day 4 contd2 - bharathpur - Sarchu - Gata Loops - lalchungla - nakeela - Pang

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I was feeling a bit tired to drive. This time Sunil drove in the front. Followed by me, Chetan and Sumit. The way we found Mountains of different shades and shapes, but looked Orange, Some are Purple, some yellow, some where Black with red shades and the plains we were traveling were Green and a valley below us had the streams.. WOW! Wat a view










Arrow Straight Roads At an altitude of 14000 Feet










With all these stops, I was lagging behind. Soon I saw Sunil lying down, thought he is enjoying the nature and moved forward. Then saw Chetan and Sumit stopped at a road side. Chetan vomiting. :( After a couple of minutes Chetan was ok and persuaded to move. hats off to his courage. I and Sumit refilled the Full, Sunil did his second refilling of the trip. His comet was very thirsty. There too I ran to catch the polythene cover that we had used to cover the fuel can. After coming back. My head too ached a bit. Gulped some water and ache eased but I felt tiredness !! Sunil suggested to stay at Sarchu but the driver said that this place will become cold in the nights and is bit higher. It could be safe to reach pang. That means we need to cross gata loops, nakeela and lalchungla and then cross a big stream and then rest for the night ! Looked like Herculean task but we moved further.
Meann while I tried to take a snap that has all the colors in it.. hmm again I dont ve a SLR so no wide angle fundas



We then rode in a slitted group, Sunil and Chetan in the front. Me and Sumit following and Jeep behind everyone. We then reached the top of that mountain range, then crossed a steel bridge and then rode on the other side towards gata Loops. There we saw Chetan and Sunil standing on the road side with a Foreigner on this bullet. He had a fall due to some gravels on the road. Ya he was fine enough to ride along.



I and Sumit climbed the gata loops ! No this time I didnt take any short cuts. I played safe !

The gata loops were very smooth and had some nice roads, though narrow, we were riding in the evening which means no commercial truck will be in opposite direction, as they wont leave pang as they cant reach Sarchu.
We then meet a Huge Army convoy!! We parked our bikes in a turn and rested and let the trucks move.
Try counting the trucks


We were soon reaching the top of lanchungla. I stopped to take a pic but others were too tierd to stop even.


we then descended down between lalChungla and Nakeela and almost everyone was dead tired. We cursed each Km we passed. Chetan vomited again.! Learnt that The Foreigner name is Jesse. He told us that he were brave enough to make the trip without Anit-AMS tablets. It was the first time man hearing about such medicines. He suggested Diamox, there are to be taken 24 hrs before we start the acute climb and then every day morning until we feel good about ourselves. he hda one spare tablet and said he can lend it to Chetan. We had to push and Chetan was ready. He didn't waste any time, as he might ve felt that every second spent will just worsen things. We crossed Nakeela. No this time even I didnt stop for a pic. and then descended down. The scenery was too good. Its all looked like the entire mountain was eroded by wind. Just like Huge Huge sand dunes. No even the Grand Canyon is not a match for this beauty.

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