Ladakh Marathon Trip - Day 4

• Up by 4:50 AM, felt much better from last night, caught up some sleep, we already heard about few drop outs for the day's trip then.
• We had a huge increase in elevation, with our day's trip to nubra valley, via khardungla which is the highest motorable road in the world.
• Starting with 10500 feet at leh, we gained quite considerabally over the course, we had a pit stop at 14000 ft and proceeded towards khardungala pass which is the highest motarable road in the world, eagerly looking forward for it
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• We reached Khardungala Pass which is at an altitude of 18380 ft , which is the highest motarable road in the world. It was too cold out there, had quite a few snaps and all being excited about being in there
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• One of the three cars set aside for hyderabad runners, returned back to leh because few of our runners were ill and wanted to take rest
• Rest two cars proceeded towards a decline of 9500 ft towards Nebrua Valley, where we had sand dunes and camel safari
• With high expectations about sand dunes, when we arrive there around 12:30 or so, I myself was kind of disappointed with the size of what they call it as sand dunes, still not too bad
• We had nice small stream of water flowing around near that which was a releif in that hot open area of sand dunes
  
• Myself, Padma, Ashish and Gupta were in one car , we set on to a camel safari soon after we reached there, cute small camels and reasonable big ones with unique bells being hanged on them was nice sight
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• We set on a camel ride with each one of us on one camel, went on for a 15 minute camel ride, it was nice one, had fun talking about camels, how one could be a male camel because its staring at girls or so…nice 15 minutes well spent
• As we were finishing our ride , we had our second contingent of runners shiv, kirnamai, devyani, Uday arrived and starting their ride, had few snaps taken across each other.
• Uday was waiting alone in the tent, where we all settled for our second group of riders to return back from the camel safari
• Once all had come in had a few snaps around the stream and headed to lunch in a nearby local camp
  
  
  
  
  
• Returned back from neubra valley, with one of our cautious runner drinking excessive water and puking, but was better, then on.
• I could see the sense of joy shown by a person who is playing around with snow, writing on it and throwing it around, none other than our shiv kosgi.
  
  
  
  
• We again briefly stopped at khardungala pass for pit stop, purchased some collectibles and started again.
• Being worried about the acclimatization run, few of us set out for a 5k run heading towards the airport, it was a 2.5 km out and back with onward totally being downhill and return being totally uphill, man that was the toughest 5k I ran in 7 years.
• Everybody was visibly tired and was worried about the next day's early morning start, quickly had our dinner and hit our bed