We left the hotel at 6.00 on the morning of Day 7 in order to get the bus to Leh. The journey went well until about 2 hours into the trip when we had to get out of the bus and take our kit up the hill due there being a rockfall on the road. Once we made it up to the other bus we had to wait for it to be refuelled. So we took this oportunity to top up our tans by sunning ourselves on the rocks overlooking the valley.
After the bus was refuelled it had to be turned to face the right way. This involved it doing a three point turn on a very narrow road resulting in the picture you see below,
One of our team was on that bus, he didn't realise quite what had happened until someone showed him a picture.
The rest of the journey for that day was a mix of sharp turns (some too sharp for the local lorry drivers)...
...and magnificent views.
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Eventually after about ten hours in the bus we stopped at a small shanty town where the 'hotels' were permanent tents. We had a game of cricket with the locals and spent the night playing cards.
The second days travelling passed much the same as the first apart the bus didn't hang over the edge of the road as much. The journey is better expressed in pictures.
This is where we started to go over the second highest motorable road in the world. At over 5500m I was starting to suffer from altitude sickness in a bad way, namely vomiting and intense head aches , however I wouldn't have missed the journey for the world.
As you can the see the change in scenery was drammatic and surprised us all. We eventually pulled into Leh in the dark and we managed to find a hotel. Albeit we had to fit six people into a double room. Luckily it would only be for one night
Jesus, I wouldn't of liked to be riding shotgun when the bus went over the edge. I bet none of you had clean underwear for a week :-)