Bike Ride to Khabeki Lake and Kanhatti

Here's another of my bike rides I undertook on Sunday 20th. The journey started at about 7:30am, five of us on three bikes, the destination was the Kanhatti garden in the famous Soun valley.

Both ways we did a total of about 150km ride. Following are the pics with the commentary.

Just as you are about to start climbing the hill, you pass through two gate-like pillars with a brief history of this passage:

The Kanhatti garden:



A natural spring in the garden:


Bikes in the parking lot:





Walking through the garden our way was blocked by this camel whose intentions did not seem too good so we changed our course:













We could see very small fish in this water but not big enough to be captured by the camera's eye:




The garden is pretty vast and rich with shady trees:


Here we enjoyed the cold water for some time:








Ready to head on your way to the Khabeki Lake:


Our rides:




The road:






The CD70 guys were too slow!!


Arrival at Khabeki Lake:


Old graves, I wonder if these are of the soldiers from the world war!


An old tree

Ride to the Jahlar Lake

On Sunday March 09, the three of us took this ride to the Jahlar lake in the Soun valley. We were riding my 125 and the friend was on his CD70. The journey began at about 8 o clock in the morning. Our route was Joharabad to Kathwai, Khoora, Nowshera, Surakki and then Jahlar.

Below are some pics with brief info on the journey..

On our way to Kathwai we stopped near the shrine on Dada Golra, thats what you can see in the background.

My friends:


Below is the pic of a historical well built by some king in the past. We couldn't be sure of its exact history:




Some people:-)


Another well we saw by the side of the road, even deeper:


The Mehria Hotel in Nowshera. We took tea here.


Some pics taken on our way from Suraki to Jahlar. I should mention that the trip from Suraki to Jahlar is steep so you have to be careful while doing the corners, while the trip from Jahlar to Suraki can be a tough time for novice riders and weak engines!!




A distant view of the Jahlar lake:




The Jahlar Lake:






A little fun is what such trips are all about..






In the middle of the pic you'll see some small mountains, it was soil mountain actually and gave a brilliant look, the pic does not do justice here:


We found a path to move closer..










We moved down from here and took some pics:






Back to Kathwai, we took lunch from a 'dhaba' here. Below is the pic of Kathwai Sarai, "Kathwai Inn" built in 1866 by the British government:




Parked our bikes under an old tree:


Some pics on our way back: