Day 7 : Keylong - Zanskar Sumdo - Baralacha La - Rohtang - Burua

We woke up early morning and decided to hit the passes. We had three Passes on our agenda and decided to hit the Shinku La Pass. Well as far as we could towards Shinku La on the still under construction Darcha Padam road which would connect Lahaul with Zans kar in Ladakh. This Road is a part of the ambitious NPD Road projected which is supposed to connect Nimmu, at the junction of the Indus and the Zanskar Rivers with Padam in Zanskar and there upon to Darcha in Lahaul Valley. This Road has been a long standing demand of the people of Zanskar as they want direct connectivity with Leh and Darcha as they share Religious and Cultural ties with bith these areas. Pre sently they have to take a circuitious Route all the way via Kargil to get to Leh.

after the dotted checkpost and crossing the 6 village there are two roads one road goes toward Baralachala and the other one goes to singular well actually it will go to singular and all the Bittu Padam and that should be interesting Road one day Opposite of was the was the village called Zanskar Sumdo which was one of the market places we could see in the Google Maps so we started of two words on skirts on the the road was beautiful as a noun through the mountains and we could see that this year there was a lot of snow

Day 8 : Burua Manali Naggar Tirthan Valley Gushaini

It was the day I dreaded the most as we had to go thorugh the Manali town and we heard great stories of Traffic Jams all over the place. To make matters wrose the Road leading from Barua Village to Manali along the Beas River had caved in and there was space for only one Vehicle to pass at a time. So one side of the Traffic had to be stopped to let the Traffic go from the other side and this happening during Peak Tourist season when thousands of Cars are headed up the Rohtang is a nightmare for the local Authorities. On top of that some outsiders and mostly local Taxi and Pick up operators were acting like a law unto themselves and breaking