7:00 am breakfast followed by a 4 hour drive and into the mountains to Chamba - started cycling at 1:30 after asking the guide how much height we would gain - 200 metres he said!! and so we decided to take a detour along a dirt track which turned out to be a dead end, the mobile we had been given was soon ringing with Acul the guide asking me to turn back.
After tht an uphill and it gets hotter and hotter and a after 2 hours a stop at a rope bridge over the river , which we cycled over and then watched a wedding processession from the village to see the bride get in the back of a public bus and and the groom on the roof!
We continued up and up and up till eventually we came across the car and a tea stop. A lettle futher on we came to a parting of the road - Chris remarked, "there is no way I could go up there" sure enough we were to go that way, up one of the steepest valleys you could emagine. On the say up people were coming out to see us and ask what we were doing - eventually it was so dark we had to stop (and got a lift to the top at 2150M al Balmour.
The cook had arrived by then and tea consisted of am amazing currey and two bottles of Godfather, a particularly henious brew and a really good nights sleep.
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