Ladakh Marathon Trip - Day 2

• Being tired from the previous day's walk and a hefty dinner and being late, everybody crashed into bed .
• It was so late in the night that we realized that there was a curfew declared for overnight and would be in in effect the following day, so we had to leave early around 5 AM
• All planned for an early wake up , unusually and unexpectedly ;) people were all ready and we sneaked out of the hotel at 5:20 AM,
• With an alternative awesome view of the dal lake without any of the house boats blocking the view, was nice one indeed.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• We stopped for a breakfast at around 7 AM, only enough to give a feel to the server at the hotel that we haven't eaten in days, it went to that level people wanted to have a short walk to feel better from bloated bin :)
• We were headed to the famous location heard by any Indian, KARGIL, yes we went along the familiar ranges i.e. Tiger Hill, Kargil Memorial, Tololing Pass.

 

 

• Only by noon did we realize the target of 2 PM seems ambitious given our flock of sheep go around, eat, run, the moment we stop our van :)
• Unfortunately we had a flat tire with our van, but fortunate enough we had it identified at right terrain.
• We gave business to every single vendor along the route, few water melons, 40 odd omelets, emptying shop after shop , but I am pretty sure everybody enjoyed whatever they were doing and eating along

 

 

 

• Fulfilling the wishes of some of the girls to hop on to the top of the van for few SOLO snaps, we leave on to visit the Kargil memorial. What a daring feat have our heroes done, just couldn't do much beyond loads of respect for those who were involved in the Kargil combat
• We were to stay in an Army Guest house, after few enquires we reach the army workshop "Kargil Eagles", soon settled down in our respective rooms, with triple sharing
• Soon started to recollect my NCC trekking camp days, being put up in a similar set up, inside an army camp.
• After a high tea and a brief introduction to the Camp Captain , we managed to get few games of volleyball, along with some of the jawans stationed in the camp, had fun games.
• Few women started to walk and slowly jog with the intent to get acclimatized to the elevation
• We gathered again to the officer's mess for the dinner at 8:30, with Padma helping out the cook inside the kitchen, folks had a great dinner.
• We managed to watch the FIFA world cup final, until 3:30 AM along with the camp captain and our sleeping stretch capable Coach Shiv kosgi :), Balaji, myself, gupta and shiv post watching the matched settled in our rooms with utmost fear to the almost dozen dogs within the camp which we had to negotiate to get to our rooms