Kunzum Pass to Kaza..

Kunzum Pass is 122 km from Manali and is located at an altitude 15060 ft. It connects Lahul and Spiti Valley of the Himachal Pradesh.
It is also the home of Kunzum Mata and locals believe that you should cir-cum-navigate the holy place when your are passing the Kunzum pass for Good Luck.

 22nd August 2016: We left Chandra Tal for Kaza and on the way we came across the Kunzum pass..The mountains are not green but husky brown. The first thing you see even before you see the temple are the prayer flags, abundant prayer flags on the rugged path to the temple of the goddess..The wind blowing the prayer flags,.prayer in the air..the calmness..the silence..the emptiness..all giving rise to a divine feeling..A respectful feeling..An admiring feeling for the almighty for make nature so vivid ,so beautiful and so refreshing.

We offered our prayer to Kunzum Mata, tried putting coins on the rock with out it falling, (we all failed except my friend) and headed towards Kaza. The road is absent, so its completely off road and the entire ride is bumpy..its like being in one of those rides in the amusement parks, right-left-up-down all the way..The weather started becoming clear and we saw the blue sky..(mesmerizing and beautiful)..Though the UV exposure is very high still we all periodically can't keep our eyes of the beautiful blue sky which enhances the rugged nature;s beauty..The sky reveled us its utmost beauty in the coming days.

The rugged, off-road, bumpy,stomach churning ride finally brought us to the welcoming Spiti gate in Lossar..

Hungry and tired we had to fill our stomach..Omprakash suggested Singaling where we feasted on parathas..We used the restroom and got ready to head towards Kaza..We spotted desert rose..

The small habitat looks beautiful, it gives a feeling of 'out of country'.

Fuel for the body enabled us to carry our journey forward towards Kaza.

We were able to find a few screws for our bike from a local mechanic in Kaza..

Kaza was our night halt for the day, after an initial hunt we got a nice hotel named Hotel Deyzor..

Good night rest , great food,courteous staffs revitalized us for our onward journey.The hotel walls bear a lot of wise and befitting writings..

Only mobile network you will get in this part of India is that of BSNL, so if you are planning to explore this beautiful place be equipped with one..

The night sky exposed us to the galaxy of stars while the morning mountain view of the cold mountain took me and my imagination to some wild west movie sets...

We fueled our vehicle at the highest retail/retail petrol pump of the world @12270 ft Indian Oil petrol pump. We were surprised to see a lot of local Maruti 800 cruising seamlessly in this high altitude.

 Refueled body and vehicles started our onward journey towards Komic..