Ram wanted to go by walk and see what's blocking the road. So we started walking but after not more than 10 or 20 meter i relaised this is foolishness and i told ram to walk back. Ram took this seriously and agreed with me and we headed towards bike. now Because of mud we were not able to move bike back but somehow after 5 minute we were able to rotate bike 180 degree and we were heading back on the track towards karsog. We were tired hungry but if we would have stopped we couldn't have reached karsog on same day. Point to be noted we had breakfast at around 9:30 in morning and since afternoon we are hungry & riding. Now on this way back to karsog i was on rider seat. I was having only one aim reach karsog before it even get drak [Main reason was we were having very less money to afford food and accomodation]. I started riding bike at 3:30 Ram was riding bike from 8:30 in monring and he was tired enough to not on rider seat. It took me 5 hours to reach karsog and i didn't stopped at any place just to reach karsog ram was asking me to stop to loo. But i just kept asking him to hold on till karsog. Finally we reached karsog at 8:30 and everything was at halt. Very rear shops were open. Some how we we got few person on road to ask about accomodation. While asking the hotel we again fallen down. This time my knee doesn't supported me and i couldn't support bike while it was on halt. I start blaming ram for this fall but i knew this was sole my fault. Anyway ram didn't reacted harsh [Later in hotel i confessed ram that was my fault].
Sooner we reached karsog we withdrawl enough money for the trip and kept that with us. Later we found a costly hotel (according to locals rent was 500/- very nice room but it's costly). There we saw that there is pipe unjoint at one end hanging from bike. Trouble again but we left that on morning task and went for dinner. I purchased few warm clothing which really helped me. We got nice food in hotel and slept nicely.
Next morning 6'0 Clock we started our journey towards manali via sundernagar and kullu. We drove for hours but during this ride we saw very beautiful nature we saw jungle. So many curved roads. We were so in touch with curved roads that when we got straight road we were riding on speed of 30-40 only. Later we realised we can go on some high speed. Around 1 we reached mandi. Which was only 110 Km from Karsog. We had lunch and again started the trip. We encountered very beautiful road ahead very sencenic. Beas River was adding more charm to this road
. There was an 2-3 Km tunnel in between which was also a great pleasure to ride on. While driving we stopped just before kullu to swith the rider. That time ram told me take a look on road sode snow
. Now as ram was on rider seat he started to get bad road and he was not so happy to ride on. But there was no other way. After some 10-15 mintue ram applied a sudden break while i was enojoying the nature without any clue that ram is going make a sudden fall. I just managed to jump before we fall again. Within seconds we managed to get bike on wheels again and riding back on road :). Ram was pissed off by now as few junkyard eligible trucks was fooling around on road. Finally off there this and that we reached to manali. And i tell you ram was back in full "Josh" as he was heading towards rohtang pass. Which didn't said anything but we took stopped to see manali natural beauty
.
Now ram was riding with aim of rohtang pass which i was not in accord but i didn't told him. We saw some really bad roads and this was nearly 4 after noon. i was worried about night stay. Ram was riding with his aim then later saw some really bad road where we were not able to move
. Indian Army was on work to make it clear. some people were in hurry
. But we utilized this time to enjoy the nature
. We headed again on roll. Reached to shilong. This was the real natural beauty which were aiming for. Now this was satisfying this much long journey
. We reached to the place where snow games were going on. People were enjoying the sking and paragliding. Some couple were happy with snow only. anyway worthfull to come this far. Ram were trying to go ahead but locals told there is no way furthur road is blocked due to snow.
We stopped and done the paragliding which earlier ram was not ready to do so. But finally he did.
. Later we made frds with rinkoo the guy who arranged the paragliding for us. He told that we can do skiing in the morning around 8 as we were planning to leave manali in morning. He showed us one beautiful, shortcut (bad road) for manali which was really helpful for bike riders
.
Later came back to manali nearly 6 was on clock. We decided to watch "My name is khan". We had dinner and taken some rest in hotel. At 9 we reached at mall to watch movie. Movie started ok and in interval as expacted on rash thing happened. Some local couple were on seats infront of us. Ram tried to take out his mobile from his jeans pocket and his shoe hit the seat back infront of him. And this lady sitting on that seat got rash. This i tried to make her quiet but things went wrong. Not only wrong way wrong too much. His mate got angry for various reasons (might be for talibans also but i have no clue). Locals also came in support of those couple. Justg because of this i think "chadyaan di joon buri". It's an punjabi saying which means bachelorhood is worst. One uncle grabbed my collar and dragged my out of hall. I was in shock all was happening so fast. Ram was asking everyone to stop it but i was not i mood to avoid the collar drag.
Later somehow uncle who grabbed my collar taken me with him to lower level to watch the movie infact he seated next to us and watched movie along us. He was actually protacting us. from thos locals who were in chance to take some cheap advantage in there city and in eyes of there girls. Later in end of movie uncle again dragged me by holding my hand with him towards his car. Ram also approached me uncle dropped us to our hotel for avoiding the problems which could have happened. Thanks a lot uncle.
Next day in morning ram was not in mood to go for skiing but he got ready some how. We headed towards skiing aread and called rinkoo to be ready there. We reached to shortcut rickoo was already there to help us to reach skiing area. We reached there and done skiing. Nice experience
. Later head back on our long and boring jouney to back to chandigarh. We started around 11 in morning and reached chandigarh at 9:30 in night. After mandi full journey was very boring. but over all total trip was great...
