I looked on the blog today for pictures of the ride into the Nubra Valley and found I hadn’t posted them. So, this is about 18 months late… Picked up a 350cc Bullet, fuelled up, and headed out of town. Late start, about noon, but I wanted to make sure I could get around town …
I had ridden small, automatic and semi-automatic, bikes in Laos but had never ridden a ‘real’ one. I started out renting a Pulsar 150 for three days. And only dropped it once :) It was a real treat to be out on the open road, visiting monasteries and quiet villages. In some places there was …
My guesthouse was comfortable and clean, with a spotless bathroom – funny how bathroom cleanliness quickly becomes one of the most important criteria by which to judge lodgings whilst on the road – and a nice sunny garden in which to enjoy breakfast. Breakfast was Tibetan bread with butter and locally harvested and made apricot …
My share taxi was due to leave at 5:00 am from about 40 minutes walk from the hotel so it was an early start with the alarm going off at 3:45 am. I had a quiet, dark walk through the back streets before heading out to the ‘Boulevard,’ the main road along the lake. There …
9:30 am Sitting on a bench at Baijnath Paprola (again) I had a relaxed, although early, start to the day. I left the Hotel Uhl at about 6:30 and walked halfway to the station before a young man on a motor cycle stopped and offered me a ride. I was in no rush but why …
From Macleodganj, I got a taxi to Kangra Mandir railway station, the nearest point on the narrow gauge railway line from Pathankot to Joginder Nagar. More precisely, I took a taxi as far as it could get down narrow lanes until it could go no further, then walked across a suspension bridge and through more …