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  • One man goes trekking
  • One man goes on a bus
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The turnoff to the Darcha Padum road. You have to keep a keen eye out for it, because you will have just passed a traffic choke point at Jispa bridge and will be in the mood to speed up
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Bawa is all set! Are you coming or not? 
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This is going to be one awesome road once completed
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This powerful river has cut itself a deep gorge in these igneous rocks. A lot of the Himalayas are sedimentary rocks - basically dried mud - but you have pockets of hard rocks here and there, and you get spectacular canyons
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What water! What beauty! 
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Where every prospect pleases 
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A lot of locals come to pray here
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They had come in this SUV
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The nice tarmac road ends here BTW
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Care to ride on these rocks? 
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Nah...I am kidding...this is a river bed, and there is a bridge over it. 
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This is the road
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Miles and miles of this road. More of a 'path' than a road. 
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We are approaching the big boys. You don't want to be flippant around these mountains
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WE HAVE DONE IT!!
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WE HAVE REACHED SHINGO LA...or Shinku La...
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What a ride it was! Oof
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Veni Vidi Vici
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It's simply amazing
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There is a high altitude lake at the pass.
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And no marks of civilisation apart from the prayer flags
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My ProTrek shows the height as 4850 meters, but the claimed height is 5064 meters. I am not in the least saying that my little watch is more accurate than the BRO reading. Either way, it is very high indeed
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We build a cairn in tribute to the god of the pass, and promise to return some day
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And now its time to go back. Much harder to go down than come up on these gravel roads
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Bawa is in love! What roads! 
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The bad roads are great, but great roads are great too. You can look around and enjoy the scenery instead of just grimly trying to stay alive
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I was so sad to get off this road and get back on the Manali Leh highway! 
manali - trilokinath - keylong
jispa to leh
check out the book
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