Day 8 :: Astore - Rama Meadows - Rama Lake - Babusar pass - Batakundi --> 221 KM
Morning at Astore was superb, we done with breakfast and start moving towards Rama Meadows/ Rama Lake at 9:45. Rama is very close to Astore, we reached Rama meadows at 10:40 AM.
To Reach Rama lake the only option is to hike, as path is not that wide also there was 2 glaciers comes on the route.
In start almost 300 meters, Track was little wider, so we took our Prado till there and rest was hike to the lake. we started to move upwards and It took us 50 minutes to reach at the Lake. one of our fellow discontinue the hike at first glacier (there were 2 glacier on the way) and moved back to the point where we parked the Ride. so now we were 4 at the lake. view of lake was different + Rama peak giving edge to the beauty of the lake. we left lake at 12:30 PM.
when we reached at the parking point, here comes another twist of the trip that earlier we crossed a small bridge that connect the track to Lake and Rama Meadows is just partially broken
so we quickly move towards the bridge. and it was little risky to crossed that bridge, so we decided to stay there until the bridge repaired, then we ordered Lunch at the meadows and offer Namaz and suddenly we saw the prado in meadows as chacha crossed the bridge with the help of local Police. Alhamdulillah.
we reached Chillas Zero point at 6:00 PM, cross Babusar Pass and stopped at Moon Restaurant in Besal/Besar. But on the way traffic was stopped at gittidas by police as there was a traffic jam at nearby Glacier. After 30 min police allow us to move so we reached to the traffic jam due to galcier. phr wohi hamain aqal to aani nahin. singal road pe 3 lanes bana k horn bajana aur batain karna 1 doosray ko. Allah hamain aqal de Ameen.
then apni madad ap k tehat, we tried to clear the Traffic Jam and move forward.
It was 10:50 PM we back on the road after done with Dinner. and reached Bata Kundi at 11:40 PM.
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