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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow video of a travel blog to Leh, India by TravelPod blogger Caprile. See this TripWow and more at tripwow.tripadvisor.com New Delhi - Chandigarh - Manali - Leh "Itinary : New Delhi - Chandigarh - Manali - Keylong - Pang - Leh Dates : 28th October to 2nd november 2007 mileage in India : 2000 km mileage so far : 8850 km After a good night rest in New Delhi where we shared a room in the intercontinental, we headed north where we stopped first in Chandigarh for a night before reaching Manali. The road from Chandigarh to Manali is superb! I thought that the 108 road in Thailand was as good as it gets if you take road condition, scenery, traffic and turns in consideration but this Chandigarh-Manali road is at least equalling it in my ranking, or even better maybe! On our way to Manali, we stopped on the road when we saw a party going on...on the top of a bus! Had no choice but to join and it reminded me the good old school days... We arrived in Manali at around 6 pm and it gave me just enough time to visit the town and try to find someone that could give me a few information on this loop that I was planning to do the next day. Kevin stayed back in the room to rest. So I quicklyshifted into my "hiker" outfit that I wisely invested in when in Kathmandu...Manali is at 2000 meters in altitude and it was 0 degrees when we arrived at 6 pm...I first went to the lobby to enquire the front desk manager about this road. As we were discussing, he interrupted the...