Road to Kaza

Too many quotes I have heard about travelling but this one excites me the most " Mountains calls us all the only difference is what we say back" . I have heard this on a commercial of Royal Enfield bike and that day I said this to me that I am never going to say no.

So this is the trip which started on April 29th for which we have planned on April 28th. Yeah! we planned it in a day suckers.

All with the planning 

So lets not wait anymore and start the trip. 

We started our trip on April 29th. We did a little prior research to it but results of that did not came that well for us. As we come to know that the roads which leads to Kaza via Rohatang Pass and Kunzum Pass were closed so I ve informed about it to Prabhjeet in hope that we are going to postpone our trip to first week of may but that did not happen. I do not know why he was so obsessed with Kaza and key monestry, but I think the last trip he went to with his colleagues to this some place in Himachal has something to with this. Whatever?! I never tried to know the reason for it. All I can see is the obsession in his eyes for this trip, so we started looking for other ways to go into this valley.

THE OTHER WAY

So I get into the serious mode and my thought was " he wants Kaza so he will get Kaza". I was quite aware about this other way through which we can go to Kaza but that was the last thing I wanted. If any of you has guessed it you are right I am talking about via Shimla via Reckong peo to Kaza.

You must be thinking that why this could be the last thing I wanted? The reason for this is that I have heard too many stories from my Himachali friends that how ruthless and rough this way is ( stories are going to be in my next blog )  and moreover if we go through this road we have got to travel extra 9 hrs to reach Kaza. So we tried to find out the availability of buses  from Shimla to Kaza and that did not go too well. We came to know that there is no direct bus from Shimla to Kaza. The only way is that we travel to Reckong Peo by a hired taxi or HRTC bus and from there one bus runs to Kaza at 0700 hrs in the morning. Just one f'king bus are you kidding me, I am not going on this trip. I mean can you see how much planning this trip needs and we do not have any time for that. But then in back of my head voice over played " he wants kaza, so he will get kaza" . 

So like always we planned every thing on our motto which we have been using since our freshmen year of college " WE WILL SEE" . So next thing was to see the weather condition of the place and you will not believe the temperature google showed us was max: 04* C and min: -09*C. I have never experienced that cold weather. So just to confirm I made few calls to the hotels in Kaza from them thankfully I found out that conditions are not that bad its pleasant during the day though quite chilling during the night. After seeing that temperature I have realizes something that there is something wrong with us I mean usually a person should get a little afraid after seeing those weather conditions, but believe me we got super excited like " HELL!! YEAh!! we are going to freeze and die" . 

So we overlooked everything and Prabhjeet reserved the tickets for our bus to Shimla.

Next: It starts.