Journey Dates 9th June to 21st June.
Journey from Karachi to Hunza on Motorcycle (GS150, 2014 Model)
From Hunza Back to Gilgit on Motorcycle and then Took a Bus till Lahore.
Lahore to Karachi on Airplane.
4 People on 2 Bikes
I'll do my best to write a true to events and interesting story of the journey i had.
Let's me start with saying, it was an "EXPERIENCE" indeed. There were some sick days, some happy days and some agonizing days as well, but at this moment when i'm writing this, i want to be back on the road, ready to do it all again.
So we started our journey at around 1AM on the night of 9th June. We left from Malir Cantt link road to Super Highway. Stopped at a restaurant to have dinner and plan the route and such (We hadn't really made a plan and left in rush.) We left the restaurant around 3 ,i personally count this as the real start of the journey. Next stop was Hyderabad, we reached there around 5 for Tea but then i found out my Gear lever was lose, i tightened it and turns out the whole thing was busted because the ridges on gear rod had worn out. Well, i cut a tin can to fix the whole thing and it actually worked pretty well. Okay... So the sun is coming out, we're still at Hyderabad and our next location is Sukkur that's about 5 hours more to go. We start the journey soon because we don't wanna travel in the day too much due to heat because as we learned that it did really get pretty hot around 9AM and the heat started to burn our feet around 11 (We didn't make it in 5 hours).
We reached Khairpur around 12, hadn't had any sleep so we were feeling very tired. Stayed at a hotel for the day, had lunch and slept for about 4 hours (That was a mistake, not getting enough sleep) We started to tie our stuff back on the motorcycle, oh i think i forgot to mention that another friends was gonna join us from here. Till here we were both riding solo. So now it's three people, and a long road ahead. From Khairpur we faced a few problems, but those were purely coincidental and logistical since someone thought they were going on a 4 Month Journey to a place where there's nothing to wear and eat. We spent a little time fixing that problem (and by a little time i mean about 2 hours). So now it's about 7pm and we're hardly outside Sukkur, we rode for about an hour and made another stop, which was supposed to have been for 15 mins and went on to be over an hour. Night was long and we still had a long way to go, we thought we'll somehow make it to Lahore by morning. We.Thought...
We rode till 2AM and made our first stop somewhere along SadiqAbad (Not sure, it was late night we were super tired) We had tea and biscuits and after short rest got on our way.
It was too hot on the way after the morning light. We made many stops along the way for water, tea and such refreshments, but due to fatigue and poor planning (and following even the poor plan) we had to make a stop at Bahawalpur around 11AM of 10th June.
Again we booked a hotel room that cost us around 2000 (same as Sukkur), rested there, took showers and slept for about 4 hours (For some reason we couldn't sleep well (maybe different places?)
We left Bahawalpur around 5pm and made a stop for an early dinner at some Restaurant along the road. One the road again, we kept going, our goal was reach M-4 (i know... ) and then take the M-3 all the way to Lahore, and we did get there, around 10pm, i think, maybe later. But we had to turn back all the way to "KACHA KOH" because they weren't any motorcycles on the highway ( we should've known... I know).
Well, that added a little more time to the journey and we made another stop at KACHA KOH, had some refreshment and rest on the very comfy chair in the restaurant that was more like a park. The third friend was too tired to continue on the motorcycle so we started to look for bus to take them all the way to Lahore, because of that we had to make many.. many .. maaanyyy stops to look for bus tickets but we couldn't find any because it was peak season (4th day of EID or 5th i think) well, we kept stopping at one stop after another and then finally we found a seat at a station near Sahiwal, the time was something like 4AM. Now it was just the two of us solo on a motorcycles ( Did i mention that the other guy had a Bandit S 650) We made a plan to ride for 100kms before making any stop and that's what we did. We made it to lahore around 7AM. This is it for now.
