Day 9: Kaza – I call it Mini-Leh.

Posted by omvaikul on Oct 17, 2011 in Spiti Valley Trip Log 2011 |

6th August, 2011

Today morning felt awesome. Waking up near the roof of Himalayas is something I’m grateful to have in my this life time. And Tabo is really a wonderful place.

Last night from some folks we heard there is a German Bakery near the market area so we decided to head there for tea and breakfast before we check out.

Breakfast was good and I also had the pleasure of a local company. My good old friend, stray dog. He looked very hungry so I fed him some cookies and an egg. He looked delighted.

Yesterday’s foreign group, we met them here also. They had plans to visit Pin valley and so was ours.

After we were done we moved to our hotel, packed our stuff and mounted the gear.

I think around 8.30am we were on the road.

Kaza was just 40kms from here but the road from here to Kaza was just a name sake road. And the heat was also suddenly getting to us. With no water and snacks we carried, this patch seemed like a 100kms. Also couldn’t find a shade either to get away from the sun for few minutes.

In an hour when Anahita wanted to go a to a bathroom, it was mission impossible as we couldn’t even find a building close by.

Finally a structure just before the diversion for Pin valley came by and it was some old building where cement were stored. No bathroom here also but Anahita found a room which had door and cement sacks socked it and thats it. Now its called a bathroom as per this log….

After I heard this we just scrammed before anyone sees us.

Buoy she was happy after this. And we also managed to find some water to drink.

After this the views were amazing all the way to the turn of Pin Valley.

Very picturesque and what colors of nature we were getting to see.

The dog wanted to pee on my bike only

We took lot of stops from the entrance of Pin valley to all the way up to Guling.

The terrain here is totally different. And climate too had come to little cool and pleasant now.

Just after Guling we saw a small bridge taking you across the river. We quickly took the offroad patch to reach down to the river.

It was quite shaky and some wooden planks were broken or missing. We went little across and posed for some photos.

After spending almost half an hour here we started riding now back to the main highway, heading towards Kaza.

Pin valley to Kaza the road is simply amazing. And the view around made again stop again and again for some photos.

There is more than one way to wear knee guard.

Late in the afternoon we reached Kaza and entered the town in search for the famous Hotel Khangsar. It was recommended to me by so many people and from so many logs I have read till date on Kaza.

After covering the entire market we came to know its just on the opposite side of the petrol pump. We parked and went in and like always Anahita bargained us a good deal. She’s the Man.

We rested for sometime. Freshen up and decided to meet outside to head for the market, walking.

My jeans was ripping apart so first we decided to get that fixed. I wished I had got my camera along, I had left it back at the hotel.

The market site was a ground for photographers. We strolled up and down the streets of Kaza market. Bought a few stuffs…. No actually I and Angelo bought a few stuffs, Anahita shopped…..