Part 2 -Manali-Leh-Srinagar
. ..continued from Part 1 -Pune to Manali and return from Ludhiana to Pune The land here is so barren and the passes so high that only the bestest of friends and fiercest of enemies would want to visit us -said a board en-route Pangong... Following is an account of how barren the land was and high the passes were, yet how tranquil and mystic the nature was! THE ROADS,PASSES,HOTELS and more We left Manali on June 18 at around 4 am to avoid traffic of tourist taxis going to Rohtang-La (pass #1 of the 11 passes that we covered till Srinagar) . Yet, we encountered traffic after riding for about 10 kilometers and then the road was closed to clear a landslide. The road was like this at the beginning It then became like this It gradually ceased to look like a road ...And then came the Rohtang-La A biker from Jharkhand was riding the old model of Karizma and could not change his gear. Tejas and Sagar tried to help him for 10-15 minutes, ...