Arrived in Delhi from Thailand, I met Manisha at our CS host Gautam. We went straight to buy the ticket for the first leg: Delhi to Manali. Waiting for the city bus, getting to the bus terminal close to the main railway station, buying the ticket and coming back took us almost 4 hours! Resting one night at Gautam\u2019s place was then very nice, I enjoy the dinner a lot!<\/p>\n
We took a night bus \u2018Volvo\u2019 from Delhi to Manali. The road was sometimes bumpy and once the bus hit the ground, but all in all, I could sleep some hours. It was raining in Delhi when we left it; it was even more raining in Manali when we arrived the 25th<\/sup> in the morning. Manali is already in the mountains, about 2000m high, and very green. The 2nd<\/sup> day was much better: we enjoyed the sun in the morning walking through the city and I then to some waterfall a little outside.<\/p>\n From Manali, there are at least 4 options to reach Leh by road (475km): the official state bus starts in the morning, you stay one night in a tent and come the day after around 6pm. The ticket costs 2000 Rs. You can try the local buses (with bank instead of seats) but getting a place in hazardous. You can hire a jeep and organize your over night yourself. Or you do it in one leg by mini bus starting at 2 am and arriving around 8pm. The later is the mostly used as every travel agency in the corner propose you this service. Although I would have preferred resting a night, we chose this solution for only 900 Rs. Not the best idea: the road is partially very bad and the bus very bumpy.<\/p>\n At ca. the km 200, a truck was down in the valley and 2 recovery vans tries to get it back. If it was fascinating in the beginning, the 2h needed by the rescue process were quite long!<\/p>\n The main motivation to go by road was to enjoy the marvelous landscapes. And indeed, it was amazing to change from a green area to a dry scene over two 5000m peaks, i.e. higher than the top of Europe. Already the highest altitude I have been, but to be beaten in the next days!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arrived in Delhi from Thailand, I met Manisha at our CS host Gautam. We went straight to buy the ticket for the first leg: Delhi to Manali. Waiting for the city bus, getting to the bus terminal close to the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","tag-nature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31eG3-4F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}