211.JPG	Taking a break on the way to Leh
212.JPG	Zanskar meeting the Indus
213.JPG	Confluence of Zanskar and Indus Rivers
214.JPG	Magnetic Hill
215.JPG	History of Paththar Saheb Gurudwara
216.JPG	Same thing
217.JPG	The boulder having an imrint of Guru Nanak
218.JPG	The Demon's foot imprint
219.JPG	The road to Leh
220.JPG	Shey Palace, Leh
221.JPG	Thiksey Gompa, Leh
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224.JPG	Thiksey Gompa
225.JPG	The Wheel of Life at Thiksey Gompa
226.JPG	Prayer wheels at Thiksey
227.JPG	Young Lamas at Thiksey
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230.JPG	Sunset from Thiksey
231.JPG	A Chorten at Thiksey
232.JPG	Sunset at Thiksey
233.JPG	Sunset in Leh on the way back from Thiksey
234.JPG	The snake like road to Khardung La
235.JPG	En route Khardung La
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237.JPG	Almost there
238.JPG	Almost
239.JPG	At Khardung La. The highest motorable road in the World
240.JPG	The Wanderlust MC Patch
241.JPG	Crossing over from Khardung La towards North Pullu and Nubra Valley
242.JPG	Ok, so o posed with the snow, and that it wet my pants from behind... it was quite a cold assed ride for sometime after that
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244.JPG	Nubra Valley
245.JPG	Fisrt sight of the Shyok River
246.JPG	Crossing the Nubra desert in a sandstorm, just before Diskit
247.JPG	The sand dunes of Hunder, Nubra Valley
248.JPG	A Bactrian Camel's mugshot
249.JPG	A Double humped Bactrian Camel. But this old timers' 2 humps were sagging like a couple of "you know what's"... so were covered up. His mates were out in the desert giving tourists a ride
250.JPG	Bike, Camel, babe... Which one would you like to ride?
251.JPG	My bike at the Sand Dunes, Hunder
252.JPG	Aaahhhh!!! Nothing like lying down on the sand after a hard day's ride. If only I had a beer right now
253.JPG	A river crossing in Hunder
254.JPG	Tourists on the Dunes
255.JPG	Arpan takes a dive
256.JPG	My bike standing up on it's own.... "look ma, no stands"
257.JPG	Dunno what I was thinking, but i certainly stink at posing
258.JPG	Dawn in Nubra valley
259.JPG	Sunrise on the Confluence of Shyok and Nubra Rivers
260.JPG	The Nubra River
261.JPG	Cute and happy little ones in Panamik, the base camp for Siachin Glacier. Last place where Civilians are allowed. From here one can get a glimpse of the Mighty Karakorum mountain range looming large in the distance on the horizon
262.JPG	The Shyok River raging it's way through the Nubra valley.
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264.JPG	Crossed Khardung La again on the way back from Nubra Valley
265.JPG	Traffic Jam at 18000 Feet due to a landslide near Khardung La
266.JPG	Juma. The wizard technician/mechanic for Bullets in Leh
267.JPG	Partying with the Road Survivors in Leh
268.JPG	Me and Dushi, Leh
269.JPG	At Chang La. Third highest pass in the World
270.JPG	Chang La
271.JPG	The four of us with the famous Army Jawan with the big moustache, posted at Chang La
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273.JPG	First View of Pangong Tso
274.JPG	Moi at Pangong Tso
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276.JPG	Shades of Blue in Pangong Tso
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280.JPG	Setting up tents at Spangmik, Pangong Tso
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283.JPG	Dusk at Pangong Tso
284.JPG	Partying with Mr. Naresh modi and friends at Spangmik on the banks of Pangong Tso!!! One of the best nights full of friends, fellow travelers and Music Lovers we had on this tour!!!
