Was a cloudy and cold six hours ride down to Padum. No sunshine today. Back at The Alps Guesthouse which is very comfortable with good food nice rooms for INR 2500.
Suru River Valley
The rock formations and colours are amazing but not quite captured in this photo.
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.
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...
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