Boring Bangalore to Rocking Goa

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Beer, beach, bike, party, food, music, tanning, hippies are the few words that come in my mind when I think about Goa not to forget vacation.
After shifting to Bangalore, I thought of going again to Goa and this time a Volvo bus took me from Bangalore to Goa.




Day 1: 24th October – After settling in at Anjuna Beach resort near Anjuna Beach – also known as hippy beach of Goa, we found ourselves sipping beer in a couple of hours at beach side café - San Francisco’s.

Anjuna Beach resort had a nice swimming pool, average ac/non-ac rooms, friendly people, Activa can be hired from there, a library and a cafe.

I was there some 2 months back but this time sun replaced clouds, Activa replaced my Bullet, a lot more people and a little costlier menu at restaurants. After a few hours walked around flea market at Anjuna, which was a lot cooler than I could think. As I see the sun set, music at U-V bar set the mood and a stroll on beach sand relaxed the body.

Not much that day before a dive in resort’s swimming pool, a few beers, some nice dinner and a lot of sleep.



Day 2: 25th Oct – This day we set out for Arambol beach, which was crowded (still less compared to other beaches). We went straight to sweet water lake and had a bath there as well as at the beach. A Himachali guy – Babloo’s shack looked the best for coconut water, beers and food and we relaxed there for a while. The restaurants in Goa take a little longer than usual, good for us to just relax and wait for a delicious sea food platter.

Arambol beach is very nice to swim and is less crowded. I liked everything about Arambol – markets, beach side shacks, small guest houses. It is so much in Goa, still away from the crowd but is almost 40-45 minutes drive from other happening beaches of Goa. On the way back, spent some time in dark at Vagator beach.
After coming back, we ended our day after a nice dinner and hooka.

Day 3: 26th Oct – We got up late and after finishing our breakfast and spending some time at pool, went to Baga beach. I have been there before also and contrary to others, I don’t like this beach at all. It looks like another Juhu beach or Marina beach and we immediately decided to move from there, to another beach I could never like – Calangute. There were water sports on peak and we wanted to experience some, but on seeing the crowd we were really disappointed and we moved away from Calangute. Just for a change, went to fort Agauda and another mistake of being landed up in the middle of a thousand strong crowd there.

Just as we were coming back from Agauda, we went to Sinquerim beach. To my surprise, it was a really nice beach, safe to swim and we enjoyed parasailing and Jet skiing there – Rs 2000 for 2. I did it for first time so enjoyed it, though it is nowhere close to adventure. After spending a lot of time there, we went to a nice restaurant in that area and tried lot of sea food, chicken with beers.
After coming back to our resort, we rested for some time and then thought of giving Goa parties a try. I have been to a trance party earlier at U-V in Anjuna which was nice, but this time we went to Club Cubbana. It was a loud party but for some time we really enjoyed, just gave ourselves completely to music and nothing else.


Day 4: 27th Oct: Was our last day at Goa, after checking out from resort went straight to small Vagator beach and really enjoyed swimming in the beach, spotting jelly fishes, relaxing at the beach side and a lot of beers. Met some more friends there and did some liqor shopping.
I checked out some more places at this beach as we liked the greenery, peaceful surroundings, being on hill top and just some 30 steps or so down to beach.
In the evening returned Activa to Dominic and left Goa with great memories and a promise to return back soon.

Some quick tips:

Activa on hire – Rs 200 per 24 hours.

Petrol price – 58 Rs litre when it is 76 per litre in Bangalore.

Party places – Club Cubbana, U-V bar, Curlies.

Water sports - At Sinquerim beach.

Some nice places to stay – Shalom Guest house at small Vagator. Rooms ranging from 700 to 1500. Contact – 0091 9881578459
Babloo for bamboo huts on rent at Arambol beach – 0091 9405932651.(250 – 300Rs for 2)

Thalassa cottages at small Vagator . Contact – 0091 9850033537 for nice air conditioned cottages with deck. Ranging from 1000 (non ac) to 2500 Rs.

Anjuna Beach Resort at Anjuna Beach.

Cochi chos resort at Vagator with nice pool side bar – Rs 2000 for very nice room.

