Grand Himalayan Road Tour (GHiRT)- What to Visit?

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The entire team of 20+ thrilled and excited Roadies of Leh-Ladkah Tour (most are members of Team-BHP website) are back in their respective home town now.

Excited tour reports and pictures are being posted thick and fast, on the team-BHP site now

Any IMer interested in seeing those posts and pictures, please see the thread link below, titled: HumbLeh’d

http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/travel...humbleh-d.html
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Here is HVK's GPS file of the entire Tour Route and Waypoints. It may be of great value to people who drive or bike in these popular routes of J&K, Kargil, Zanskar-Valley, Ladakh, Leh, Nubra-Valley, Pangon-Tso, Tso-Morori, Keylang, Lahaul, Spiti-Valley, Kinnaur, Sangla-Chitkul, Shimla etc.

The file is a Zipped KML file, that can be downloaded, unzipped and opened in Google Earth. The File is here: LADAKH-HVK

It is also available as a Garmin Mapsource (GDB file): HERE
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Swapnil

Thank you KS for this valuable info ..... I'm sure this will be great resource for travelers planning to visit these regions.

hvkumar

Please check out the following link - it has complete details of my recent Ladakh-Lahaul-Spiti-Kinnaur trip, covering all the valleys from Kashmir to Kinnaur.

http://groups.google.com/group/hvkum...adakh-sep-2009

You will find the log book of the drive, GPS points of the route/points of interest, travelogues, photo albums and tips on how to drive to Ladakh.

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amarshah

Just scanned through it briefly, its very extensive... will read it later throughly...

Cheers

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Amar

Himalayan Trips - http://amards14.googlepages.com/

RoyalBob

KS.. I have spent around 4-5 hours spanning 3 days to read all you post on IM and your blog. Your life and travels are inspirational. I hope i can replicate (at least some of) your adventures and travels after my retirement, which is very very far but I am saving and planning..

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RoyalBob: Welcome to IM! ... Hope you like the IM Forums, as much as I do.

Thanks for your 'nice' first post! I am happy you found my blog & posts inspirational! Good luck with your travels ... and whenever it comes, a wonderful retirement.
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RoyalBob

I do like like IM a lot and was reading it for the last 15 days or so(at present i am a reading the pots 'mode') and after going through your threads and posts, I just felt like commenting on your thread first!!...especially i felt inspired by your travel all over India with your engineering classmate/friend all over India is so inspiring. I want to do the travels like you(at least day dreaming. to borrow your words) to this kind of traveling all over India with my engineering classmates(guys with the same passion).

I live aboard and visited many countries in middle east and some in Europe and enjoyed my travels a lot...but i am always homesick…Always thought India has much to offer ands feeling that i have not seen enough of India(even though I was born and bought up there and i traveled to many parts of India on my job for 7 years).

After reading your posts I want to know from you (If you can..please)… what made you retire at 53...is it a sudden decision or a well planned one w.r.t finances and securing your family well being etc...i know you are a IIT man….but I guess there is always an internal struggle (day dreaming I my case) ,where to stop and to pursue your own passions.

Like I said my retirement is very far (I am in my mid thirties) and i want to seriously plan and save so that I can peruse my dream of traveling all over India by road, train, trekking and camping etc.

Thanks for the welcome and good wishes.

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RoyalBob: With that Avatar-name, I was thinking you are a Bob, working in Dubai ... but now I find you are a Swadesi afterall ... in fact and in heart!

My retiring was both - a long day-dream playing at the back of my mind for 30 years ... but happened suddenly! I mean I was always day-dreaming of retiring at 45; but by then was too immersed in work to quit. Around 55, one fine day, just suddenly decided to retire and make the dream real!

When I retired the money (savings) was not enough (per wife) ... It never is! Now after some years of 'retired' experience, I think it is (and was always) enough. You just need to 'adjust' the tap a bit. I wish I had retired much earlier. I could have.
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capt_mahajan

I need to put a new washer on that damn tap first

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ks_bluechip

Hey Capt! Good Morning!!

I enjoy all your IM-posts ... and also like your current Avatar a lot. Am glad you went to back to it.

For a long time I used to think it was you, sitting on that chair. Later, I found you were lying down there ... on the mouse-pad
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RoyalBob

Thanks KS,i will keep that in mind..''its never enough, adjust''...great words of advise,i know its easy to day dream but hard to impliment,thats why i respect you!!

Yes KS,i am a 100% desi guy born in Andhra/Hyderabad and settled in DUBAI, thats the reason i hang around your's and Capt Mahajan posts for inspiration..like a stalker though with good intentions..but my profile name RoyalBob has definatly has a meaning!!...I know royal is now a days a bad word in India

RoyalBob

[quote=capt_mahajan;851984]I enjoy all your IM-posts ... and also like your current Avatar a lot. Am glad you went to back to it. For a long time I used to think it was you, sitting on that chair. Later, I found you were lying down there ... on the mouse-pad QUOTE]


Capt.. Since this Hyderabad guy has at last managed to complete 10 posts (with some really silly stuff and also

i am an admirer of your posts here, Can I request you to suggest an avatar for my account..Preferebly a great one like yours and i am willing to be lying down on the mouse pad

Also please spare me from public humiliation for my stupid postif you still cannot resist ..please PM me