285.JPG	First rays of the new rising Sun at Pangong Tso
286.JPG	Roy a.k.a. Cougar in his tent
287.JPG	Just one of the many, many water crossings we dealt with on these kinds of roads. They were quite fun after a while
288.JPG	The Four Riders. Roy, Arpan, Rahul and I
289.JPG	Riding alongside Pangong Tso for about 23 Kms on the way to Chushul
290.JPG	One of the many mistakes or wrong turn Rahul made on this tour. Here, he dived into the wet sand without thinking and got stuck in it
291.JPG	That sinking feeling. Rahul's bike stuck in the wet sands on the banks of Pangong Tso. Took us all about an hour and a half to figure a way to get the bike across and find an alternate track to get across
292.JPG	On the way to Chushul
293.JPG	Hmmmmm!!! So What do I wanna eat today? Parathas, Chowmien or Thukpa??? My bike at the crossroads in Chushul. I settled for Maggi noodles for dinner that night
294.JPG	Cougar gets across a River before Chhaga/Tsaka Village
295.jpg	Chhaga La/Tsaka La 
296.JPG	Little girl at Chhaga village
297.JPG	Having Maggi noodles and tea at a family's home in Chhaga Village
298.JPG	The wonderful Nubroo Family of Chhaga Village who treated us to a lunch in their home that day
299.JPG	Sunset on the Indus river the way to Nyoma Rap
300.JPG	Sunset on the way to Nyoma
301.JPG	Rahul stirring our meal at the PWD guest house in Nyoma
302.JPG	The caretaker of the PWD Guest house [Nyoma] poses on my bike
303.JPG	The Indus flowing near Rongo in the Chang Thang Plateau
304.JPG	The Chang Thang desert on the way to the Hanle Basin
305.JPG	6 Hours of no roads, no tracks, no sign of vegetation. Just High altitude desert sands to ride through
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307.JPG	A Himalayan Wild Ass [Kiang] in the Chang Thang desert
308.JPG	A Himalayan Wild ass looks at the Punjabi Wild Ass that's taking his picture
309.JPG	Rahul and Cougar pushing up their bikes up the sand dunes of the Chang Thang desert
310.JPG	Arpan takes a detour and rides his bike up the sandy slope
311.JPG	Break time. Is there a pub here where I can get some draught beer???
312.JPG	People getting to work with their camersa. Chang Thang desert
313.JPG	My Bike
314.JPG	Rahul and My Bike
315.JPG	Me and My Bike
316.JPG	Solitude. After four hours of riding throug the desert it struck us that there might be a track somewhere closeby. Rahul scans the horizon for it
317.JPG	The Red Hill
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319.JPG	Cougar and Rahul riding through the desert. I clicked this picture while still riding alongside them, holding the camera in my left hand while keeping the bike steady and revving with my right
320.JPG	The Hanle Palace
321.JPG	Nikhil and Rahul share road stories at the hanle observatory guest house
322.JPG	Dusk at Hanle
323.JPG	Party at dinnertime at Hanle. They had a guitar, we had the booze. Party on
324.JPG	Moi
325.JPG	Ohhh noooooooo!!!!! What have we done??? Cougar and Rahul in bed
326.JPG	The Telescope at Hanle Observatory
327.JPG	Telescope
328.JPG	Moi with the telescope
329.JPG	Hanle Observatory. Highest Observatory in the World
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331.JPG	Young Ladakhi women in all their finery during a festival in Nyoma
332.JPG	Old woman in Nyoma
333.jpg	Me sharing a light moment with the little girl at the shop in Nyoma
334.JPG	Road to Tso Moriri
335.JPG	First glimpse of Tso Moriri
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337.JPG	Tso Moriri
338.JPG	Tso Moriri
339.JPG	The last night the four of us were on the tour together. At Nomadic Life Camps in Korzok. Tso Moriri
340.JPG	Arpan, me and Rahul in our tent in Korzok
341.JPG	Rahul
342.JPG	Tso Kar
343.JPG	Ghost town near More plains
344.JPG	The majestic Valley before Pang
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347.JPG	21 Gata Loops
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351.JPG	The crazy Baralacha La
352.JPG	At the Ibex restaurant in Jispa
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354.JPG	Crossing Rohtang La in freezing rains and near zero visibility coz of clouds
355.JPG	After Rohtang La
