Day-6 - We all knew its time to go back from where we had started our journey, we all were tired but somehow managed to depart early in the morning from kargil, it was a very chilly morning. the hand gloves we were wearing hardly managed to block the chilly air from entering inside and the opening from the front of the helmets made our lips to shiver and they went dry. We decided to halt at some place for our tea but couldn't find any tea shop. We were left with no other option other than to move on we kept on moving and reached kargil war memorial. The war memorial is made beneath the TOLOLING mountains which was an important top during the kargil war.
Till the time we visited the complete war memorial and felt proud for all the fighters and martyrs of the kargil war it was around 9:00 am and the sun was up enough in the sky and the weather went pleasant for a good drive. Without wasting enough time we started our journey and reached the deadliest zojila pass by 11:30 am. We reached there in a fair amount of time and once again felt a little bit of pressure to cross that pass. As usual it was a traffic jam kind of a situation at the pass and all the four vehicles and trucks were piled up waiting for there turn to move ahead, We managed to pass through the gaps available and went ahead slowly slowly, there was a rain fall early in the morning and all the terrain was wet and muddy. I was on avenger which had only front disc brakes working, and because of which i had a fall on that muddy patch . I the moment i applied brakes I was lying on the mud and the bike lying on me.
This above pic of me was taken just after my fall.
Then i changed my bike with bullet and we crossed the zojila pass. It was a feeling of winning a war.
We came down till sonmarg and had our lunch. This time we were ahead of our time. After having lunch at sonmarg, we headed towards srinagar, We were 50 kms short of srinagar and one bullet stopped due to an empty fuel tank. I decided to bring in some fuel from the next petrol pump which was aound 10 kms ahead,after covering 8 kms my bike also halted due to the same reason, I was totally disconnected from my friends as i was having a vodafone sim which was not working over there. A local guy came up to my rescue he allowed me to make a call from his cell phone and after waiting for 1 hr i was able to communicate them, the good news was they got some fuel from one of the near by homes where they were waiting, and now i was waiting for them to come and bring some fuel for me. They arrived and took the cans from me and bought some fuel for my bike. Phheww.... After all these hiccups we reached srinagar by 5:15 pm, One of our friend departed to meet his family and now we four members were left. We had a word Mr Bashir from where we had taken our bikes on rent that we will be coming by 6:30 pm to return the bikes. After getting freshened up we went to his shop handed over his bikes and left for the famous DAL LAKE. The shikara ride is one the best experience of the kashmir , in the midst of that lake you will find boats selling tea,coffee, kahawa(famous kashmiri drink) and pakodas. Then you will find floating market where you can buy souvenirs and other local stuff of kashmir froms shawls to kahawa powder. It was 7:30 in the evening and we went to get our dinners packed. If you are in kashmir do try the LAL-MASS a very famous non-veg cuisine of kashmir.
We came back to our room and were thinking of the days we had spent here, tomorrow morning we had our taxi booked for taking all of us to jammu.
Day-6 - The taxi was waiting downstairs and with a heavy heart we all had to move on, one more friend had a plan to leave us at jammu for visiting to Vaishno devi and we were left only three guys to board the train from jammu. The entire journey back to jammu was not that enjoyable as we were leaving behind that place where we had spent almost a week far away from the busy life, that thought made us felt sad. By 4:00 pm we reached jammu station and waited for our train to arrive. Our train departed at 5:30 from jammu station and we reached Delhi somewhere around 4 in the morning.
We all knew the amazing trip had come to an end and from the next day we will be joining our daily lives back, the same routine, same office ,same place.
This was the end of our trip to Leh-Ladakh, Hope all the readers have enjoyed reading it. Waiting for your comments and suggestions.
DO READ MY BLOG ON MY TRIP FROM NOIDA TO RAJKOT.
Coming soon.
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