After spending some funny moments with school kids at Pattadkal and Aihole, we started for Hampi at around 2pm. I had heard a lot about Hampi, so had expectations set pretty high. Well, lets just say, they were annihilated. For good. Route Taken & Rideability Factor - 3 / 5 From Aihole, we strayed around … Continue reading Temples & Rocks of Hampi (Road trip contd.)
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We have been chasing the mountains while rain playing hide and seek with us all the time during this trip. Whenever we were ready with rain cover, it didn't rain and whenever we planned to go out riding without rain cover, it would definitely rain( I guess every rider would have similar experience once in his life) .
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It's been 11 days since the Uttrakhand chapter of @bajajdominar #roofoftheworldodyssey started.
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@sarath_shenoy and I, rode 2000+ KM through dense forest, small roads , off roads and trails but we always felt a little away from the snow covered mountains.
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In our last stop at Kausani( referred as Switzerland of India by Gandhi Ji) we could see the 360km wide range of snow Mountain but they felt to be very far away.
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Today after reaching munsiyari, the mountains have finally come close to us. Just from the hotel window we could see the million on stars with snow covered mountain as if they are just few km away now.
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Sometimes, this view looks like a beautiful painting, hanging over our room window.
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We came back from Niti village and took a stop at Nandprayag because the last 50 km of road was really tiring( construction is going on to make badrinath road a double lane highway) .
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I had to finish some work( customer care omobikes :D), before we could leave but @sarath_shenoy was in mood to chill . We did not have any plan confirmed till 10 O clock but 10:30 we decided to move to next destination which is Kausani.
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Last 4 days, we had been riding mostly in rain and around border area and our drone was in sleep mode. Somewhere on highway to kausani we found a great view and decided to capture the road.
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It was perfect start with smooth take off by drone. But it seems our stupid drone was in mood of long sleep. It was recording and suddenly disappeared. Last image we found was some tree leaves.
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There was a big mountain on another side of river. It was clearly visible that no one can climb that mountain and there are thousand tree so we were not sure which tree it was on. Even it was possible to climb somehow but it was impossible to cross the river.
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We looked for it for 3-4 hours but the stupid drone did not return home. We lost the drone and decided to move further.
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Crossing through jungles we reached kausani at 8:30pm but luckily found a cheap homestay with Amazon view of snow covered mountain.
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Decided to take a brake and dry up our cloths when we found our few more items are missing. .
Let's see how many items will be left by the end of uttrakhand trip 😁
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Till now we have been avoiding highways but at the end of day, we were going towards the popular touristy locations through those less travelled roads as well.
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Day before yesterday, We were heading towards badrinath and mana village but because of major landslide we had to return when we were just 20km away from mana village(also known as last Indian village).
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We couldn't reach where we planned so we decided to travel to some off beat places.
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After using @bajajdominar for last few days, I have built a confidence that I can take this bike anywhere in any weather condition. It's been raining non stop for last few days, bad road, off roads and roads full of mud from landslides but Dominar took us smoothly through all those place.
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So instead of mana village we went to NITI Village( another place which is 25km from tibet border) .
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Niti village which rarely see tourist and 80km away from joshimath. This village is open for 6 months as the people from far villages visit this place for farming and when it start snowing they return back to there homes in joshimath or other places .
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The landscape was completely different than what we see in Uttrakhand with really amazing view throughout this stretch of 80km. There was no network in 65 km range and no fuel station. We stayed in Gamsholi village valley surrounded by very big naked mountains. The homestay owner requested army people to let us cross through the check post without Permit as well.
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Now the weather has open up a little bit and we could see blue sky. We are heading towards munsiyari, hoping to see some more beautiful places on our way
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