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359.JPG	After the dry Ladakhi landscape, the lush greenery of Himachal Pradesh literally comes as a shock and takes time getting used to
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364.JPG	Traffic jam in a slush of mud after Marhi
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367.JPG	Crossing the raging waters of the Beas River over from Manali to Kullu
001.JPG	In Delhi with Ash22g and Aman22g
002.JPG	With Ash22g, Aman, Bawa and Gadget baba in Delhi
003.JPG	At a restaurant in Chandigarh with the Road Survivors
004.JPG	Nav
005.JPG	The RS Gang
006.JPG	Me, Dushi and Jojo
007.JPG	With the gang in Chandigarh
008.JPG	Darkness at the break of noon. This was Chandigarh that day at 11AM
009.JPG	Another pic
010.JPG	Another one
011.JPG	Yet another one
012.JPG	Kasauli hills seen from Chandigarh
013.JPG	At the RS meet
014.JPG	With the RS gang at the meet in Chandigarh
015.JPG	Fish in Mansar Lake, Jammu
016.JPG	Turtles in Mansar lake, Jammu
017.JPG	Rahul at Mansar lake
018.JPG	On the way to Patnitop
019.JPG	Patnitop
020.JPG	The road and the River Ravi
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022.JPG	First view of Kashmir Valley right after Jawahar Tunnel
023.JPG	Another view
024.JPG	Another one
025.JPG	Moi
026.JPG	En route to Srinagar
027.JPG	Dal Lake, Srinagar
028.JPG	Dal Lake
029.JPG	En route to Sonmarg
030.JPG	Sonmarg
031.JPG	On the way to Drass
032.JPG	The road to Zoji La, the toughest time i had in climbing on this tour
033.JPG	Zoji La
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035.JPG	Zoji La
036.JPG	A nomadic Bakrawal on Zoji La
037.JPG	With the Jawans on Zoji La
038.JPG	Enter project Himank
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042.JPG	Drass Valley
043.JPG	Drass River
044.JPG	Confluence of two Rivers
045.JPG	At the gas station in Kargil. Last filling station on the way to Zanskar
046.JPG	Road to Rangdum
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050.JPG	At peace with the Soul of the Universe. In Sankoo, Suru Valley on the way to Zanskar
051.JPG	Rahul in Sankoo
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056.JPG	My bike all loaded up. It's a long journey ahead
057.JPG	The Nun and Kun mountains in Suru Valley. Both are exactly 7000 Mts. high
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069.JPG	First night Camping at Rangdum
070.JPG	Rahul checking the tent
071.JPG	Doctor Prakash and Capt. Devender at Rangdum's village festival
072.JPG	The Villagers at the Rangdum festival with their Chhang [Wine made of Rice and Barley]
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075.JPG	Day two at Rangdum. The freezing cold delayed us here by a day and we couldn't start for Padum coz of bad weather
076.JPG	Second night camping at Rangdum. This is me trying to get some sleep in my tent and sleeping bag while it snows outside
077.JPG	Day three morning in Rangdum. It stopped raining and started to Snow. We finally decided to brave the odds and try Penzi La and enter the Zanskar Valley
078.JPG	Fortune favours the brave. This is me atop Penzi La[14000 Feet], the highest point between Kargil and Padum. We crossed the high pass in heavy snow. Note the plastic bags on boots to keep the frigid river crossing waters out
079.JPG	The mighty and beautiful Drang Drung Glacier just after Penzi La. The glacier that looks like an Icy highway is actually the source of the Stod River
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081.JPG	Drang Drung Glacier again
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087.JPG	Enter Zanskar Valley
088.JPG	The Plains road to Padum. It took us about 10 hours to do 110 Kms
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090.JPG	The last few Kms before Padum
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092.JPG	At the Guest house in Padum
093.JPG	My machine. Notice the wet boots on the left side carrier hung out to dry
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095.JPG	The Ibex Special Thukpa, Padum
096.JPG	Rahul and Bjarne [a trekker we met in Padum] at the Ibex restaurant, Padum
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099.JPG	Am I lookeeng issmart???
