October 12, 2012

Kinnaurified

Akash Deep Traveling baspa river, baspa valley, Chitkul, dangerous roads of kinnaur, forts of pandvas, hair pin bends spiti, Himalayas, ka, ka village, kajigs, kazigs, khaab, khaab bridge, Kinnaur, kinner kailash, kinner kailash range, Last village of India, mountain roads, nako, nako lake, nako monestry, pandvas, peo, poo, pooh, rekong peo, rock cur roads, sablga, sangla valley, satluj, spello, spiti, spiti river, sutlej, valley view

Day 1 The conquest of Jalori

Day 2 Chitkul- The last village of India

Woke up early after a bumpy ride from Jhakri but was feeling too lazy to get off the bed, but as have to switch up with the schedules I finally left room around 9:00, and had breakfast along with friends I met last evening. Left Chitkul around 10:00am as planned initially to visit Kalpa, then give a try for permits of Shipki la at Peo and then to move Shipki la and further but all my planning gone vain as I gotta know that the DM was out of station. Unfortunately it was Saturday, ahh… luck didn’t work this time. So I started for Peo and then decided to head towards Nako on the same day so that can save time for further riding plans.

kinnaur1-baspa valley1 — **Beautiful Baspa river and Valley**

kinnaur2-baspa valley2 — **Beautiful Baspa valley near Sangla**

kinnaur3 baspa valley3 — **A Village in Baspa river valley**

kinnaur4 road to sangla — **Dangerously beautiful rockcut road to Sangla**

Kinnaur5 road to peo — **Road to Peo along with Raging Satluj**

kinnaur peo view — **Peo town with Kinner kailash Range**

Till Akpa ride was quite rough but after few kms the road changed into awesome newly black tarred smooth roads and it was fun riding on Indo-Tibet road. After having a break in Spello started further ride towards Peo. Roads were not great condition here and the things got worse when clouds came along chilling winds.

kinnaur6 road to akpa — **Aproaching Akpa while riding along with Very Deep valley**

kinnaur7 raod to pooh — **Never Ending road alongside Never ending Valley**

kinnaur8 road to akpa — **Beautiful Butt Break Spot- A raging water stream**

kinnaur9 road of kinnaur — **Yet another Butt break spot while apraoching Spello**

kinnaur10 fort of pandvas — **These forts are believed to be constructed by Pandvas near Spello**

kinnaur11 spello — **Welcome to Spello the gate says this 🙂**

Just crossing after Khaab and climbing few kms there comes the series of Zigs towards Ka village which is commonly known as Ka Zigs and it was real fun riding on there and in no time around 7:30 I was in Nako village and. Luckily all of sudden met there an IITian, facebook friend Roushon Singh who was also riding to Spiti, so we planned to ride further together for rest of ride.

kinnaur12 Khaab bridge — **The famous Khaab Bridge- Confluence of Spiti and Satluj River(coming from Right)**

kinnaur13 kazigs — **Series of Hair pin bends know as Ka-zigs**

kinnaur14 kazigs 2 — **The whole view changes after climbing Ka-zigs, yet another view of hair pin bends**

kinnaur15 village Ka — **Ka village after climbing Ka-Zigs, the green patch is village itself**

kinnaur16 road to nako — **Climb towards Nako**

kinnaur18 Nako-evening — **Beautiful Sunset at Nako**

Day 4 Welcome to Spiti-First View

Day 5 Sky villages of Spiti

Day 6-10 Pin Valley Mud Suprise

Day 11-12 Kaza-Manali A Different Feel

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