The funny thing was I did climb that hill far away but when looked back for return, it was damn scary being slippery and straight gorge on the side below 😯 … Very very slowly and heart in the mouth I managed to get down from that hill and went back to car. We were short on time, so we clicked few pictures after climbing a vantage point on a near by hill. In distance, you can see the route to Yaye Village somewhere near Horala Pass, from where one can approach the shores of Yaye Tso lake. Yaye Tso is a heart shaped, volcanic lake at an altitude of 4988 Mtrs and was the 8th lake we saw on the trip so far… Hiking few hundred Mtrs at 4800+ Mtrs just to get a glimpse of the lake, again is not an easy task for someone unfit like me. However, we did not force the issue with Rigzin as he was already upset and worried with the broken shocker… So, we missed Horala by couple of KMs else would have been 18 passes in the trip 😉 After a cautious drive, we reached the top of Nurpa La or Thato La at an altitude of 4815 Mtrs Nurpa La or Thato La, was the 10th Pass of our trip and from this pass you can get the first view of Yaye Tso Lake I confused Nurpa La with Horala which was further away from it and from where Yaye Tso is completely visible. We kept our speed slow and went on to road which was paved so as to have less bumps. After thinking a lot, we pulled out some ropes and tied it brutally to help us pass through the day. The shocker spring had broken and that happened while crossing the river bed before the lakes and since then we just ignored this noise. We were more surprised that there was a primary school of small children up there and without any second thought we turned our cars for DoW Cause | GYAAN 500 You can read the entire experience we had spreading those smiles up there in Nidar region at the DoW Community link: DoW Cause | GYAAN 500 in action at Nidar – Nyoma, Ladakh They could hardly believe we arrived there as I have never heard someone doing this route except one. The multi-coloured mountains, the soothing sound of water stream flowing besides and the views of wide valley in the front of eyes were just inspiring to call me every other day :)… After hours of wandering since morning, we landed up into the first village and met humans, finally. Being in that very region, it was almost like a kind of feeling in the middle of an abandoned mother nature, hardly traversed or any signs of humans. Soon, we just ran through a big heard of Kiangs who just kept running away and away from us. Work was going on for construction of tarred roads and hope things will improve in time to come in this region too.
No damage done though and then it was just the usual dirt and pebbled track. Rigzin marginally managed it with elegance but not without brushing the underbelly of Scorpio.
The dream soon ended as we had to cross an extremely tricky section which was almost on some water stream as it appeared. As we descended, the road was much smooth for a while into the Nidar region though still a dirt track. It was very windy up there at the top but views were dramatically different on both sides of the pass.
These marmots were a bit different in the sense that they were very shy of humans 😉 … Hardly anyone could click even a distant picture as they disappeared immediately into their holes )… Nevertheless, very soon we reached the top of Thitzarbo La, our 9th high mountain pass of the trip, at an altitude of 5213 Mtrs Kyon Tso 2 lake could be seen just marginally in the distance. Day 7 | 2nd Half | Thitzarbo La – Nidar – Mahe – Nurpa La – Yaye TsoĪs we ascended towards the pass, we encountered plenty of marmots around.
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