Sketches from life: Motorcycle ride to Ladakh

Monday, 13 October 2014

Following beautiful photo-blog has been contributed by my son Mukul Wardhan.

यह सुंदर फ़ोटो-ब्लॉग मेरे बेटे मुकुल वर्धन की प्रस्तुती है ।

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For us bikers it is a dream to kick start the bike & go on a long ride in to the Himalayas. Three of us started off from Delhi -

Mukul Wardhan on - Royal Enfield Classic 500,

Avnish Shukla on - Royal Enfield Thunderbird 350 &

Dev Badda on - Royal Enfield Classic 350.

The route was :

> Delhi - Pathankot - Jammu - Srinagar - Pahalgam - Drass - Karnama - Mulbek - Leh.

> Leh - Khardungla - Diskit - Panamik - Hunder - Leh.

> Leh - Pang - Sarchu - Tandi - Jispa - Keylong - Rohtang - Manali - Chandigarh - Delhi.

Journey was covered in 12 days in July 12. Photos have been taken on Nikon DSLR.

Hope you enjoy the scenery as much as we did.

- Mukul

Srinagar Highway - only 502 km to go to Leh!

Banihal

Banihal - Avnish getting ready after a break

Crossed the Jawahar Tunnel - ready to ride

Landslide near Zozi La Pass resulted in a traffic jam

Jawans have started clearing the landslide debries

Traffic jam can be seen on snake like road all over the mountain!

Rest while the road is being cleared

Now you can kick start

Frozen river along the road

Tough roads require tough bikes & tough bikers!

Melting Ice spoiled the road & vehicular pollution spoiled the ice walls - Zozi La

Frozen river - Zozi La altitude 11649 ft

Photo op - Zozi La

Pirpanjal range - Drass

Tea break in Drass

Drass has a valley of flowers too!

Peaks of Drass as evening descends

Sketches from life