Journey From Nubra to Pangong

On the way to Pangong

Going on a trip like this, I believe that journey is the best part because the journey is even more beautiful and scenic than the destinations,

again we were on the road on our two bikes going each step into the oblivion, again we were surrounded by the big mighty mountains, some were reddish in color, some yellow, some black, some blue even, some green and some were white totally covered with ice.

I don't understand the weather here, at some places it was freezing cold and at some places there was sunlight but I was enjoying every little bit of the experience I was having, I can't pull my camera out riding the bike at the same time, I wished I could capture every single detail of this place. I was living it.

On the way food stall

Riding for about continuous 3 hours, we thought of taking a 5 minutes break and eat something, usually you don't find any restaurant or anything like that on the hills but luckily we found one, it was a very small stall with very few food items, so we ordered three noodles and three cup of tea. There we meet a Himalayan dod breed chibacca,

this was the name give by me to that dog, he was the Himalayan version of chehuahua, lol.
There we meet two other travelers coming back from pangong, they told us that the way to Pangong is fully covered with ice and it's very dangerous so be careful. We all got scared but thrilled at the same time.

The ice covered road

When we were 30 KM away from pangong, the road became narrower, it became one way, if another motor is coming from the opposite direction than you have to wait on the side of the road to let it pass through.

The road was fully covered in ice so we had to maintain a speed of 20Km/hr.

As we proceed towards our dream destination, both the temperature and the oxygen level start to drop by huge margin. From a distance we saw a glimpse of Pangong lake at the horizon and that pumped some sort of adrenaline in our blood and we didn't care about the road or breathing issues due to low oxygen level, we pulled out bikes throttle and there was only one thing going in our minds to reach there as soon as possible and finally after one our we reached there,

at the height of 17000 ft, the beautiful Pangong Lake.

The tent camps

When we reached at the pangong lake, our tent camps were already pre-booked, we immediately parked our bikes

and enquired our tent camps from the manager, we had two medium size tents booked for us. We rested there in our tents for sometime and than went straight to the lake it was just 2 minutes distance from our tent camp.

The pangong Lake

It was a beautiful view looking at the mesmerizing clear water,

I haven't seen too many pure shades in the water before all at one place, the water color was clear transparent at the shore, than aqua, than skyblue than royal blue, than ink blue than violet. It was truly a beautiful view and experience,

I stepped a foot inside the lake and the water was freezing cold, it was around -5°C temperature at that time. But all in all it was a beautiful experience. We did a little photography there meant to capture all in my memory forever.

Back to the hotel in Leh

In the evening we again headed back to our hotel pre-booked in Leh,

it was the same hotel we started from, we stayed there for that night and the very next morning our cab came and drop us on the Leh international airport and from there we took our flight to New Delhi. But this was truly a beautiful experience and till the time I am writing this, I can't do anything but memorize that how beautiful some places can be that we haven't seen yet in our own world.