Ok, so if you are planning for Goa, go ahead and enjoy. If you need to ask anything, leave a comment and I will try to help.

Cheers!

Cyclone Neelam and my bullet....

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Once again, I have arrived at a juncture where I am going to listen to my instinct. I have to ride my bike from Hyderabad to Bangalore on Sunday - 4th November, with reports of cyclone Neelam still doing the rounds. I am not afraid, but excited. Just a weather update - It was raining continuously from last 2 days in Bangalore and heavily in Hyderabad. So far, everyone advising against riding in incessant rains.
But more than anything else, I need my bullet here in Bangalore with me:
1) To get rid of pathetic transport system of my company where my cab drops me to office 30 minutes before trip time and picks 20 minutes after trip time and explaining everyday to cab driver about my address location in Hindi is difficult.
2) To start riding and exploring places beyond Bangalore.

At one stage, I got a little influenced by people around and called Bharathi Travels and ask them for canceling my ticket (from Bangalore to Hyderabad). But the person on other side confirmed me in affirmative tone that no bus will be affected due to rains and water, though there are very few people than usual traveling this Friday. And it gave me a reason - when a bus can go in bad weather, a bike can also go. Just that we need experienced hands for both.

And I will reach Hyderabad on 3rd November, spend time in checking my bullet (hopefully it should be fine), fix battery, meet Wanderers(my bullet club in Hyderabad), get my left overs and pack them properly behind my bullet and will start on Sunday for Bangalore, some 600 kms in total. So far I had only heard about bullet - only bike on whih you can move your house and your wife. I will experience the first half of the statement this time.

Signing off now, not praying Neelam to go less fierce, but to give me more strength to deal with it.
Will update after returning. Ok, I am back. Covered 580 kms in 10 hours. I started at sharp 5 am from Hyderabad and reached my room in Bangalore at 3pm. The highway was one of the best in India, with literally no potholes and full metal road. There was very less traffic and it was more about speed than skills to ride on such roads.
And there were no rains at all, so I could not sing my rain ride song:
"It's gonna be lots of rain, it's gonna be no sun;
I wanna go ride again, it's gonna be so fun"

Took 2 break s, one for dosa and tea and second for tea and biscuits in addition to water, susu and petrol breaks :)
Now that my bike is with me I am very excited to explore more of South. Very soon I will cover Coorg, Gokarna, Puducherry, Wayanad, Kanyakumari and a lot more.

Murud-Janjira: A place to escape from Mumbai Madness

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There is lot of information on internet about Murud and about Janjira fort. It is easy to decide the destination Murud and even easier for people to reach by car or for local Mumbaikars to take the sea route.

But this post is aimed for all those who don't know the shortest, scenic and cheapest way to reach Murud from Mumbai.

There are 3 legs in this route, which I will describe here.
1st : Mumbai to Mandwa(sea route)

2nd : Mandwa to Alibag (Bus: Included in ferry ticket)
3rd: Alibag to Murud (Bus)

In Mumbai, first thing you need to do is reach Gateway of India. On the left of it is the place from where you can board a ferry to Mandwa. There are 3 service providers: Ajanta (75Rs ticket), PNP Maritime services(120Rs) and Maldar(100Rs Upper deck)

Once you reach Mandwa, just sit in a bus and relax for 30 minutes. And from Alibag, take another bus which will take you through Kashid beach, get down at Murud. I stayed at Tavsalkar's hotel in Murud (in sea facing peaceful cottage). I really enjoyed the sea food, the high tides at night, swimming in sea during day(I was surprised to see the sea shrinking like anything), a ferry to Janjira fort, having a few beers and sleeping a lot.

So what are you waiting for, be there at Murud and enjoy getting away from Mumbai madness.
Cheers!

Srisailam Ride with Wanderers!

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I joined a bullet group in Hyderabad around 2 months back named as Wanderers. I met the group at the right time, when I was getting fed up of Hyderabad, climate, natureless places and no same minded guys. Thanks to Dilip, my friend who introduced me to Wanderers.

A weekend ride was planned for Srisailam and it took me no time to jump in. I was riding with such a large group with mostly unknown riders for the first time.

