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From: Bhaskar Chatterjee
Date: August 17, 2007 11:53:54 PM GMT+05:30
To: Praveen Suthrum
Subject: yeLEHmerawalaticket
Have beer with your iit friend on 31st evening
i shall be in delhi by the time you are done.
IndiGo flight
6E304
31Aug07
Hyderabad (HYD)
Delhi (DEL)
Departs Hyderabad : 22:30
Reaches Delhi : 00:30
Chandra said khardungla is overrated. not so so tough etc.
chandigarh - manali is cool. not at all dangerous etc.
he said to fill 2 jeery cans of petrol at the last petrol pump before leh.
he felt sarchu was the highest and coldest and toughest, leh was fun and khardungla is ok.
suggested we dont sleep at sarchu, try to spend the night at lower altitute places.
he did manali leh in 2 days with mostly nightdriving .that was one thing he said
we should not do. start early, reach early.
have very thick socks and good shoes.
they say even shit freezes at sarchu.
and water on the shoes becomes ice in no time
sarchu was the only place where he felt uncomfortable. he puked. and his cousin had an upset stomach after eating
in the army camp there.
have multiple layers of clothing thermal, windsheeter, raincoat etc.
leh - srinagar is cool. very nice.
be safe in srinagar - jammu route. day travelling only.
all else is all cool.
it seems the road goes down 30 kms from khardundla....and then ends....
he also said there is some lake that changes colors ....thats somewhere from leh towards china...he said its a must see..
according to chandra tent not needed
passport not needed. pan should be enough. he said that too is not needed.
he said food is all shit between manali till you reach srinagar. eat good at manali, wont get it for a long time after that.
spent 1 day in manali to acclimatize. he said he didnt even know about AMS, when he puked at sarchu, he just thought he
must have been too tired travelling from kanyakumari.
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