Thursday, April 5, 2007

Trip Log

A 4 day weekend..damm... this was too cool. We decided to go on a bike trip WE=me,Khader and Tandon.

We had planned to start off early around 4 Am but thanks to Mr Model Tandon we started at around 4:30..."How can i comb my hair in the dark" he said. Of course we had no further arguments.
The highway till Moradabad was good, Paved roads no traffic early morning. We wanted to cover as Much ground as we could on the plains, and reach the hills as fast as we could. Had breakfast in a roadside dhaba somewhere, Nice Aloo parathas.






Tandon N Khader w8tng to hog
We reached kathgodam in good time, i think by 10:30 odd we were there, waited a while with refreshments to begin the ascent and also cool off our bikes.
Reached Bhimtal in no time clicked a few there.

Bhimtal me and Tandon

There is something about the hills that always mesmerises me, to top it off if you are on your bike, cant ask for too much more.

The ride from Bhimtal to Mukteshwar Via Padampuri was awesome...Lush Jungles roads, no traffic, and the hills fresh with Rhododendron (Buransh) flowering. A special squash is made with these flowers


Lush Forests and no traffic...totally awesome


Just stop in such a place, to hear all the sounds its amazing





Reached Mukteshwar around noon 2:00 found a nice place to crash. It was on a cliff extremely windy and the view...just amazing...and food to match..we decided to have food in the open air under the Zillion's of stars visible (yes u cant see em in Delhi) and cold wind. unfortunately we didn't have good enough Cameras to capture the amazing night scenery. It was like a stars in the sky and stars in the mountain opposite, small villages with scattered homes.




Next Day we hit Nainital, and boy what an amazing road from Ramgarh to Bhowali, have never seen such an amazing piece of asphalt.

Naini



Spent a nice evening in Nainital, and after a hearty brekfast of Bun Tikki and aloo paratha headed off to Naukuchiatal for some paragliding.


The wind unfortunately wasnt on our side, it was too much in the morning to start, and too little in the evening to carry people above a certain weight..ahem..i dont want to say any more.

Lets Just say Tandon had a nice flight.

Tandon in flight



Another peacefull night in Bhimtal and early next morning we were off to delhi. Tandon, needless to say was the last one to get ready! sorry tandon this is my blog..hehe


Found a nice Dhada on the way, after an ass breaking road stretch, where we relaxed a bit.

and by 2:00 pm Sunday we were back in Delhi.






2 comments:

Vijyant said...

Awsome blog, pictures really added a lot to the imagination of the readers.

I feel like getting myself a bike to for the next trip.

Abhinav said...

Joshi, I never knew u cud write such well. Hats off dude !!!

However, the next time I'm going to blog and u'll find urself killed in it...

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