Manali to Leh

After my yoga teacher training course Carl and I hung out in Manali for a couple days. Manali is already pretty far north and a lot of the shops and hotels were shutting down for the winter/low season. Since we are crazy we decided to head even farther north where it is colder and even more things are closing for the winter. We talked to a couple travel agents and half of them said the road going north to Leh was closed, the other half said it was still open. One agent told us we could get a ride for the next night leaving at 1am. He told us it was 16 hours but we knew from talking to other travel agents that it would be at least 18 hours. We heard Leh was really beautiful, and there is some amazing trekking so we decided to book the journey and start mentally preparing for a crazy scary, bumpy ride.