Hmmm..
This time i will be wrtiting about my road trip to Manali. Thanks to RAM to arranging everything from start till end. I reached to the Chandigarh on 17th even and according to the plan we had to leave for shimla. Ram has smsed me that he will be picking me up from tribune chawk. There i had to wait for some 10 minutes with no sign of RAM as he wasn't expacting me so soon. Anyway he came in full formals directly from his office without taking off so he has to go back to office. We headed towards his office. There again i have to wait for few more minutes as he went to make excuse about his absense and off for the day to his leads. Now we were free to go... (oh yes one more thing RAM didn't took leaves formaly for this trip). Now as per RAM's plan we had to leave tomorrow morning but i insisted and made it possible to leave as per plan. And around 5 of clock's we started our journey towards shimla (YES.. shimla !!.) As we wanted to enjoy more so our trip was not directly towards manali. We decided that we will be going to shimla->Kufri->Narkanda->Luhri->Ani->JaloriPass-> Kullu->Manali. (In actual we were forced to change the path :) hehehe)
We filled the fuel and headed towards shilma it was about to take some 3 hours (110 KM) and Ram was riding the bike i was on pillion seat. Sooner then expacted we got sign board pointing SHILMA 90 KM. we got happy atleast we have started. Again after 1 km we got same sign SHILMA 90 KM. After 2 more KM we got SHILMA 90 KM. Friends you will not believe we got more than 4-5 milestones which all were pointing SHILMA 90 KM. After this incident we agree on trusting our bike's trip meter instead of Inidan Govt. After this nothing exciting and unusual happened apart from we were not reaching to Shilma. There were not much milestones and no sign of having shilma near by and bike's trip meter was telling in 1-2 km less in 100 KM. Chilling wind and dipping temp was the biggest hurdle in riding bike. (Ram was wearing thermocoat but poor me was there without any prepration of this chilling weather). My Knee started paining because of low temp. Luckily ram didn't stopped before reaching to shilma. When we reached to shilma suddenly ram stopped and told me he is not going to ride futhur. So now it was my turn to ride on. It was not big deal as we have to just search for the place to stay and then go for dinner. We got the place for 500/- and then we had dinner at one local dhaba as most of the places were closed by 9. After dinner we reached to the place for sleep as we had to start our quest to snow in early morning. I am telling you the truth even in the room it was not warm everything was chilled. Pillows were freezing where you keep your face only that place was warm rest were freezing, but blanket was too good (Ram termed that as Sher-ki-khaal ka blanket). After some time we slept because we were tired.
In morning we started getting fresh get then i realised if you have to get fresh you have to do that with icey water (i termed that ice cubes). Don't get confuse there was warm water but in toilet only icey water was provided. Soon we were on roads heading towards kufri in excitment (in hurry we ignored all the ATMs which was a big mistake in sooner than expacted future). After 21-22 km we were talking that in shilma people told in kufri we will surely get snow but still we havn't seen snow. Suddenly ram told just watch on side of road there was snow with mix of dust we got excited and as soon as we took next turn we got a great view and the snow
. But i tell you we were expacting more so we planned to go on.. and nearly immediatly we left kufri. Through Thiog we headed towards NarKanda ( actully ram was [mis]informed that in theog someone was seen snow). These roads i tell you were among some of the best roads i seen beauty viz. In Theog we got snow again
. This was better than Kufri but still we needed something more. We headed towards JalohariPass. As we start this time i was riding the bike and immediatly we got BLACK ICE. Yeap friends BLACK ICE. this one is the scariest thing i got encounter on my road trips.
This is the thing most of the ram's frds bewared him. They told to drive on black ice is not a joke. Because it's difficult to control bike on slope with curves and over that black ice make it almost impossible to avoid skitting. On first patch of BLACK ICE we were saved by god as speed was a bit more. But just few meters ahead when i was explaining ram what had happened and he told this was BLACK ICE. I lost focus and when i regain the focus we were lying on the road rubbing ourself. Luckily we were on hill side not on valley side (scary huh). Within 5 minuted we were back on the bike heading towards jaloahri pass. When we reahced next village we stopped to check if there sumthing wrong with bike or everything is just fine. I thought of utilizing this time by asking the road for next stop. People were taking sips of tea at near by road block. We headed there and started asking about next stop. There was a strange fellow among them he was an daily traveler from chandigarh to senz. This was not only irritating he was also not aware how to talk to strangers. This guy told some wierd thing which is pointless to write here. Moral of mentioning him is someone discourages us to move on towards destination very badly.
Anyway we left the Theog and headed towards narkanda. There we got more snow but still this was not we were travelling for. We kept on and on. That strange guy followed us and in between he start talking to us again some 15 mintues he given advise us to take the root for Luhri to karsog but as par plan we have to head towards jalohari pass. which was oposite route. In Luhri we stopped near satluz
. We spent some 10-15 minute here. Then we decided to go for Jalohri via Ani. This road were to scary and dengerous that i will not advise anyone to go on that road. We kept movign as it was 1 in noon and we doesn't has much time to cross jalohri pass if that's open otherwise we need to take alternate route via karsog (which was advised by irritating uncle). We crossed Ani there people told that pass is closed due to snow but ram was in mood to see that closed road. Now i was not at all convienced with that view of ram but didn't said anything to maintain his enthusiasm. At last we reached to the place from where we can't go furthur
