We woke up pretty early and after a quick breakfast served by our support team, we were all packed and ready to go towards our next stop. - a few km ahead of Udaipur. (Not the one in Rajasthan).
First thing’s first we had to get our bikes up to the road from our campsite, and the competitive spirit kicked in early. Someone started cycling the short uphill, and soon many of us were falling in line only for one of us to break their cycle chain even before we had crossed 500mts. But Hey, when you have someone like AC with you - everything can be repaired. Out came the chain tool, and in a matter of minutes the cycle was up and running.
The road went downhill till Tandi bridge, from where we would be taking a left towards Udaipur. The road on the right continues towards Leh, and that was not the adventure we had embarked upon this time.
We cycled all along the Chenab, through cabbage fields, sometimes close to the river while at times much higher up.
Our campsite was in the middle of a small pine tree forest ahead of Udaipur, and labelled Mini Manali by the support team. It was right on the banks of the river and was one of the most beautiful campsite of the tour.
We reached early in the afternoon, and had a nice hot water bath and relaxed for sometime. In the evening we strolled up to the village to visit an old temple which had beautiful wooden carvings inside (Apparently those carvings are from the times of Pandavas themselves. )
As sunset, we spent sometime by the river enjoying the cool breeze and the waters. Post our usual dinner and briefing, we spent sometime trying to spot the Milky Way before finally retiring to bed.
Tomorrow onwards the real ride was about to start.
