Ladakh # TripotoShoots

Tripoto
11th Jul 2015
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Ladakh-the Mecca of bikers
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Our beauty at Pangong
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Journey begins...
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Jammu-srinagar-aprrox. 300 kms.
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Enroute Sonmarg..Beautiful & first view of snow !
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Someone up there painting the mountains
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Champ -our Ladakhi driver - Dorjee
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Lets get lost here !
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difficult roads=beautiful destinations
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but simple roads bring happinessMakkhan road
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hey you mr. mountain..we are at same level
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some easy passes
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Our home stay in Ladakh...Kartok guesthouse
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morning 4.22 am
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evening view
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evening view......how do you come back from here
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Worried Monk
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The curious History ..standing tall
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Our Charmers
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Fluttering colourful Flags at khardungla
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beliefs
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Clear sky..clear water..happy us
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My fav, you just want to sit here for hours
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Riding along Pangong_Go pro click!
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cattles grazing at approx. 14,270 ft
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Sheer Beauty
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21 GATA loops (22 hairpin Bends)
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Wanderlust
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China border beyond..this lake is 2/3 in china and 1/3 in india
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Superb BRO quotes.
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where do you go??
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Riding along snow
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our host- Ladakhi Family
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Unfazed in war...Unmatched in peace
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when we look back ..what we have are loads of stories and memories
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Hanging bridge_Go pro click

Barren land, high passes, battling altitude sickness, crossing freezing streams, riding along fierce rivers and snow clad mountains, calm lakes, scary rains, meeting Maratha battalion at Kargil, hearing their stories, eating delicious parathas in Punjab, trying local Ladakhi food, saluting each and every army men passing by, acknowledging every passing rider, happy tears at Khardung La pass (world’s highest motor able road in the world), a visit to hall of fame in Leh, driving through crazy fog at Rohtang Pass at 3 am, crossing Baralacha pass in dark, our ride through Tso Kar lake, the word 'landslide' and the hatred associated with it, eating Maggi at Pang, attending a Ladakhi Birthday party and so much more. It was one of the best journeys of life. Someone has rightly said – “Travelling, it leaves you speechless and turns you into story teller.”

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