Comments on: Manali – Leh travel guide

By: upshi

upshi — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:48:33 +0000

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By: Sharninder

Sharninder — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:44:52 +0000

Hardeep: There is no restriction on making the trip with a pillion.

By: Hardeep Singh

Hardeep Singh — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:21:39 +0000

hi.. is with pillion can v make trip. or need any clearence for this. bcoz mostly people do solo.

By: Rajeev

Rajeev — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:39:55 +0000

sharminder,

thanks for the informative post man. My friends and I are planning a trip to Leh, two weeks from now. We are taking the delhi-manali bus, manali-leh cab route.

While we have answers to some questions, there are still a lot of unanswered questions .. do you think I could email you or perhaps, call you, to discuss a few?

thanks much in advance,
Rajeev

By: manju

manju — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:17:51 +0000

can anyone tell how much the cab rentals would cost , from Manali to Leh. ???

By: Sharninder

Sharninder — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:50:47 +0000

@Dhruv: I’d suggest that you reach Delhi from Mumbai by car or by air. From Delhi you can take a bus to Manali and then hire a cab going to Leh. It isn’t as much fun as driving down yourself but that’s upto you.

By: Dhruv

Dhruv — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:22:05 +0000

Hey thank you all,

Well reading this.. I feel like going to this place.But I am confused about 1 thing

Would it be better if we travel by bus or car or train or should we hire a car .We would be around 6 people. all age between 20-22. Aling from mumbai.

Resopnse would be helpful.

Thanks

By: Sharninder

Sharninder — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:57:36 +0000

@Anuz: Anywhere from INR 15k to INR 50k or more.

By: anuz

anuz — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:18:30 +0000

what are the expenses like?

By: indira murthy

indira murthy — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:12:28 +0000

Hello,I feel must share my experience of the Manlali Leh trip we four made in a car ( Maruti Esteem< Yes that is right) last June. I am now 69 yrs old( sixtynine) and my friend also same age and my friends daughter andher driver much younger than the three of us (from Uttaranchal) undertook this trip from Delhi. Our first stop was Mandi in himachal Pradesh. Then we went over Rohtang to Keylong straight and stayed there for 2 beautiful days and nights. This is where we experienced a suddden TOOFAN as the locals called it, which actually is a sfast, unexpected Mountain storm very charecteristic of this region. The mountains sent an alarm bell to tell us not to stay overnight anywhere in between Keylong Na Leh.
We took much longer( Four hours?) than the jeeps for abvious reasons in the Esteem. many truck drivers were amused to see us rolling by in the esteem, but they were helpful when we needed. No tyre problems or anything like that but we got stuck in a summer stream once and had to be pulled out.A Bolero and truck also got stuck in the same place. Thanks to our skilful drivers, even my friendds daughter drove quite a bit on this raod -we made it in one piece and more than anything we were worried if our Esteem could make the journey. Yes it did and beautifully so. For us two senior citizens the ride was so luxurious our backs did not realise that we had made this trip after reaching Leh.
Ony if we were less concerned about the car, we would have enjoyed it so much better. At Tanglang La we took a picture, and hurried down as we felt dizzy. ( I am talking for the two older members)
We stayed inside the hotel room for 24 hours in Leh and went by car to the museum next day. having a car at our disposal made all the difference. We walked very less unless we had to. We came back through Alchi and Lamayuru (very beutiful indeed), Dras ( Tiger hill fame, where we stayed for a night ) to Srinagar and back. The Vishnu Dhbha Parothas outside pathankote is still fresh in my mind.
I have seen small children too on this trip. We were not unduly wooried about Altitude sickness as we had gone to Char dham trip earlier and no problem at all at that time.
Many elderly people are put off by such road trips. But it is worth going to the heart of Himalays once at least in our life time. Only we have the Himalayas at our doorstep!!
have a nice journey, Indira Murthy from bangalore