Route : Hyderabad to Srisailam via Vikarabad
Ride : All bullets
Riders : All bulleteers
Distance: 230-240kms
Time: Gross time(while going) 12hours, Net time(while returning with less breaks) - 5 hours

The first leg of ride was really disappointing for me, a big group assemble after a long delay and I waited all alone on the road for more than 1 hour. At that time, I questioned myself - Why the hell I am waiting here? I should leave. But then I thought of giving this group ride a try. At next stop I witnessed some lazy breakfast moments and I was further disappointed.
At that time I felt good when I saw Lalit Bhai(founder of group)  asking riders to hurry up and start.

So finally after some 2 hour delay we started off. I called it as a fursat ride as we were stopping for anything and everything. Be it tea, crap, fag, pics, visiting farms, eating or just for nothing at all.
My riding bug was tickling my bones and at more than 1 occassions I was tempted to leave the group and ride by myself. But somehow, I wanted to give myself another chance to get along well with the group.

As I have heard from my rider buddies - "When you are in a group, you are as fast as the slowest member of the group" I understood the meaning behind it for the first time.

And as we cruised further we reached the Ghats which was surprisingly good. And from there we did some offroading inside Srisailam Tiger Reserve. It was then when the rains painted our bulls red with the mud and the temperature dropped down. I was in need of it more than anyone else.

As we crossed further, my bike's tank dried up. don't know how but it was a gross miscalculation. Thanks to Rahool, I was shortly riding again.
A guest house inside temple premises was booked so we rushed up to avail that facility. And as we reached the temple, we were joined by a part of the group after sometime.
Srisailam temple - for some it was Lord Darshan, but for me I didn't even knew that there is some temple there and I went purely for riding. There was a party at Eaglepenta which I didn't joined along with Raju, Dilip & Anil. I really enjoyed conversations with Anil - who is an antique/unique collector. I was impressed by the way he was pursuing all that he wanted to.

Srisailam temple was supposedly grand and Lord Darshan would have got all the peace, seekers wished.
But for me it was a strict no to buy a balcony ticket and watch Lord. I was against this paid up Darshan so I preferred staying back. If I would have bought a 200 bucks ticket to see lord, I would have definitely felt - Is Lord too weak to be confined within a temple? And why the hell is he prefering people with more money? Is he biased? Or he loves development with that money? Is he a master or a slave? Or maybe he is just a myth. Too many questions for my little mind, so I stayed back.

The riders group arrived and completed darshan at Srisailam temple while I walked around in the town with Raju, had Dosas(too many) and tea. We waited for group to re assemble and start for return ride.
The return ride after Eaglepenta was very quick, we did some 240 kms in 5.5 hours to Hyderabad which included 2 stops and riding in Ghat road. There at the Ghat road, you are riding at 90kmph and suddenly you see a big speed breaker, it's hard to control bullet so a tip here for all budding riders, 'Never let your bike go out of control. Be it at 20 or at 100kmph, as long as it is in your control you are safe.'

In Srisailam Tiger Reserve

So far so good, will update more pics soon.

White Dhanaulti - A trip to remember

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Dhanaulti is a small hill station, popular for snow in winters and clean environment with big trees. It's around 85 kms from Dehradun, a detour 3 kms before Mussorie on right will take you to Dhanaulti after 57kms.

Dhanaulti is in lap of nature at an altitude of 2286metres  and can be reached either via Dehradun or Rishikesh - Chamba - Dhanaulti route.

In Dhanaulti there are a few good hotels/guest houses where one can enjoy a leisure evening with friends and rum. I always want to go there during snow fall as the whiteness is at its best at that time. During monsoon months - June to September, it is lush green though the access roads become rough and is not easy to drive on. January - March are the best months to be there.

From Dhanaulti, one can go to Surkanda Devi temple which offers a beautiful view of Rishikesh, Mussorie & Chakrata. A trip to Chamba and Tehri dam can be done as well.
Best is walk towards Dhanaulti - Chamba road and you will very likely spot wild jackals. I spotted 2 on the road. I stopped my bullet and before I could take my camera they fled away in jungle.

If someone is interested in knowing more about Dhanolti, ask me. I will be happy to reply back. Cheers!

Some of the pics of my bullet and Dhanaulti:

My Freedom Ride- August 2012

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3rd August 2012 : A vague plan came into my mind on how to utilize my off days from 11th to 20th August.

