My First Trip to Delhi
Then we left the camp thanking the doctor and his assistant. The camps in sarchu had some budget options too, but they were not as cheap as darcha. We got a camp for 4 for 500 after bargaining a lot with the owner.It was just 2pm and Kunjan and Prasant were in bed.may be the doctor had given them sleeping peels to reduce the effect of AMS.They slept around 2pm and woke up around 10pm, had dinner, slept again to wake up 7 am in the morning the next day.Hardik was also tired and wanted sleep for couple of hours. That made me alone and I had half the day light with me to see and explore things.
After riding one more hour we reached Sarchu.It is a wonderful flat land of Travel agency in delhi some kilometers, that gives a relief to bikers like us who were struggling with the acute mountain conditions.There were lots of camps for the tourists to stay.that is a bit commercial place with luxury tents costing couple of grands per head.we had earlier decided to avoid luxury tents due to our IT-Guy salary.And also luxury didnt fit in to our genre of travel for the 15days.But our main aim was to get the army health camp and get kunjan into it for treatment.AMS had captured him by then. Also Prashant also feeling sick and getting the early symptoms of AMS.We saw a big red cross on a bottle green temporary wall.We had no doubt that, its the medicamp we were searching for.As soon as we entered inside the campus, a sense of protection filled me in. I knew that i am at a place where any danger had to pass Indian army before reaching me.
It was so relaxing being inside an army camp, as if you are in your home. you feel everything you see belongs to you.but you have to obey the rules to use them.like you can run around, click pictures. but you have to ask for permission. And the army guys understand you very well and help you with any thing possible within their boundary. Indian visit first time in india camp is a place where I felt I could demand for a favor.
The place was like a set of some mission game.Suddenly it started raining with big drops of rain. luckily we were already inside the camp.Kunjan was treated well there. The doctor was from karnataka and gelled well with Prashant. We had a nice time talking to him.There was also a heater made out of burning coals with fuel being supplied to the burner(may be lack of oxygen) via a salaine pipe.It was nice engineering to get rid of the cold there.He has given Kunjan few medicines and may be an injection. He has also got his fingers re plastered.Due to the fact the fact that Prashant was also feeling low he was also given medicines to reduce the syndrome. I clicked many photographs of the super beautiful landscape there.
So I first rode the bike with my camera and photographed for sometime.Just as when I was thinking to ride some more yards to get some better photos it again started to drizzle.I had to comeback to avoid a fever in high mountains.Then again the rain stopped, I rode some hundred yards and it again started raining. Finally I decided not to take the bike and move but to explore the area by foot and talk to some locals.But the only locals were the dhaba guys and the police from the Checkpost near by. I had some chat with a senior police guy and he favored me by putting my mobile and camera's battery to get recharged from the camps generators.The area was isolated and they dont see much of human in the off seasons. So when someone interacts with them, whos an outsider, makes them happy.
After riding one more hour we reached Sarchu.It is a wonderful flat land of Travel agency in delhi some kilometers, that gives a relief to bikers like us who were struggling with the acute mountain conditions.There were lots of camps for the tourists to stay.that is a bit commercial place with luxury tents costing couple of grands per head.we had earlier decided to avoid luxury tents due to our IT-Guy salary.And also luxury didnt fit in to our genre of travel for the 15days.But our main aim was to get the army health camp and get kunjan into it for treatment.AMS had captured him by then. Also Prashant also feeling sick and getting the early symptoms of AMS.We saw a big red cross on a bottle green temporary wall.We had no doubt that, its the medicamp we were searching for.As soon as we entered inside the campus, a sense of protection filled me in. I knew that i am at a place where any danger had to pass Indian army before reaching me.
It was so relaxing being inside an army camp, as if you are in your home. you feel everything you see belongs to you.but you have to obey the rules to use them.like you can run around, click pictures. but you have to ask for permission. And the army guys understand you very well and help you with any thing possible within their boundary. Indian visit first time in india camp is a place where I felt I could demand for a favor.
The place was like a set of some mission game.Suddenly it started raining with big drops of rain. luckily we were already inside the camp.Kunjan was treated well there. The doctor was from karnataka and gelled well with Prashant. We had a nice time talking to him.There was also a heater made out of burning coals with fuel being supplied to the burner(may be lack of oxygen) via a salaine pipe.It was nice engineering to get rid of the cold there.He has given Kunjan few medicines and may be an injection. He has also got his fingers re plastered.Due to the fact the fact that Prashant was also feeling low he was also given medicines to reduce the syndrome. I clicked many photographs of the super beautiful landscape there.
So I first rode the bike with my camera and photographed for sometime.Just as when I was thinking to ride some more yards to get some better photos it again started to drizzle.I had to comeback to avoid a fever in high mountains.Then again the rain stopped, I rode some hundred yards and it again started raining. Finally I decided not to take the bike and move but to explore the area by foot and talk to some locals.But the only locals were the dhaba guys and the police from the Checkpost near by. I had some chat with a senior police guy and he favored me by putting my mobile and camera's battery to get recharged from the camps generators.The area was isolated and they dont see much of human in the off seasons. So when someone interacts with them, whos an outsider, makes them happy.
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