LEH. 23 TO 27th August 2025

Have been held up here due to the rain and snow in the mountains and passes. So have just hung out in the room most the time and ventured out for food and beer. Finally  today Wednesday 27th the rain has stopped.
Was without internet for about 22 hours and the ATM'S  are not working today and there have been no flights in or out of here for four days. Some motorcycle tours had to abandon their bikes on the pass due to the snow. We were so lucky to not have stayed at Morriri Lake and come back to Leh when we did. 

   The bull comes every morning for breakfst to the coffee  shop.

   Finally on the the fourth day the rains let up and we're able to walk around looking for ATM's with money ,but no luck. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

SHIMLA 11 AUGUST 130kms.

Image
Was a long slow wet day to Shimla which is at about 2000 metres. It took us about six and a half hours to do 130 kms virtually  all in the rain, the road was mostly one lane up the mountains and twisty all the way, but not nice twisty. Finally  got to Shimla and got a room and went were soaked and my passport was soaked, had it in my ''waterproof " suite and now is ruined. Busy drying  out my gear now but the forecast doesn't look good for the next few days, so will decide in the morning where to go, if anywhere.     View from my window. 
Read more

NEW DELHI 9 AUGUST 2025

Image
Had a 6 hour flight to Addis then anothe 6 hours to New Delhi arriving at 8:30am. Got a taxi to hotel which is 28kms away to Park Plaza Hotel, near the bike rental place.  Had some lunch and then fell asleep for the rest of the day, could not wake up. Went out to eat and had a cold Kingfisher and got back to the hotel and slept through the night till Richard called me at 7:30am.  We had breakfast  and caught up from last time we were together in Baghdad, he had a heart attack when he got to London and now has 7 stints, but other than that is good to go. Got a tuk tub to go fetch our bikes 2kms away, and the driving is hectic here and anything goes. We have a 200cc Hero Pulse 2022, was meant to be a 2024 but wasn't. So we are all set for tomorrow's  departure north. A friend that hosted me in Israel is in town and am going to have breakfast with him in the morning at 7 am and then will try to get out of Delhi.     Vie...
Read more