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**Vaufi** · #1 31 Aug 2010

Anybody been out there lately? I reckon the Kargil - Leh - Manali part should be safe. But who has recent information about the Srinagar - Kargil stretch?

**ilesmark** · #2 1 Sep 2010

We drove Leh-Kargil-Srinagar in Nov 2007. Can't add much apart from making sure to check on the traffic times going over Zoji-La. It's controlled by the Indian Army and is open going 1 way for 12 hours, then the other for the other 12. If you get there at the wrong time, you'll have a long wait!

**ssa2** · #3 2 Sep 2010

Well we just flew out of Leh on the 31st. of Aug. so I guess that is pretty fresh. We rented in Manali and then drove the Spiti valley from Manali in a counter clockwise direction to Kullu, Recong Peo, Nako, Puh, Tabo, Kaza, Keylong, and then up to Leh. The road is still not open so you have to do a diversion and head east and come in a different way. The roads are passable but they are working on spots like always. Leh is still without electricity so places are running generators most of the time for only a couple hours a day. Most of the hotels and guest houses are closed as there is no one there. It is very sad as when the tourist do not come and they need the money. There is plenty of destruction and people working on still finding the missing. No one will ever know the number of dead or missing from all of this. It is a beautiful area to visit and ride motorcycle. We did Khardung La pass and that road is fine. People are recovering but it will take years for it to recover.

**ilesmark** · #4 2 Sep 2010

Thinking about this some more, if you are on bicycles you probably need to plan carefully when you go over Zoji-La. You don't want to find yourselves getting run off the (VERY narrow) road by crazed truck drivers and plummeting thousands of feet to your deaths. Suggest you make yourselves the last to go over before the pass is closed for traffic going in your direction.

**Vaufi** · #5 2 Sep 2010

Thx for the infos. Since travelling by pushbike is at fairly low speeds (except when going downhill

) it is quite easy to go for cover if a ruck comes along.

**ssa2** · #6 3 Sep 2010

Well when we were traveling we met up with a family from that was Mother, Father, girl that was 13 and then pulling a small trailer with a 2 yr old in it. We ended up staying where they did for 3 different nights and they were doing fine. I would not worry about the trucks as they seem to give motorcycles and bicycles plenty of room. We met several other groups of people on bikes as well and they were all enjoying every minute of it. My hats off to anyone that can ride on that crap with a bicycle.