Kept on thinking for the whole night - where to go, whether I should ride in monsoons or avoid.

4th August evening : Spoke to Vaibhav who was in Mcleodganj on a solo ride and he updated me about rains there. Suddenly it reminded me of my ride from Batal to Rohtang Pass in 2009 when I had little rain protection gear and in freezing cold I managed to ride in heavy downpour. I don't know monsoon in South but that gut feeling knocked my brain and I thought - "When I could do it there, I can manage anything here".

Now my next concern was to complete my riding gear for rains and spot any random places on map and raid the roads connecting those places.
The places I picked were - Mumbai, Goa, Hampi.

So as of now, places I chose are - Mumbai, Goa, Hampi and anywhere from Hampi depending on rains, time, money left etc.

Mode of transport - Bullet Electra 5s: HR-03 J 2190. If you see me anywhere on this, stop me. I am a friendly guy :)
I call it as 'My freedom Ride' as I don't know anything about those routes and I will go there to explore, I haven't done any room bookings or anything else.

5th August: I got a rainsuit, riding boots from an army shop. I am thankful to Rahool Saxena and Ashish Agarwal for taking me to Lal Bazar - Secunderabad  to get some stuff.
Will get my bike from service station in 1-2 days, then I will complete my tool kit, get white and black riding glasses, clean my saddle bags, clean my riding jacket, chose what I have to carry along and by 9th August (Thursday) I will be ready for the ride.
I am going to start on 11th August - 3:30 am from Hyderabad to Mumbai. I know the road from Zaheerabad (from where we took right for Bidar ride) goes straight to Solapur and from Solapur, there is a way to Pune and from Pune I will find the road to Mumbai. If rain gods are kind enough, it will take me some 12 hours to reach Mumbai.

6th August : I told about my ride to a few people in office and they were amused. Don't go, will you be able to ride alone?, take a pillion rider to ride in turns, go with a group, go by train/bus, it is not safe in monsoons are a few comments I have got so far. Apart from a few rider friends, no one really can understand the zeal to ride, to get lost and the fun to ride solo.

9th August: Tool kit ready, bike ready. Packing left. Waiting for Saturday morning, would be difficult to think about anything else now till the start of ride.

10th August: By now everything was ready, had dinner with teammates at Ella hotel and came back to sleep. It was 10pm and I set the alarm for 2am.

11th August: The sme alarm ring sounded very pleasant that morning. At 3 am sharp I was on the road. Due to ongoing holy month of Ramzan there was some comotion outside. I hit Zaheerabad road in no time and crossed Sangareddy, Zaheerabad, left AP, entered and left Karnataka and entered Maharashtra.

The route I took was:

Hyderabad - Zaheerabad - Umarga - Solapur - Pune - Lonavala - Khandala - Panvel - Mumbai
Distance: 750kms
Time: 13.5 hours
Vehicle: Bullet Electra 5s

There were a lot of lorries but I was overtaking them easily. Only trouble was ruthless volvos from opp. side as they almost pushed me off the road every time. It was really a nice ride in dark, I wished the morning could be delayed by another couple of hours.

The road sa few kms after Zaheerabad had rough patches not allowing me to touch 80kmph consistently.
With sun rise the weather turned pleasant and I entered green Maharashtra leaving behind all rough patches and the road was fantastic.

I too my first break at Setfal, leaving Hyderabad 350 kms behind at 8:30 am for water, tea, poori-sabzi-aloo at  a roadside Dhaba. The Bullet, the Wanderers flag and military boots made me look like some army guy.

After leaving Setfal at 9am, I maintained good speed and timings upto Pune. There were  few drizzles which gave country side roads a clean look, but at Pune heavy downpour awaited me.

A few lines that came straight from my heart at that point was:

"It's gonna be lots of rains, it's gonna be no sun...
I wanna go ride again, it's gonna be so fun.."

I sang these lines as rains continued all the way for my onward journey. From Pune I crossed Lonavala by NH-4 and stopped at Khandala for tea and Vada Pao as lunch.
Lonavala, Khandala offered beautiful vistas in monsoons lot of greenery, water falls and tourists. Tried to click some pictures but got mostly clouds.

