Day 11: Manali to Bilaspur

It rained heavy, real havy that night at Manali. Our plans of visiting Rohtang Pass in an Innova had to be called off early in the morning.

It took us a while to decide, but at 1pm, we started out journey down the hills from Manali. It was still raining a bit, and the river by our side had very heavy current! We drove down and in about an hour reached a place where the river is nearly at the road level. The edges of the road had been made safe by a tall wall, which didn't allow the river water to flow to the road. A few kms further down, we however saw a place where the road was submerged in water for a short distance - 20-30 m or so and the road repair works were in progress. I let a local car drive through it and realised it shouldn't be too much of a problem. It was easy, the right side of the car was in water, but nothing too deep to worry about.

We continued our drive further and by evening reached Bilaspur. We found a hotel there and stayed for the night - on Day 11, we drove 171 kms only, but it did take good 5 hours of driving to get to Bilaspur.