Places visited: Changla Pass (17688 ft), Pangong Lake(Highest salt water lake of the world)
After a good sleep and healthy breakfast the day started, time was to say good bye to small cute tents :D :P.
We loaded again everything on the bike, This time we had to go Pangong Lake, took right after crossing the famous Pang bridge on the river Indus. It was around 9 AM Friday morning. We left just after taking this photograph for our memories.
We went directly to petrol station to fill our tanks, then moved ahead to the checkpost for bike entry process. It took another 30 mins to finish these paper works and move ahead in the valleys, time would be around 10.30 AM.
We consulted few local people and asked, that is it possible to go and come back in one day from Pangong Lake? Mostly answered yes, because the roads will far better than Nubra Valley. The initial 40 KMS from Leh till Karu was a charm, we were running on 100+ but when we crossed the check post, it was Rajputana Rifles Regiment there and thereafter we had to cross Changla Pass(17688 ft).
So the valley started again, the roads were again dangerous. We were quick this time as we had to return back according to our initial plan. so we directly stopped 2 KMs before the Changla Pass(~40 KMs from Karu), that time we did not know that the Pass is just 2 KMs ahead :-).
When we were getting closer to the Changla Pass, the temperature was also decreasing with the same speed, so the jackets were on.
Finally the mighty Changla was there, with few tourists, ARMY camp and DRDO centre. There was one restaurant as well, located at a very nice location. We parked our bikes and clicked one pic with the board for the memory. The scenic view of Changla was breath taking, loved the surroundings.
We were short of time, as we were late according to the plan, we moved ahead, this time it was a sharp inclined to go down from Changla. To reach out to Changla we almost drove ~20 KMs in the inclined section but to go down it was only ~5KMs. Thats why it was tough, we reached the bottom after driving for 40 mins because roads were so dangerous and bad. Stopped for a tea break, remembering those few people with some good words who said roads are good :P. Just we started and after 10 KMs the brakes of 4241 was stuck with something. Somehow we fixed it and kept moving.
There a big board nearby ARMY camp, which had "Train Hard Fight Easy", so we had to stop for a click :P.
Another 40 KMs were left, we were through one of the toughest road of the world.
There were few people returning, we asked about the road they it's a charm now. We started again and it was really a good maintained road, loved driving there.
The scenic view was ultimate, made few videos of our driving and clicked few pics as well.
I love dogs and fortunately I got one to spend few minutes with. I was playing with him, meanwhile Praveen clicked few pics for me, these pics are really good.
Now it was time to say good bye to this dog and river which was flowing there and moved ahead to the Pangong Lake. Since our plan to stay at Pangong only so there was no hurry and decision was quite right because we could not drive again passing through Changla Pass, it was so tough that we were tired in just 9 hrs driving.
The roads were good that we covered remaining distance very quickly, and here it was the first view of very famous Pangong Lake (Highest Salt Water Lake of the World).
Blue water shining in the sunlight, here it was the World Famous Pangong lake share by India and China both. There was so many small restaurants name after "3 Idiots" movie like Rancho cafe, Idiots Cafe etc :D. Yes that was the place where all three met in the end of the movie, verbally this place was named as 3 Idiots point :P.
We were excited but wanted a bed as well to rest, since this time there was no previous booking so we had to find out the rooms which we did and finalised one home stay. We did not go anywhere else that evening, just sat in the room and played cards :P while other tourists were busy in roaming.
Kaushik was having some problem in breathing, so I gave camphor to inhale. He also had Dimox and went to bed afterwards, rest four of us was completely okay. We had our dinner which okay okay and slept like anything ;-).
The eight day ended with full day of adventure.
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