WAFT Adventure Club : Jhal Khad Trip 2008

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As soon soon as one enters Azad Kashmir area after crossing Kohala, especially on the bikes, the police starts to question. The try to identify your intentions, origin, legal documents, etc. One or two guys negotiate with them the rest wonder here and there.

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A snap of Kohala recreational point from opposite side of river.

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Adventurers sharing light time. While others buzy with AJK police

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Reached Muzaffarabad city. Stoped short of Garhi ban Chowk. Many motorcycle mechanic and spare part shops are available there. Its a buzy place

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Kashif had problem with his Horn. He wanted to sound like a bull in the mountains. He managed to get it right but, it again faded away as we went into the mountains.

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We all wanted to get checked one thing or the other. I had some missing problem. A mechanic helped in cleaning the fuel valve.

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Imran tried to solve kashif's problem by checking the grip.

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Although it was mid day the seniour guys opposed to have a full fledged lunch. Milk shake was the other option. as i had stayed in MZ for some time so i guided them to the shops.
Bikes are parked on the road outside the shop.

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Another shot of the same market. There are many shops of old boots and bags run by pathan or Afghani people around the juice shops.

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A view of Muzaffarabad from top while climbing for Garhi Habibullah. In the back ground one can view the white PC Hotel MZ which is under construction.

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Descending down to Garhi Habibullah. a beautiful city

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Now we are at ground level in Garhi Habib ullah. This is River Kunhar. One can go down and have a couple of snaps there.

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Garhi Habibullah. Local residents have made this partition in the fast flowing river Kunhar for their daily usage

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We reached the Balakot city some where at 1630 hrs. There is a Shell Petrol pump in the start of the city. All of us refueled there.We had our road lunch with 01 chapati and chappal kabab just to kill the hunger. All of us were waiting to reah Kiwai to have lunch *** dinner. These snaps show our stay at Balakot,

Wooden bridge just besides the main concrete bridge.

Concrete Bridge

Our Final stop over before entering kaghan Road

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Finally we had our full fledged Khana at Kiwai. It is our favorite place to stay, whenever we go to naran. after the earth quake the beauty of the place has deteriorated but still one could enjoy eating while dipping his feet in cold water.

Its fun to eat while you are tired. We deprived of full fledged food through out the journey.

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Then came an Obstacle. When we moved from Kiwai the night was falling. As we proceeded towards Kaghan it became darker. Suddenly one of the bike went into a small ditch resulting into tyre puncture.

Although we had all the accessories, but it became too difficult. We did our best to fix the puncture in pitch darkness. The only light we had was mobile Nokia 1100 light. Puncture was all right but we had badly bruised the tube while getting it out of the tyre and then putting in. It was of no use. We finaly decided to stay at the next coming place which was Mahandri. We did put up there.

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It was an ordinary hotel. Room rent charged per night was 500 Rs. We had no other option but to stay there. boys were tired and wanted to have rest. Our original plan was to stay at Kaghan. But with a broken bike and tired bodies, every body wanted to stay there. So we stayed.

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Next morning we moved to kaghan. It was decided to take breakfast at Kaghan. so we started for it. Following are some pictures of Natural Beauty before Kaghan.

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Logs

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Some more pics