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A warm greetings to all xBHPians!!!
In-spite of being late on this wonderful community of ours, Please allow me to share some of my travel experiences...
Let me start with a weekend ride to Chakrata, a small hamlet in the Uttarakhand, situated approx 2000mts ASL. Thiugh it was a short weekend ride, But the place has left a significant impression on my heart and soul. Its so beautiful. So here I go...
I got the new CBZ Xtreme 6 months back in August, leaving office early around 4-5 and going to Morni, Kasauli or a short ride on NH-22 has become usual, in between I could not realize that I have become addicted to mountain biking. I started longing for more and started going on one day trip to Shimla, Kufri, Chail, and other nearby areas.
One day I was looking at the leave calendar and came to know there is a long weekend at the September end. Monday and Friday was holiday so I planned to take leave of 3 days and get off from the office for 9 days in between the project work on full swing. But I was sticked to the plan and got the leaves, though I had to pay for it later in the form of extended working hours, night-out etc. I have travelled for Gangotri, Gaumukh and Badrinath.
Here I am not going to write about this long journey but the weekend trip to Chakrata.
It has been four months since I had gone for a long ride except the same Kasauli, Kufri, Chail, Gaura etc.
So the travel keeda inside me was cursing again and again. I was thinking about a beautiful weekend destination, thought of Harsil but was disappointed to know that it is closed due to winter. Called Tilak sir (a friend on *********.com) and he suggested Chakrata.
Now I was thinking nothing but the Chakrata, opened the Map, browsed through the blogs and asked for the suggestions/fellow traveler in the office. But as expected there was no one. So this time also I was alone (as always
).
Devban:
On day 1 I have asked people about the sunrise time, each person told me different time
. After analyzing all answers, I have decided to be ready for sunrise at 6am, got up at 5:20 and was ready at 5:45. To my surprise there was completely dark outside (you can say: Haath ko haath nahi soojhta tha 
) but I was too optimistic that Sun uncle will be coming very soon. But later I realized that he was too busy in some other things to come until it was 7:15. So I have to wait for more than 1 hour to see the Sunrise.
WAITING FOR THE SUNRISE
WAITING FOR THE SUNRISE
AND HERE IT COMES...
GOLDEN PAINTED NATURE IN THE MORNING
It was 7:30 am when I left for Tiuni from Chakrata. The road to Tiuni was not good at all. Actually it was just a kachcha rasta until I reached Saura(a small town).
ON THE WAY TO CHAKRATA-SAURA
ON THE WAY TO CHAKRATA-SAURA
In between, I passed through some densed forests, deserted mountains (because of winter) and sometime it was skidding too.
ON THE WAY TO CHAKRATA-SAURA
ON THE WAY TO CHAKRATA-SAURA
ON THE WAY TO CHAKRATA-SAURA
AND THIS WAS THE BEST PART OF THE JOURNEY
There is nothing much to write about between tiuni to Shimla/Chandigarh except some good views in between.
TIUNI
TIUNI
HATKOTI
My target was to reach Shimla by 3, though I have missed the target by around half an hour or so. Reached Kufri at 3:30 and it took me 30 more mins to cross Shimla from kufri. I rode non-stop until I reached Chandigarh form Fagu. It took me around 2 and a half hour from Fagu to Chandigarh.
Thanks for Reading!
Ranjeet
In-spite of being late on this wonderful community of ours, Please allow me to share some of my travel experiences...
Let me start with a weekend ride to Chakrata, a small hamlet in the Uttarakhand, situated approx 2000mts ASL. Thiugh it was a short weekend ride, But the place has left a significant impression on my heart and soul. Its so beautiful. So here I go...
I got the new CBZ Xtreme 6 months back in August, leaving office early around 4-5 and going to Morni, Kasauli or a short ride on NH-22 has become usual, in between I could not realize that I have become addicted to mountain biking. I started longing for more and started going on one day trip to Shimla, Kufri, Chail, and other nearby areas.
One day I was looking at the leave calendar and came to know there is a long weekend at the September end. Monday and Friday was holiday so I planned to take leave of 3 days and get off from the office for 9 days in between the project work on full swing. But I was sticked to the plan and got the leaves, though I had to pay for it later in the form of extended working hours, night-out etc. I have travelled for Gangotri, Gaumukh and Badrinath.
Here I am not going to write about this long journey but the weekend trip to Chakrata.
It has been four months since I had gone for a long ride except the same Kasauli, Kufri, Chail, Gaura etc.
So the travel keeda inside me was cursing again and again. I was thinking about a beautiful weekend destination, thought of Harsil but was disappointed to know that it is closed due to winter. Called Tilak sir (a friend on *********.com) and he suggested Chakrata.
Now I was thinking nothing but the Chakrata, opened the Map, browsed through the blogs and asked for the suggestions/fellow traveler in the office. But as expected there was no one. So this time also I was alone (as always
). Devban:
On day 1 I have asked people about the sunrise time, each person told me different time
. After analyzing all answers, I have decided to be ready for sunrise at 6am, got up at 5:20 and was ready at 5:45. To my surprise there was completely dark outside (you can say: Haath ko haath nahi soojhta tha ) but I was too optimistic that Sun uncle will be coming very soon. But later I realized that he was too busy in some other things to come until it was 7:15. So I have to wait for more than 1 hour to see the Sunrise. WAITING FOR THE SUNRISE
WAITING FOR THE SUNRISE
AND HERE IT COMES...
GOLDEN PAINTED NATURE IN THE MORNING
It was 7:30 am when I left for Tiuni from Chakrata. The road to Tiuni was not good at all. Actually it was just a kachcha rasta until I reached Saura(a small town).
ON THE WAY TO CHAKRATA-SAURA
ON THE WAY TO CHAKRATA-SAURA
In between, I passed through some densed forests, deserted mountains (because of winter) and sometime it was skidding too.
ON THE WAY TO CHAKRATA-SAURA
ON THE WAY TO CHAKRATA-SAURA
ON THE WAY TO CHAKRATA-SAURA
AND THIS WAS THE BEST PART OF THE JOURNEY
There is nothing much to write about between tiuni to Shimla/Chandigarh except some good views in between.
TIUNI
TIUNI
HATKOTI
My target was to reach Shimla by 3, though I have missed the target by around half an hour or so. Reached Kufri at 3:30 and it took me 30 more mins to cross Shimla from kufri. I rode non-stop until I reached Chandigarh form Fagu. It took me around 2 and a half hour from Fagu to Chandigarh.
Thanks for Reading!
Ranjeet
Do go through the log that I had penned quite some-time back (on xBhp). 
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