DAY 3 - UDR Ride - 12 July - PHALODI - JAISALMER

Today's morning started with a shock,while sleeping on khatiya..I slept over my mobile and its touch screen got broken.Damn,what is going to happen with my interview.What a start of the day.Had my morning tea at the dhaba but what  about the daily DO stuff :D.Filled water bottle from the dhaba in case of any emergency call  and started moving towards Jaisalmer.finally the call came and i started hunting for the place and finally i had to do it under a small bridge to avoid any unecessary attention :D.

Yeah,I made it

DAY 2 -UDR Ride - 11 July - CHITTAURGARH - AJMER - PUSHKAR - PHALODI

There is a saying about the Chittaurgarh Fort

"Taalon me Taal Nainital..Baaki sab Talaiyya
Raja me Raja Bhoj..Baaki sab Rajaiyya
Rani me Rani Padmini(or Padmavati !!)..Baaki sab Ranaiyya
Aur Garhon me garh Chittaurgarh..Baaki sab Gadhaiyya"

Today i am going to verify,how true is the last line.
To reach at the top of the Chittorgarh Fort one have to cross through zigzag paths interrupted at intervals by seven huge gateways(pols). They are named as Padan Pol, Bhairon Pol, Hanuman Pol, Ganesh Pol, Jorla Pol, Lakshman Pol, and Ram Pol.

One of the gateway

DAY 1 - UDR Ride - 10 July - Mumbai - Udaipur - Chittaurgarh

It was a lazy saturday and i was just lazing around from the morning.

Its been a while when i left my previous Job.
From the very morning and i was cursing myself for doing nothing.
I was sitting idle..eating..drinking..smoking..shitting.
In all wasting my self,money and time in the flush.

So all these events all toghether formed an unplanned ride.Now the question was where to go 

Packed my stuff and started rolling at 4 PM Saturday..Still undecided.I reached Western Express Highway where i had to decide which way and which places to go.If i go left i will be hitting NH8 and Rajasthan and if right i had to go thru the shitty traffic to reach the NH4 or NH17 for any Southern Soujourn.

In this way the laziest person in the whole planet (ya,that would be me) ended up visitng Rajasthan,MP,UP,Nepal,Uttarakhand and Spiti.

The moment i left Mumbai,i got heavy rains till the morning or i can say till Gujarat Border.even the rain suit i purchased in Ladakh gave up and i was all wet for whole night.

some relief i got from the rain,somewhere near to Daman

Day 4 Kushalnagar - Hassan - Tiptur - Hiriyur - Belgaum -Pune

In the morning time I went to the monastery again to notice what I have missed in the darkness last night. And here are few shots which justifies what I was about to miss

Day 3 - Gudalur - Wayanad - Coorg - Kushalnagar

Third day, last day of my long weekend. Tomorrow I have to be back in office..Which was highly impossible. Since I have come so far I did not wanted to miss the nearby beautiful places..Wayanad and coorg.So I decided to take sick leave..and trust me taking that is piece of cake :D

Last night I also had some conversation with my fellow friend anant(Pune)..He also advised me to cover the Gudalur - Wayanad stretch in morning time,as its very scenic.

So here I started, late as usual for today’s run...towards Wayanad.

People often gets confused by the name Wayanad, considering it as a place. Same case happened with me,i expected Wayanad to be a place like Dodabetta Or Ooty.But in Actual it’s a region..District. In which you can find beautiful and enormous tea gardens and places like edakkal caves-sulthan bathery.

Sulthan Bathery was just 60 kms from there, reached there in few hours. And I should say thanks to Anant for advising me to cover the gudalur - wayanad stretch in morning time. Encountered some very beautiful tea gardens along the road.

DAY 2 - Narsipur - Mysore - Bandipur - Ooty - DodaBetta - Gudalur

Got a early morning start today, very rare in my case .Mysore was another 90 Kms from here. Road conditions was very good. Around 20 Kms before it met the 4 lane highway. Right side was Madikeri and Left side was Mysore.

Reached Mysore around 9 Am. Enquired about the road leading to Mysore palace.

To my surprise city roads were all empty, almost NIL traffic. Reached Mysore Palace, parked my bike in the parking lot and headed towards the Palace gate. Gates were closed, I thought its 9:20 am only so the gates would open around 10 AM. Just to confirm I asked the gatekeeper that, By what time entry will be allowed for the tourists. He replied, Today the Palace will be closed till 2 PM because of the Dussera Pooja.What!!!...Why today,Why not some other day

Got very disappointed as I had heard a lot about the beauty of the Mysore palace.After munching so many KM's I am here to adore the beauty of the Mysore Palace and it is closed,Not FAIR.

Anyway,There's always a next time..Saying this to myself I clicked few shots from outside and started for Bandipur-Ooty.

Day 1 - Pune - Belgaum - Harihar- Shimoga - Kemanagunddi - Mulyangiri - Belur - Hailbidu - Hassan - Narsipur

Dusherra weekend..long weekend,which idiot in the biking world is going to miss this opportunity....to break free and ride to some beautiful places.


At least I am not one of them ...I started on Thursday evening around 6 PM.I have to continue on NH4 till harihar which is around 560 Kms from Pune.

40 kms before Satara..when Khambatki ghat ends I stopped for Dinner at my favouraite place to have the regular food.Yes,Sev Bhaaji and Chapati.This guy makes some very tasty and yummy Sev bhaaji.

Started rolling towards Satara after the heavy Dinner break.
Somewhere before Dharwad