I woke up around 4:45 am as I wanted to take a few pictures of the Lake around sunrise. There was just one photographer from Mumbai awake around that time. We spoke for a while as we took pictures. I was slightly late by a few seconds to take the picture of the first sun rays falling on the Lake. Oh well!
We left the campsite after breakfast. Wanted to hit the 3 idiots shooting spot where Phunksuk Wangdu is flying his kite. 
The 3 idiots movie has given such a boom to the tourism industry here. The restaurants are named after them, when you talk to locals, they mention that tourism picked up after the movie. Till then, mostly westerners used to visit Ladakh. We captured some of this 3 idiots mania.Shweta and I decided to ride non-stop to Leh and we moved ahead of the lot. Just stopped for tea at the Chang La top. Every time people saw my MH12 number, they asked if I shipped the bike. The look on their face -- once they hear I rode all the way -- was hard to capture in pictures. I have registered it permanently in my memory.
On the way, we took pictures of the local animals you see.
We weren't quite sure which ones are friendly and which ones aren't. Hence decided to keep some distance; especially from the big ones.
Shweta and I reached the Leh Market around 3:30 pm. We had skipped lunch and hence were very hungry. We stopped at the same place we had lunch yesterday -- La Terrase or something. Decent food but very slow service. Hunger made us ignore all the fallacies and we got back to the guest house around 4:30 pm. We had plans for Shanti Stupa but we were supposed to leave for Khardung La and Nubra Valley tomorrow; hence decided to take some rest.
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