A_n_i

The mountain range called Ayodhya is located in the district of purulia, west bengal. The town of purulia is 328kms from kolkata, and ayodhya hills is 70 odd kms from purulia.Just did a weekend ride to this place with some ride buddies.Uploading some pics.Trip logs coming soon !










..................while passing through the remote villages, I can hear the people saying " Maoists! they are Maoists ! "......

Aryan

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nabendubasu

looking foroward for the triplog ani,and nice picture there

MG

Finally something from Kolkata guys.Looking forward for the trip log and pictures.

Fourth picture-Is that a dam?

Also the road at the second last picture looks inviting.

2write

Hey Ani,

Beautiful photos and had never heard of this place

Seems like a great place to camp.

East has so much better places to see and be at - damn all this terrorism and naxalites.

Hope you post about more such exotic locations for our "Doordarshan" at least.

Regards,
UD

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Very good stuff!

haxor

beautiful photos...looking forward for the triplog..

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Nice to see the pictures, nice to see people from Bengal touring and sharing, and even more inspiring to see that you guys are doing it on roads which do not necessarily qualify as roads. It would be good to have some details on the trip log.

Thanks for sharing.

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A_n_i

Thanks Aryan da,Nabendu da, Mg, 2write, sunny and Ken da.
@mg, yes it is a dam.
@ken da, thank you for those words.And yes, we did a reasonable amount of offroading.
It was 5th november, around 11pm when we decided on a phone conference that we
are going to purulia.Ayodhya hills is a unusual destination,not because of bad road
conditions,but because of maoist activities in that area.It is a disturbed zone.But in
this trip,we wanted to do all kinds of roads, highways,ghat sections, hills and some
offroading too:d.And purulia seemed to be the perfect place.
Three Bikes were:
Bajaj Pulsar 220
HH ZMA
TVS Apache RTR
All black steeds of Indian bike manufacturing companies.
Riders were:
Anirban(xbhp id: A_n_I)
Suvo(xbhp id: suvo_rossi)
Monty(xbhp id: monty_rockstar)
and Somorshee
Monty decided not to ride his unicorn for this trip.We agreed, because its always
better to have one extra rider for these sort of trips.
Serviced our bikes on friday, I bought tubeless tyre puncture kit and some
spares.Suvo was carrying Toolkit, First aid, extra tube and footpump.We decided to
stay in a village farmhouse on ranchi road near purulia town, which i arranged for.
This made the whole trip a better experience.
Day 1:
Could not sleep the whole night coz of excitement.Called Suvo and Monty and went to
Suvo's place around 2.30 am to play with Deco, his black lab:d.Somorshee came
around 3 am.After a little discussion about the route and stops, we decided to start.
packed all the bags properly and loaded them on the bikes.As Monty was going with
Suvo on his ZMA as pillion, me and somorshee carried most of the luggage.
We started for Purulia at exactly 4 am.Suvo was the drag. Passed Kona Expressway in
a ziffy and we were on NH-2,also known as Durgapur Expressway.I prefer night riding,
so was enjoying a lot.The 220cc motor under me performed excelently.I could see
suvo's ZMA struggling in crosswinds a few times, but my 220 was more comfortable
and it was planted on the road.I had a very bitter experience with fog in my last
night ride on NH-6 because I wear glasses,but surprisingly this time it was
manageable.It was the crack of dawn and the highway had less trafic,this made it a
lot better.Maintaining steady 70-80kmph speeds, reached Shaktigar around 5.20 am,
which is 110 kms from kolkata.

Shaktigar

first smoke!

sunrise at shaktigar


Had 2 cups of tea, some biscuits and cigarettes and we were back on NH-2 by 6am.
Next stop was Durgapur.Relaxed there for sometime.


Durgapur

Continued riding again.I decided
to rip a little now, and touched three digit speeds a few times till the place where to
had to take left turn to enter Asansol.entered the town of Asansol around
8.45am.Asansol is 225 kms from kolkata.We were hungry and searched for a
restaurant.Finally found one after 5 minutes.Had Masala Dosas and Hot tea.Stayed
there till 10am.Handed my sony cybershot W80 to Monty as he was the pillion on ZMA.Please excuse the bad pics,most of them are taken while we were riding.Refueled our bikes, and followed the GT road.I was Leading the
group now.Road conditions were not good,but not that bad either.Trafic made it
worse.After 15 more Kays,we took another left turn to enter Disergar Ghat.Crossed
disergar bridge and entered Purulia District.


Disergar Ghat.

The real fun started now.The arrow straight highway was over.We had beautiful curvy
roads infront of us, filled with lots of ups and downs. Road conditions were perfect,
long sweeping curves welcomed us.


the roads!

I was enjoying the most. After sometime, i could see
the Panchet Hill on my right hand side. Crossed some small jungles.These roads had
less trafic, and I was going mad over some curves. The roads and scenary was so
good that for sometime I forgot that this zone is famous for Maoist activities.This
was the most enjoyable experience of the whole day.Crossed Raghunathpur doing
65-70kmph speeds.Roads between Raghunathpur and Purulia were the most exciting.
Took a couple of Butt brakes in between.
some pics:

panchet hill



Somorshee Monthy and Suvo !





Reached the town of Purulia Around 12.30pm.Crossed the Town and asked for
directions towards Ranchi road.Entered the Farmhouse on Ranchi road where we were
supposed to stay around 1pm.Bathed in a pool and Had our lunch. Then we were off
to bed.Woke up around 8pm.Did what 3 college stundents are supposed to do when
they are away from home, alone and have some good ol rum at hand.Had our dinner,
and we were awake till 2am, chatting between ourselves and listening to everything,
from pink floyd to skid row till mudvayne,porcupine tree and Killswitch Engage.:d

Pic from the roof of the farmhouse
Route taken : Kolkata-Shaktigar-Durgapur-Asanson-Niamotpur-Disergarh-Raghunathpur-Anara-Purulia
Kms done:
350 kms.

Day 2: The ride to ayodhya hills and more pics coming soon!

This is my first triplog on xbhp.Trying the best I can.

me is rossi

nice stufff dude...