Zanskar & Ladakh in June| our 2024 summer outing| Ep. 3 | Driving down Shinkhu La | Gorgeous stay! 

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Yessss, dear sis! 🤗🤗🤗

That’s right, Pacc! We goin 😍😍😍❤️❤️

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Thank you so much, dear Harman ☺️🤗

Well, yes, valleys are bound to be so in the summer, dear brother, especially the sandy Nubra. ☺️ Which is why we took on Zanskar; it remains cool throughout the year because it’s Ladakh’s closest region to the Western Himalayas and gets the maximum snow. Srinagar is much lower down so heat is a given. Being a cold desert, the days indeed feel hot because of insolation. Luckily, the cool winds that deflect from the peripheral mountains keep Leh moderate. Nubra doesn’t have such mounts around it, hence the heat. But you’ll find Zanskar pleasantly cool in this season as well. Cheers 🤗

Well then I’m afraid you’re going to be disappointed with this answer as well, dear Subrata 😀 because the gurkha is the prime reason why we’re able to pull off these expeditious outings with not a care on our minds! We just know each time that it’ll get us through. Granted people have had different experiences but ours has genuinely, and I mean ‘genuinely’ been delightful. We got this in April 2022, and 30K kms down the lane, we’ve pushed it in every possible terrain…even on cruel uphill tracks wherein once you commit, hitting the breaks or rethinking is not an option until you hit the top, and it’s always come through for us. On a couple of occasions the rear tyres got smothered: once in deep snow and the other time in deep sand. That’s when the manual differential locks came into play and pulled us as if by a magnet from above! 😃 The ride quality is very satisfying; you’re just rolling on highways with not a care. It’s surely not for those who want to dart past others because on highways, it begins to choke after 80, but the boost to that point is rather hearty because of the healthy torque. Interestingly, they’ve taken care of that too in the 2024 BS 6.2 variant that’s been juiced up to 140 bhp from 90 bhp that you see here. This is why the gurkha was always our choice. 😊 So like I said, dear Subrata, you may be disappointed but these are true feelings! I make car reviews on another channel of mine and I’d have punished the car for any serious shortcomings had there genuinely been any 🤗. It’s just that the company is often negligent of its parts and accessories. Apart from that, we don’t even mind the spartan interiors. In fact, we feel, that’s how a rugged 4 x 4 should be on the inside. Cheers 😊

@@Thehimtwain Well, I'm not disappointed. All I wanted was an honest opinion. I own Jimny automatic n a Fortuner manual 4x4. I know the shortcomings of Jimny. I've not found any fault in performance of the Fortuner so far. Earlier I had a Tata Safari 3.0 dicor. It had it's own flaws. All based on performance parameters. It's good that u r completely satisfied with your Gurkha's performance. Thank u anyway for ur opinion. By the way, what's the name of your car channel?

@@Thehimtwain Would you mind sharing a link to the other channel where you do car reviews?

Wow! Subrata, you’ve owned quite a fleet of off-roaders there 😍 It’s funny that we haven’t already met in Ladakh or Spiti 😃 Haha! Hoping to, soon ☺️ Oh well the fortuner is a proven machine 👌 no doubt! Well currently the channel is a mixed bag of this and that with a few car reviews but I’m trying to turn it into a complete car review channel. 😊 Here’s the link: youtube.com/@mohitsgoodstuffreviews?si=l5iJjvLd3oLmV-5y Thanks 😊

@zenwithzoey: here you go, brother ☺️ youtube.com/@mohitsgoodstuffreviews?si=l5iJjvLd3oLmV-5y It’s a mix bag right now, trying to slowly turn it into a car review channel ☺️