100.JPG	The army welding team working on fixing my carriers and stays [which were collectively broken in 15 different places] in Padum
101.JPG	Kuttey ka pilla
102.JPG	Chinki puppy in Padum
103.JPG	En route to Karsha Gompa, Padum
104.JPG	Karsha Gompa, distant view
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106.JPG	Karsha Gompa
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108.JPG	Rahul overlooks the valley from Karsha monastry
109.JPG	Moi at Karsha
110.JPG	Young Lama at Karsha
111.JPG	Lama's coming out after a prayer meet in Karsha
112.JPG	Lamas
113.JPG	Wall paintings at the gompa
114.JPG	A Monk leads us into the Gompa
115.JPG	Inside Karsha
116.JPG	Inside Karsha
117.JPG	Alokiteshwara Buddha [gazing down Lord] encompasses the compassion of all the Buddha's and is regarded as the guardian of the Country. The Dalai Lama and the Karampa are considered living manifestations of Alokiteshwara
118.JPG	Wall paintings of the Buddha in Karsha
119.JPG	Inside the Gompa
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121.JPG	Me having conversations with the Lamas, notingdown facts and details about the Karsha Gompa.It's a Maitreya Buddha Gompa, is about 953 years old and currently houses 111 Lamas in the Monastry
122.JPG	The road to and from Karsha Gompa
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125.JPG	On the way to Zangla, ahead of Padum in Zanskar
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129.JPG	The mighty Zanskar River
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132.JPG	The Zangla palace, home to the erstwhile King of Zanskar
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134.JPG	Way to Zangla Nunnery School
135.JPG	Angmo, a Chomu [nun/female Lama] at the Zangla Nunnery School
136.JPG	Inside the Zangla Gompa
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139.JPG	An old Chomu at Zangla Nunnery School
140.JPG	A Thangka. Thangka's are Spiritual paintings depicting scenes from the Buddha's life
141.JPG	Rahul taking down notes at the Zangla nunnery
142.JPG	View from the nunnery
143.JPG	A Chorten[stupa] silhoutted against the sky at Zangla nunnery
144.JPG	On the way to Zangla palace
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149.JPG	The "motorable" track ends here and it' a trekking trail from here on. One of the last places in Zanskar where vehicles can tread
150.JPG	A small temple buolt in the place where the previous Dalai Lama's brother was born
151.JPG	The Zangla Palace slhouette
152.JPG	Trekking up to the Palace
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154.JPG	Zangla Palace
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157.JPG	Chortens and Prayer flag at Zangla Palace
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160.JPG	Moi
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162.JPG	Trekking down from the Palace
163.JPG	A Chomu
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166.JPG	Drang Drung again, on the way back from Zanskar
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168.JPG	A small lake near Penzi La
169.JPG	"Hey buddy, which way to New york??" Rahul tells directions to bkers we met on the way back from Zanskar
170.JPG	The Rangdum Gompa
171.JPG	Rangdum Gompa
172.JPG	Our bikes parked outside Rangdum Monastry
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174.JPG	Enter the Gompa
175.JPG	Yak butter tea with the Lamas at Rangdum Gompa. Its an acquired taste, and if you dont acquire it by your thrid try, it's best avoided
176.JPG	Lamas at Rangdum Gompa
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179.JPG	Thangka at Rangdum Gompa
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181.JPG	Inside Rangdum Gompa
182.JPG	View from the Rangdum Gompa
183.JPG	A Marmot. These shy little creatures found in the region outnumber humans at the ratio of 1:1000
184.JPG	Rahul and I with Capt. Devender at Rangdum Military base
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188.JPG	A river flowing, carving it's way into a Glacier
189.JPG	Little darling angel Nargis. Peace, purity and innocence personified. In Sankoo.
190.JPG	My bike being worked on in Kargil. This is where Rahul and I met up and joined forces with cougar and Arpan for most of the rest of the tour
191.JPG	Wall paintings in Mulbek
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193.JPG	The Chamba Statue in Mulbek
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196.JPG	Kargil-Leh road
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200.JPG	Namika La
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203.JPG	Fotu La. Highest point on the Srinagar-Leh road
204.JPG	Gata loops before Lamayuru
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206.JPG	Lamayuru Gompa
207.JPG	At a restaurant in Lamayuru
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209.JPG	The Mighty Indus River
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