At 2:30pm I left Khandala and accidently took Mumbai - Pune expressway. I was stopped by a police SUV and I told them I lost my way. An interesting conversation followed:

Cop - "2 wheeler allowed nahi hai"
Me  -  " I lost my way sir"
Cop - "Which country"
Me - "All over India"
Cop - "Ok, Colaba"
Me - "Yes"
Cop - "Go straight, take a u -turn and take exit road a few metres ahead on left"
Me - "Thank you, your name" and shook hands with him.
Cop - "Ganesha"

Cool, I thought. He mistook me for a foreigner wanting to go toColaba and let me go easily :)
At Zakir Nagar in Mumbai, bike got punctured. Luckily, there was a puncture shop nearby so I got no chance to open my tool kit.

For completing day 1 ride successfully, discipline was the key. Less stops, constant speed and bullet performed nice.

Some pics:

After Zaheerabad @Karnataka - Andhra border



Abandoned petrol pump

Time for fresh air

Wanderes - Bulleteers of Hyderabad club

Time to wear rain suit

Outside Dhaba in Khandala

Clouds and the falls playing hide and seek

That's me posing

Mumbai - Pune expressway

After reaching Mumbai, I stayed there till 15th August. Got brake shoes rubbed at a workshop and a day before leaving for Goa, got a lunch invitation by a friend Hussain in Chiplun (on NH-17, 250 kms after Mumbai).

16th August: I started for Goa at around 7am, crossed Thane and Panvel in rains. I was going very slow and almost took 3 hours to cover 100kms before halting for breakfast somewhere.

The route I chose:
Mumbai - Panvel - Chiplun - Ratnagiri - Goa all on Mumbai - Goa road or NH-17.

The ghat road started and slowly the ride started becoming more exciting. I always thought of doing Mumbai - goa on my bike and here I was.

I reached Chiplun at 1 in afternoon and was greeted by Hussain, though he was on a fast but he made sure I eat a lot of food. It was a good afternoon with him and we discussed about old university days. And then went for a small round of Chiplun, visited some old cave there and was on highway again.

From Chiplun, I continued almost non stop, took a wrong road towards Kolhapur that wasted some time. The rains continued and I kept moving ahead. No tea, no stops - only water and chocolates for myself and petrol for bullet. And as I entered Goa in dark, I was greeted by 2 bullet riders.

"Welcome to Goa, from Haryana?"
I could only say - "Yes" :)

They asked me where I would stay and offered me a place, but I already told a friend - Pavan from Wanderers who was there with friends that I would be staying with them. So, at 10pm I looked for place near Calangute and in short time found myself at beach with a couple of beers. After lot of rains, the sky was clear and I sat there till 2:30 am admiring the silent beach at night with beers.

Some pics from Mumbai - Goa highway:

A beautiful lake on the way

Had to push my bullet a lot to go up there

Finally up there

My friend Hussain

Changed quickly otherwise no one would have let me inside their decorated drawing room :)

Other side of river is the place where crocs live @ behind hussain's backyard

Back in Riding mode

Old caves outside Chiplun

Beautiful countryside road

17th August :
After having breakfast with Pavan and his friends, we went and relaxed at Anjuna beach where I met a friend Manali from Mumbai. Kept on roaming on bullet and just relaxed for the whole day. Obviously had a lot of fish there :).
At night, had party with Pavan and his friends at Baga beach.

18th August :
Went to Aarambol and sat at a very nice beach shack with good music and peaceful location, away from hustling crowd of Goa. Walked to 3 more beaches in line and to sweet water lake.

