Manali-Leh status, June 25th

More to follow :  reaching the Rothang took six and a half hours before I could unload the mounatinbike and roll ( not really swim , the water was nowhere more than a foot deep the first four hundred meters )  down to Koksar.

A cannonball group two days later had the  same experience , in both cases  not from the road condition but the massive stream of vehicles going Manali-Rothang-Manali.

Manali – Leh Road , May 28th

Manali – Leh Road Random Shots, originally uploaded by desoumal.

See desoumal´s other great photos in the link.

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Manali-Leh : buses running

Latest bus report came from poster Amy on Indiamike , a Keylong-Leh run that actually went according to the HRTC timetable.

Above (soon) desoumal´s shot from May 28th.

Manali-Leh white-out

Tanglang La , by hitanshu

Road reports start to trickle , and the first returnees from Leh  :  after more snow the Baralacha La remained closed up towards the end of May , people turning back to Keylong as late as the 27th.  Indiamiker hitanshu (photo above ) and Ashish describe one of the whitest opening scenes ever : 

“Suraj Tal was fully covered with snow. Only if you look at the notice board, you will come to know, that there is a lake here, otherwise its was all snow…snow.”

 

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