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**rossiter** · 10-15-2009, 03:01 PM

Tour report approved

Slow pokes.. better get the logs and pics going fast!

**vas** · 10-15-2009, 03:04 PM

Originally posted by mithun.08 View Post

These are not Teasers

Even this is not a teaser

More to come..

wow one more log to pass the time in office

am loving it.

log bega barali mithun

**whizzkid_ram** · 10-15-2009, 03:11 PM

Nice...cool stuff to bring in my system for the time pass..bring it on

**silver_falcon_46** · 10-15-2009, 03:15 PM

Nice pics there. What the heck happened to you guys the other day?? Both your phones switched off, and we were waiting till 11AM at Shimoga. Eventually spoke to the manager and blocked our room till 12.30PM for you guys. Never heard from you guys even after the trip!

**mithun.08** · 10-15-2009, 03:20 PM

Originally posted by silver_falcon_46 View Post

Nice pics there. What the heck happened to you guys the other day?? Both your phones switched off, and we were waiting till 11AM at Shimoga. Eventually spoke to the manager and blocked our room till 12.30PM for you guys. Never heard from you guys even after the trip!

We both are extremely sorry for that.. we couldn't find network and the ride back was close to hell

.. And mob batteries was running very low, so only saw your message when we reached sagar..

**mithun.08** · 10-15-2009, 03:43 PM

Frustration! Frustration! Frustration! This trip was born out of Frustration! Always had West coast in mind, chalked out a plan along with Chethan our very own bike baba and decided on visiting Wayanad, Muzilipagandi driven-in beach, Mangalore, Kodachadri, Sirsi[We couldn't visit this place, read on to know Y?]

Day 0 Sept 28th [Bengaluru - Kalpetta]:
Due to some unavoidable reason we decided to start around 2 PM, plan was to halt in Kalpetta so we could spent the next day around Wayanad. It was a smooth and boring ride till Gundalpet, time was already 5 PM, we knew after 6 we couldn't enter the Bandipura forest area. Started pushing a bit, we crossed the check post around 6:15 PM.

After Entering forest range

The roads were beautiful and very scenic, it was full rip session till the natural lights went out. There was a big traffic jam near Sulthan Bathery check post, we some how came out of it very quickly and took a small Coffee break. We hit Kalpetta around 8 PM, looked out for some hotels and finally checked in to The Woodlands hotel which had a private, secure parking. Ended the day with the following.

Energy Drinks

Yummy food

Route: Bengaluru - Mysore- Gundlapet - Sulthan Bathery- Kalpetta
Distance: 278 Kms
Route Map Link

Day1 Waynada

Today's plan was to visit the main places around Kapletta, lazy started around 9 after having the breakfast in the Woodlands hotel.

Places around Kalpetta

Places around Kalpetta and Distance

The first place we visited was Karappuzha Earth Dam

Way to Karappuzha Earth Dam

Dam from some distance

Dam

The other side of the Dam

Old hut near Dam

Next was Edakkal caves, here we want to take small jeep [roller coaster] ride which will take us to the base of the Edkkal caves from where we need to trek for 300 mts.

Want some?

Edakkal caves, trek

Edakkal caves, trek

Inside Edakkal caves

Inside Edakkal caves, Chethan posing

From here we can again trek another 400 mtrs up and see the whole of wayanad but we were in no mood because it would 400 mtrs trek would take 45 mins, so dropped the plan. We trekked down, and took the Jeep drive back to the place where we had parked our bikes, the jeep drive was very good. I have a video of it will, watch out for the video section.

Next we headed to Meenmutty waterfalls, the entry fee here is bit wierd, for 1-10 persons it 300 Rs with guide. Guide said it was 1 kms trek but guess it was more, this trek had everything from rope to no support steep slippery way.

Lonely tree

Getting down using a rope

First view of fall

Falls

This is way back up

One more

By the time we came back, we were completely drained, gulped a bottle of butter milk and rested for some time.

We continued to the next place, with no place in mind we were waiting for some board to show up, the roads were too good to stop.

Road

We got some checkpost, we paid a entry fee of Rs.7 and we crossed it only to know we were heading towards Ooty, turned back saying 'next time'. The roads were too good to stop.

We made a stop near some place which is very close to Chembra peak and refueled ourselves with 1 biryani and omlet each. We knew Chembra would be hard to trek considering what we had gone 1 hour back. So we headed towards Soochipara falls, we say a board whichread Kanthanpara falls 3 kms, so we took a diversion to check it out. This is what we saw.

Initially we thought this was the falls

Kanthanpara falls

Kanthanpara falls

This place was uncrowded and kind of nice, after spending some time we headed back towards, Soochipara falls.

Weneedto walk2kms or so to reach the falls, this is what we saw while we were on our way to the falls.

Chethan named it Double Decker

Falls from distance

Falls closeup

From here we headed back to hotel, it was 5:30 already, we saw a board reading Pookot lake 5 kms, we thought we shall give it a try but when we reached there it was already closed. So we headed back to hotel.

This was a very tiring day with so much trekking and 130 kms ride.

More to come..

**silver_falcon_46** · 10-15-2009, 10:29 PM

Originally posted by mithun.08 View Post

We both are extremely sorry for that.. we couldn't find network and the ride back was close to hell

.. And mob batteries was running very low, so only saw your message when we reached sagar..

No problem. Nice pictures.

**moeed** · 10-16-2009, 07:17 PM

Lovely photos there!

**fz16_np** · 10-19-2009, 04:10 PM

beautiful pics n log, waiting 4 d rest.....

**aarunn** · 10-20-2009, 08:28 AM

Nice pix there guys

**yamahatrooper** · 10-21-2009, 05:23 AM

Looks like you guys are having a full on back to nature trip.

**Mibhin** · 10-21-2009, 06:26 AM

AHAAAAAA..... again a trip log.... nice trip of wayanad.... inviting roads.....

hey mithun..... maga nice one da.....

pookote lake is nice for photography... otherwise nothing much to see there......

ok where is the rest

**chicane1879** · 10-21-2009, 09:17 AM

Nice pics and Wayanad is surely beautiful.

The Double Decker pic was interesting!!

**mithun.08** · 10-21-2009, 05:13 PM

Originally posted by moeed View Post

Lovely photos there!

Thanks moeed..

Originally posted by fz16_np View Post

beautiful pics n log, waiting 4 d rest.....

Thanks

Originally posted by aarunn View Post

Nice pix there guys

Thanks aarunn

Originally posted by yamahatrooper View Post

Looks like you guys are having a full on back to nature trip.

Yes it was date with nature..

Originally posted by Mibhin View Post

AHAAAAAA..... again a trip log.... nice trip of wayanad.... inviting roads.....

hey mithun..... maga nice one da.....

pookote lake is nice for photography... otherwise nothing much to see there......

ok where is the rest

Thanks maga.. again? last time I went touring was long time back..

Originally posted by chicane1879 View Post

Nice pics and Wayanad is surely beautiful.

The Double Decker pic was interesting!!

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