Place where I stayed near Calangute

Outside Anjuna beach



Anjuna beach from U-V bar



19th August:
On this day, I rode from Goa to Hampi, which was the best riding experience on this whole ride. I was a little confused on what route to take from Goa to Hampi and after asking a few people, checking google maps I took the route:

Calangute (Goa) - Ponda - passed through bhagwan mahaveer national park on my right - Collem - Ramnagar - Hubli - Hospet - Hampi - Gangavati - Virupupara Gaddi(known as Hampi island) and stayed there.
It was very simple, just after Mandovi river bridge on Panji side, take a left (there is an Indian Oil petrol pump on left side). 1km on that road and another left where you will meet NH-4. Then after a few kms, follow Belgaum road and pass Ponda. Keep moving and pass Bhagwan Mahavir National Park on your right). Then road will be all yours, very beautiful till Ramnagar. again at Ramnagar, left goes to Belgaum and right goes to Anshi National Park. Miss both and take straight road, after a couple of hours you will again meet Belgaum - Hubli road. A right towards Hubli and keep asking for Hospet. From Hospet Hampi is 15 kms, but for staying take Hospet - Gangavati route and ask for Viupapura Gaddi or Hampi island. 
Distance covered 430 kms.

Goa - Karnataka border area was in ghats and was really beautiful, the time I was riding, I felt I chose the best season as the complete area was covered with thick lush green forests and had many waterfalls along the road, a treat to any nature lover's eyes.
Started at 5 am in morning and reached at sharp 1:30 outside mango tree restaurant at Hampi.

I should have taken Hospet - Gangavati road, but since I was supposed to meet other riders of Wanderers club in Hampi, I went through that route. I called Lalit bhai to know they are at some other temple and after some 40 minutes met with other riders, who were staying at virupapura Gaddi (known as Hampi island).
Then I took Raghu along with me and went by road to the hotel where they were staying.

After a quick shower, me and Raghu went to a peaceful cafe - Laughing Budha with river side view and had a very nice lunch, soup and a beer. We were joined soon by Raju and other group and we had a very nice time. 5 guys and 29 beers was the equation :)
Met a rider Manish there, first one so far I met in south who has done lot of touring up there in Himalayas.

I really liked this place, it has a few cafes that reminded me of those in Old Manali and Kasol that served good food and music. Laughing Budha cafe's owner Deepak was a nice and friendly guy and I discussed a lot with him about that place and all. I took his no. and he can be called if someone is looking for a simple and peaceful cottage to stay for 400-500Rs.

However,  a difference between this place and the places up Himalayas was the people. Most of the hotel/restaurant staff I found was typical money minded Telugu/Kannada guys unlike the Buddhists/Tibetans up in north. These guys at Gauthami forest hotel (where we stayed) were trying to imitate a fake english accent even when I spoke in Hindi and were completely funny. For sure avoid Gauthami hotel for staying, if you are looking for a peaceful stay.

About Hampi:It's a UNESCO World heritage site, with ruins of Vijayanagara kingdom. Has temples, forts and some monuments - all heritage structures. Best way to roam around is get a TVS moped for 150-180 Rs ( I got one for 100 for 2 hours), get a litre of petrol (they charge 100 per litre extra) and visit the places. Once all the places are visited, come down to Tungabhadra river side take a steamer, cross the river and go to Hampi island to stay for the night and enjoy view of river, trees, Shiva temple, nice music and some refreshing drink from laughing budha cafe.  

I wanted to stay there for a longer duration and someday for sure will return back to do nothing and relax.

Some pics from Goa to Hampi :

20th August I woke up late, visited a few temples and left exact at 10:30 am for Hyderabad. Wanderers riders left at 8 am, I could catch up with them near Mehboob Nagar and we all regrouped for lunch.

The route I took from Hampi to Hyderabad on bike was :

Hampi - Gangavati - Raichur - Mehboobnagar - Shamshabad - Hyderabad.
Distance - some 345kms

This route was simplest of all the other routes and most boring and plain dry highway with no rains.
I could have come straight in 7 hours, but as the famous quote goes: "When you are in a group, you are as fast as slowest member of the group".

Some pics from Hampi - UNESCO Heritage site and from my reunioin with group on 19th night:
Some of below pics courtesy : Prabhala Raghu (my friend of Wanderers club)

Back home in evening, I kept thinking about the ride and I wish very soon, I leave this city life and settle at a peaceful place.

I am back from this amazing 10 day monsoon ride from Hyderabad - Mumbai - Goa - Hampi - Hyderabad on my bike. Covered around 2400 kms and enjoyed my solo ride a lot. I must say that roads in South were really good and broad most of the times which made my ride a comfortable one. I can easily co relate doing 500kms here to 200 kms in upper regions of Himachal and J&K.

An outline of places I covered.