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Being early to bed last night, got up early and took my time clicking around the guest house. Hunder then Panamic is the itinerary for the day. There is cyber cafe in the town but either its closed of no one there to man it! Ride out of town and i see that Hunder is just 7 kms! That should be quick. I no time i am seeing sand on the road and soon there are sand dunes to my right. Its the high altitude desert. Kinda not really to the scale of a desert. Its all pale grayish brown sand. Different from Rajasthan. I ride ahead a bit. Weather changes here quickly and there is a sand storm to my right and luckily not near the road side of the valley. There are dark clouds above, starts raining and wind is heavy. I kinda turn around and ride out the rain cloud. Its all calm near the dunes so spend some time there.
Ride back to Diskit for food. The cyber cafe is still not open! With lot of time in the day ride lazily towards the Nubra fork and towards Surmoor and panamic. Panamic is just 35 kms and its just 1.30 pm. Kinda too early for panamic but too late to head back to Leh or where ever. So take it real slow. A few kms in i see a cyclist and we stop for a chat. He Sebastian from Switzerland and what do you know he rode all the way from there to here. Taking a year, 2 months to do 18577 kms, the reading on his sigma. Pretty much self sufficiant and camps too. Man how do these ppl do such things! Bid byes and continue. For quite some time ride just parallel to the Diskit road. Just that i am on the other side of the valley across the river! After some more riding the valley forks and there goes Diskit behind the mountain range. This side is more greener and where ever its dry sandy and stones there are this plants with purple flowers adding real color to the scene.
Cross surmoor thinking would stay in some guest house at Panamic. Out of surmoor and its back to open areas as the valley widens. Nothing much to write about but that it was beautiful and nice roads so just road lazily looking around. Reached panamic by 4 pm and not many guest houses to be seen. I ride ahead after the town and even pass the next town Hamgro or something. Since it was evening bettor not get stranded in restricted area so i ride back. Did find one guest house at Panamic but no one there manning the hotel! So i decided to head back to Surmoom any way for stay and there is mobile connectivity in surmoor as well. So i do the lazy ride back including a long break at a open space in between. In Surmoor by 5 pm and checking into a very neat A.O.Guest house and just lazed the evening over a few phone calls and called up Yogesh for further consultation. Uncertain of what i will do tomm. The fuels cans are emptied into the tank with just half ltr left in each of the cans. Lets see tomm.
Ride back to Diskit for food. The cyber cafe is still not open! With lot of time in the day ride lazily towards the Nubra fork and towards Surmoor and panamic. Panamic is just 35 kms and its just 1.30 pm. Kinda too early for panamic but too late to head back to Leh or where ever. So take it real slow. A few kms in i see a cyclist and we stop for a chat. He Sebastian from Switzerland and what do you know he rode all the way from there to here. Taking a year, 2 months to do 18577 kms, the reading on his sigma. Pretty much self sufficiant and camps too. Man how do these ppl do such things! Bid byes and continue. For quite some time ride just parallel to the Diskit road. Just that i am on the other side of the valley across the river! After some more riding the valley forks and there goes Diskit behind the mountain range. This side is more greener and where ever its dry sandy and stones there are this plants with purple flowers adding real color to the scene.
Cross surmoor thinking would stay in some guest house at Panamic. Out of surmoor and its back to open areas as the valley widens. Nothing much to write about but that it was beautiful and nice roads so just road lazily looking around. Reached panamic by 4 pm and not many guest houses to be seen. I ride ahead after the town and even pass the next town Hamgro or something. Since it was evening bettor not get stranded in restricted area so i ride back. Did find one guest house at Panamic but no one there manning the hotel! So i decided to head back to Surmoom any way for stay and there is mobile connectivity in surmoor as well. So i do the lazy ride back including a long break at a open space in between. In Surmoor by 5 pm and checking into a very neat A.O.Guest house and just lazed the evening over a few phone calls and called up Yogesh for further consultation. Uncertain of what i will do tomm. The fuels cans are emptied into the tank with just half ltr left in each of the cans. Lets see tomm.
Bike at the Sand dune Guest house at Diskit.
Flowers at the guest house...
Not bad for 300 bux ehh?
Riding towards Hunder...
Wondered where all the loose stones come from when its solid rock above...
Its sand on the road...
The sand dunes of Hunder....
Ride a bit ahead..
There is a dust storm going on...
Looking at the end of the valley....
Its dry and beautiful...
The storm kicking up....
Now i turn back, looks good on the way back but dark clouds above and started raining and wind was making its presence felt...
Back to hunder...
Some walk on the sand...
Bike there...
After snow, now on sand...
Riding back towards the Nobra fork...
The riverbed road below...
Its a lot of sand either side...
Sebastian from Switzerland.... Has been riding since an year and 2 months all the way from Swiss to here and had done like 18577 KMs till he met me. How do people do such things?!!
Towards Surmoor...
While i was trying to click the strange things kept to dry on roof top, i heard a kid shout and only later realized he was in the frame posing!
Dried thorn bushes used a compound...
Greens out of no where...
These purple colored shrubs adds quite a contrast to the dry place...
But i dont drink beer!
The road towards panamic...
Never seen black donkeys!
A BSF memorial....
Now somebody is standing guard!
Riding back towards Surmoor...
A prasar bharathi tower....
One more nice isolated break...
Typical... :D
Quite a number of prayer wheels...
It got windy in the evening but i had checked into a guest house at Surmoor by then...
Nice place to chill out....
Vertical travel for the day...
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