Some travelers are so stubborn that they don't turn back even in the face of steep odds, sometimes reaching the destination is the only goal they have.
Malari Tales is the log of a young lawyer from Delhi, who went on a ride on his trusted bike, Apache RTR, to Malari, a remote Himalayan village, near Indo-Tibet border.
His journey starts without any drama, and he reaches Joshimath after a grueling ride from Delhi.
The real adventure starts next day when he decides to go to the border village of Malari on his bike. After riding on bad slushy roads, zipping at high speeds on a smooth stretch of black tarmac, he reached a point where the road was block by a rock slide. Instead of returning back to Joshimath, the brave lad decides to ditch his bike, wear his helmet and trek up to the village in the fading evening light.
As the the light fades away the lawyer overcomes another, much bigger landslide, slips and stumbles on snow and ice, and some how manages to reach an army post, where after a serious interrogation his request for shelter is turned down.
So our hero again starts his march in darkness to the village ahead, and when he reached it ...he was surprised to find only a deserted village, with not a soul in sight, and every door padlocked with big iron locks...it was as if fate was closing one door after another, and testing his courage and patience.
His hopes for finding food and shelter dashed to the ground he walks around the village trying to find an open door ....but his luck doesn't stand...and he has to break a door to find shelter from the howling winds, numbing cold, in that eerily silent village, where the fear of the harsh elements, wild animals and ghosts... all seemed too real to ignore.
A real tale of adventure, and a man's courage, where he stands alone against the loneliness of the harsh and deadly terrain of high Himalayas...read this interesting and inspiring travelogue here .
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