After rainshowers all night we were pleased to see gaps of blue in the whispy clouds veiling the pine and deodar forest that creep up the mountain slopes. We headed to the halfway point of Marhi around 37km from Manali. This is the only real spot to break this 50km climb of just under 2000m [...]
During our 7 hr overlay in Mumbai we watched in the neon-lit departures lounge, pictures of flooded Ladakh breaking the news. It was all in Hindi, but there was no mistaking that it was where we were heading too. Some hindi-speaking passengers confirmed that indeed it was Ladakh and that a massive cloudburst lasting less than 20minutes had sent [...]
In a couple of days we will be heading off once more the alluring Himalayas of North India. This time if will be a little different. We will be guiding two groups of 8 cyclists along a section of the 2500km we covered last year. That section is none other than the Manali-Leh Highway, a [...]
