Day 3: 2nd July 2007

After breakfast we headed to pick up out bikes. From there we headed to Deputy magistrate office to get permissions. Voila !!! All set for our Kargil Roadtrip. Then, headed back to guest house,tied our luggages to Eliminator. Then, headed to fill petrol. Here we go, Road Trip to Kargil.
These roads are very well maintained by Border Roads Organisation (BRO). This road is the road connecting Leh and Srinagar. Our first stop was at Indus View point, not very far from Leh town. From here on, we stopped quite often to click snaps.
These roads are quite scary sometimes. You won’t get to see anyone as far as your eyes can reach. Gets you a feeling that you are the only one on earth. U feel as if u own this world. Well, we stopped at Nimmu for lunch. It was bad. Next was the cute and small Saspol Village. Here children were spreading hands out, not for asking lift, for a tap. They enjoyed that and yes, we too. After about 3Kms from this village, there is a deviation towards a Monastery(Only monastery on flat ground, all other you have to climb up). Raj was waiting for me here. It’s a small monastery. Main temple was closed. The one next to it was open, had to use torch to look into wonderful paintings inside. Also there were few Germans sitting and reading a book. I asked monk what are they doing and what do they do here. He told me that they study Buddhism and they know more than us. Also learnt that they are here for restoration of monasteries and they work for some NGO.. Impressive !!!
We continued our journey further. We had to pass Norla and Khalsi. After Khalsi, u will be riding along the lines of Indus giving u company for quite long. We even saw a group of people getting instructions before they started the Rafting.
Well, as we were nearing Lamayaru, there was a strange formation of land. Sometimes it looked like carvings. Later learnt that it was huge lake which is dried now. Its called MoonLand by locals. Reached lamayaru, couldn’t get a room in “Niranjan” which is right next to Monastery. Then went down to “MoonLand Guest house”. He charged us exorbitant rs.500.Was tired, had dinner and went straight to bed. Well ya, the village is about 20 to 30 huts. Electricity to whole village is from 8 to 11 in the night that too from a Diesel generator. Uh..