Day 7 was spent mostly on bed as I was down with cold. Since most of us were tired of riding on gravel, we decided to hire a taxi to go to Pangong Tso, which we never reached. We started at 6:30am for Pangong Tso. Once we crosses Shey village and started the ascend to…
Paji had started to feel better. We had breakfast and then we left for Leh. Tents at Pang Once you leave Pang, the roads are really good and you can ride as fast as your bike can. My avy could only do 70-80. The power had reduced drastically. However there was no problem in start…
We forgot to take Diamox in Sarchu. It was so cold that we could only think about eating and snuggling inside our beds. Woke up to here We had initially planned to reach Leh. We started around 8:30 am. Right after we left the tent we were greeted by some of the beautiful sights. The…
Woke up to realize where we were. It was extremely beautiful with sun shining brilliantly between mountains, a river flowing by, a waterfall. It was a welcome surprise from the last day’s ride in mud. Roads were good for most part of the ride till Baralacha pass. You will also encounter a number of streams…
We had reached Manali on a Sunday. Shops are closed on Sunday, so we could not buy most of the stuff, which meant we could not start early. The shops opened around 9:30 am. We bought bungee cords, plastic sheets, rubber shoes and plastic cans for carrying petrol. We went back to the hotel and…
I woke up early around 5 am. I looked out of the window to realize where I was sleeping, among the mountains and there was greenery all around. Suddenly the thought of bike came to my mind, I rushed outside immediately to check if my bike was still there. Breathed a sigh of relief after I saw…
I went on this trip with 4 college friends whom I had managed to cajole into this. Flight tickets were booked from Bangalore to Chandigarh. I had already shipped my bike to Chandigarh using GATI which was waiting for me. We rented 3 more bikes from http://www.bikerentalsmanali.com/. We booked it there after testing it. Recommend…
This will be a series of posts about my recent Manali-Leh montorcycle trip. Some photos for now: Welcome to the paradise Rohtang Pass Album: https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/102740689436217036488/albums/6063798536968575137
It was a lazy Sunday morning and I was cleaning my flat. My cousin called me up and said that he is driving from Bhillai to Tirupathi and asked me to meet him at Tirupathi. I told him that I would check if I was free and let him know. I just wanted to check…
Python lacks good tag cloud generators which is simple to use. I needed it in a feature that I was working on. So I wrote a small tag cloud generator based on PIL. The quality of image generated is not very good but it does the job. It is inspired from jQCloud. Most of the logic has…