Leh by Thar

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Viny

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Wooh...painfull blows...but it seems god has had a helping hand behind you :)
ACC must be doing good :)
 
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DKay

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Hi Ravi,

Congrats on completing this trip in your Linea, amazing skills!!! Your travelogue is shaping up nicely and am loving it.

A slight correction if I may. The river at Sonmarg is Sindh alright, but it is not Indus (Sindhu). The Indus flows from Tibet to Leh and then just across the Leh range to POK. Never enters the Kashmir Valley.

regards
 
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harneet

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Hello Sir
The pics are awesome.
regarding the route from Hyderabad to Delhi
you sjould have avoided the Nagpur, MP route as it is the worst road even for the trucks.
Alternate Route:
Hyderabad-->Nanded-->Hingoli-->Washim-->Akola(by pass)-->Kota-->Tonk->Jaipur-->Delhi
any day this route is far beter than the one which you have taken
next time.

J.Ravi said:
Here is the next part.

Thanks, ToughGuy, for the compliments.

Thanks, pushkark. I saw a couple of MH-registered MS SX4 at Leh.

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Some vital statistics of my Leh expedition:

7849.8 km

19 days [9 - 27 September 2011]

13 states/UT [TN/AP/MH/MP/UP/HR/DL/PB/JK/CH/RJ/GJ/KA]

2 occupants [Myself and my wife]

1 car [My Linea]

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We got up late in the morning, breakfasted in the room itself ordered from room service and again rested. Peanut was a good budget hotel. I made advance reservation through MakeMyTrip at a lower tariff. I went down and requested the security guard to arrange for a car wash and my Linea was gleaming and shining within another hour or so.

We checked out at 1 pm on 11 September 2011 [Sunday] and went straight to Haldiram's at Bardi for lunch. After relishing a delicious lunch, we headed for IOC COCO pump at Nagpur where my Linea had her tankful.

We headed for Amritsar at 2 pm. I took Seoni>Lakhnadon>Narasimhapur>Sagar>Jhansi>Gwalior>Agra>Delhi>Panipat>Ludhiana>Jalandhar>Amritsar as guided by my MMI Lx130 navigator.
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I had horrible experience of driving through many bad roads all along the night. My Linea bottom-scraped 21 times before reaching Gwalior. One good stretch followed by a bad stretch. All along the route, there was cattle menace in MP and UP. Driving through huge mound of slush, craters and potholed roads in towns like Lakhnadon, Sagar, Jhansi, etc. was pain in the neck.:mad: At that time itself, I decided that my return journey would be via NH 8/4. I got fed up of North-South Corridor. I could not click photographs in the night as I had to concentrate on my driving and my wife was totally shell-shocked.
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Since the road-widening works were in progress, there were no signages, no indicators for diversion. At a Y-junction, I entered into Narasimhapur town instead of its bypass. At last, I found some human beings from whom I came to know that I had to take the bypass on the left fork. My MMI navigator many times went blank or showed old route through the towns. After Narsimhapur bypass, we stopped and had delicious tava roti and dal fry at a road-side dhaba frequented by truckers.

We reached Gwalior the next day early morning. The road condition improved after Gwalior. After crossing Agra, we had sumptuous breakfast at Bikaneerwala on NH 2. Later, I had a power nap for about half-hour and continued the journey.

We continued our journey, crossed New Delhi and entered NH 1 and stopped at Sukhdev Vaishno Dhaba at Murthal for late-lunch at 4:30 pm. We ate a hearty and satisfying meal. The journey continued. I parked my Lina at the road side and had the second power nap for about half-hour in the night somewhere between Ludhiana and Jalandhar.
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We reached Hotel Sapphire, Amritsar at 2:30 am on 13 September 2011 [Tuesday], checked in to our room and slept immediately.
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Many more photographs are waiting in the queue!
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J.Ravi

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rkbharat said:
But I must say that its just too unnecessary adventure to take Linea to Leh.
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Thanks, rkbharat. But, I wanted to drive my Linea on the highest motorable road in the world.:grin:
Viny said:
ACC must be doing good :)
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Thanks, Viny, once again. All along the Leh expedition, ACC was set at 20 deg C protecting us from freezing temperatures and dust.
Nishchint Sood said:
hats off to your driving sir...nice travelogue...
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Thanks, Nishchint Sood, for the compliments.
DKay said:
A slight correction if I may. The river at Sonmarg is Sindh alright, but it is not Indus (Sindhu). The Indus flows from Tibet to Leh and then just across the Leh range to POK. Never enters the Kashmir Valley.
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Thanks, DKay, for the compliments and correction. I have replaced the old photographs with the new ones with corrected captions. Thanks to BCMTouring for enabling me edit my posts upto 2 days.:)
harneet said:
Alternate Route:
Hyderabad-->Nanded-->Hingoli-->Washim-->Akola(by pass)-->Kota-->Tonk->Jaipur-->Delhi any day this route is far beter than the one which you have taken.
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Thanks, harneet, for suggesting the alternate route.
 
mindless wanderer

mindless wanderer

with age, get a cage!
Some really nice pictures there and the resort looks wow too. :grin:

BTW during your trip, did you feel that the 1.4 engine is underpowered? :confused:

Cheers
 
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