The first day of the ride. Woke up and headed to the Stok Gompa for the flagoff. After a breakfast of Maggi and coffee Col Wangchuk flagged off the ride and the entire unit started out.
I was in the Imperio trailing way behind, and caught up with the local DP and LP at Leh Gate. As expected, the riders were all broken up into separate groups, and already many had begun to take pit stops along the way.
Everyone finally caught up 2 hours later at Khardungla, which is the highest motorable road in India. We got some group shots together, and set off again. I left with the local LP and DP, and got a lead on the entire unit until North Pullu where road construction on a narrow patch of tarmac halted the convoy for about an hour or so.
The rest of the drive was smooth, and we got some very good tracking shots. We reached Tirit on time after lunch at Diskit, and I helped the LP install some lights around the bonfire area while our director, DP and group went to shoot at the dunes with the co-founders and Jawa gang.
There was a beautiful bonfire in the evening where Daniel, Faisal and the group jammed out. We had dinner around 11 pm, and turned in after the brand manager drunkenly played some Hindi pop rock tunes to a sleepy audience on an acoustic guitar. Slept pretty late, but slept knowing the first day shoot had gone as well as it could.
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