Day 5

Day 5 – June 16:

Drass – Wakha

Stay: Tents (good)

We started from Drass and our first stop was the Drass War Memorial. We spent around 2 hours there. We were overwhelmed at the sights of Tololing, Tiger hill, Rhino horn, India Gate and several other points about which we had only heard before. Anger for the enemy and pride for our soldiers were the only two feelings I had. It is in fact sad to see war memorials for martyred soldiers dotting the roads everywhere there. I only wish that we didn’t have to build so many war memorials.

After this we moved forward towards Kargil. Had lunch there and started moving ahead. We took the old route via Lamayuru. We reached Wakha at 6 pm. It was getting cold with clouds all around and we still had to cross Namika la and Fotu la. Also riding at night was a strict no for me. Here I had to put across my opinion to Rahul and Abhisekh a bit strongly on stopping here rather than moving ahead (in fact I had a small altercation with Rahul). Anyways we decided to stay in Wakha. We found a tent camp, enquired and got a tent for us. After dumping our luggage and changing we came out to look around. Even though it was an unscheduled stop for us, I feel that it was good to have stopped in Wakha. Abhisekh and Rahul went on to climb a hill just for the fun of it, while I was near the tent clicking away. In some time it got windy and chilly and we returned to our tent. We had our dinner in the tent and went off to sleep.

Please find the pics here.