Tau:I believe this is more of a documentary kind of photography that Kurt does on almost all of his tours. It is not neccesarily photography-centric, so to speak. Fore more C&C, let's get to tPin!
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@ Kurt: I seriously need to be a religious follower of all your touring threads. Boy, you never fail to mesmerize me with your logues.
Leh ka thread ho aur B2L na boley? aise ho he nahi sakta!Originally posted by born2lead View PostKurt: Bhai feel aa gayi padh ke
very inspiring, and few of the shots are just mesmerizing, breath taking... beautiful Thanks for sharing and pls keep them coming.
Good that your office dint filter the images. Guess they will be the motivation for this year ride. Will start preparing for it the next month. All set?Originally posted by Mik View PostGoody goody ... gee.. geee.. i am getting the goose bumps on seeing the images (The office filtering didn't block these thankfully !!!)Oh please, upload it all !!Oh how i need to ride
Sarcasm at it best!! Man, you just are invincible with your wonderful comments. You know how to hit the bulls eye. Hatts off!!Originally posted by hitanshu View Post
Originally posted by kurtrules View PostI understand your concern.But the fact of the matter is that I don't spend hours on photoshop editing and making the pics look like miracles and the place like heaven, or should I say I dont find that necessary. However, I'll keep your suggestion into consideration and start saving. Thanks for suggesting..
@ Kurt again: I understand you are not the one who would be PPing the photographs but a good camera would anytime be an icing on the cake.
all cheers
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Brillianto! nothing more to add...
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One of the finest LEH pics I should say ..... Too good ... Keep 'em coming dudeComment
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Day 6: Diskit – Khalsar – Agham – Shyok – Durbuk – Tangste – Pangong – Tangste
6:45 am we see a white swift pulling up at our hotel’s main gate. It’s Sandeep and Rahul. They were bang on time (if we exclude a half hour delay, which is quite understandable, as it’s cold and both man and machine have to be ‘refurbished’ each day to endure the journey ahead
Got what I mean? No? Koi na, forget about it, forget I even mentioned these lines)
Ahem, so we join them finally at 7 and head off to Khalsar, the place where the road to Leh bisects to Agham.
Now this route was somewhat scary. I mean there was weed (no, not that one) in patches over the road, stones scattered all over at some places, so much that Sandeep had get down and move the rocks at times.. Although the road was fine, but it was evident that it had not been used in a long time.
Some kilometers later, the road improves. Newly laid tarmac. I let it rip. After a long time (read 1.5 days) I let it rip across the corners. I rip, and I rip some more and I rip a lot and then……
I wait for the rest.
What comes to you mind when I write Agham? I know what you thinking, a small Ladakhi village with a few mud houses, a small school and a “desi-theka”, with a population of say a 100. Right?
Wrong!
There was no Agham. There was just a house, of all I know. A small little house with a courtyard and fencing on the perimeter. And yes, a tiny cultivated area, not to forget! That was it. Agham.
Agham:
(Pic courtesy Sandeep)
Post Agham we get confused. One road leads to Wari-la and the other, we don’t know. We stop. We shake our heads.
And then we see this:
Some wise soul has marked the way to Shyok on the dozer. On further investigation, we realize that it had also been marked on the milestone.
Finally we turn right and continue. The road gets even better here. I end up laughing at the guy who told me that the condition of the road is pathetic. Poor chap must have been here last century, I wonder. But the funny part was, in all the 30 odd kilometers we had seen no vehicle, except for one sumo. That was it. I wonder why.
This is why:
That was the road. Wait, can we actually call that a road. Well, whatever you call it now, we had to ride on it back then.
The change was abrupt. The black top ends so suddenly that we dont even realize the transition and have to brake hard. The road is all gravel, but initially there are portions of loose rocks over it and there is a significant ascend to cross. Archit attempts to go first. The rocks are slippery, his bull get stuck. Wheel spin, lots of it. I park my bike and heave the 250 kg loaded monster from the rear. He somehow wriggles out. Then I go and then Prashant follows. We then park our bikes and look at the Swift behind us.
The situation is tense. Rahul engages the first gear and gives throttle. The front tyre spins radically but to no avail as the rocks are slippery. He tries again and narrowly escapes from an damaging the oil-sump which would have been a disaster in such a situation. Then we see Tanveer arriving on his safari. We dislodge more rocks for clearance and Rahul tries to cross over again. But failure this time on as well. We can smell the clutch. It could burn anytime, Tanveer confirms; leave aside screwing up the oil-sump. Tanveer then fires the safari and crosses with ease. He offers to pull the swift through the slide but the road ahead (most of it) looks the same.
Hence Sandeep and Rahul turn back, hoping to get to Pangong either from Wari La, else from Leh. We bid them farewell and continue.
These pics will give you an idea:
The road goes on in similar fashion for around 5 more kilometers till we see the safari parked next to the bridge. It seems that there is a passage only for bikes to go through and cars would have to cross the river. Cross a river? Seriously? Yes, cross the river.
The bridge
We cross over. I go to one side of the bank and signal Tanveer that the water nearly above waist height. It would be deeper in the middle. Would be suicide to wade the safari through it!
The river:
So, Tanveer stays for the meanwhile while we carry on.
And then after around 20 kms of similar track, we hit black gold!
Some more pics en route:
Stallions’:
We finally arrive at Durbuk, bypassing Changla and saving a lot of time and distance!
From here on, we head off to Tangste. It was around 12:30 when we got there. Found a rest house on the outskirts and god a good bargain for Rs 300.
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..Next up ladies and gentlemen, the latest tourist attraction of Modern India, coming up with state of art multiplexes and recreation centres next year, The Pangong Lake and Tourist Centre, Changthang, Ladakh. Please assist us in keeping Changthang clean!
Damn these tourists……!
Pics courtesy me, Archit and Prashant" I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not" - Kurt Cobain
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haha... badiya....!
but.... after that house in Agam, there came a small bridge, from where there was a left and a right. The left had a tombstone which read "Ladakh Utsav 4kms", and nothing on the right. So I took the left and 100mts ahead found another Agam house and honked hard till its members came out. Asked them the directions and carried on straight ahead. Now i'm not sure if u took the left or the right from there. I don't recall seeing that marked bulldozer.| Judging a bike by a cubic capacity yardstick is like judging a female by her bra size |
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Excellent writeup and lucky you had such brilliant experience!
How I wish I would ride down there sometime!
@tourists: Please make an honest effort not to malign the sanctity of such magnificent locations
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