Pune-Leh-Pune bike trip
After biking for 20 days across nine states in extreme rain, heat, cold and altitude we returned yesterday with a lot of stories and lifetime experience! I thought a lot about how to pen it down on this blog and have decided to make it partly as an everyday account and partly categorise the experiences into some heads -which would make it more interesting and informative to those who are planning a similar trip. Part I consists of the journey from Pune to Manali and the return journey from Ludhiana to Pune. Part II is all about Manali to Leh road, information about our stay, various experiences and so on... Hope you enjoy the read and feel free to make a comment...I mean it as I have removing the moderation setting for comments. Here it goes: The planned route has been published in the previous post, but we faced difficulties (details given below) in following it. So the actual route that we took was June 11 -Pune to Vapi (292 kms) ...fell short in covering the distance bec...