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There was a lil fear in my mind before starting this ride and that fear was regarding the road conditions nothing other than that. My last long ride (560kms through Nallamala Forest ) has taught me many lessons where i have ridden through 40Kms of worst roads of my life under heavy down pour and in pitch dark conditions. But i decided to face wat ever the roads may come during this ride. So packed up all the necessary things for my ride and went to bed at 11:00PM and i was all the while thinking when is my clock going to Buzz and i was so much interested in this ride that i ended waking up at 1:00AM , 3:30AM to check my clock if its 4:00AM and finally at 4:00AM i heard the buzz of my alarm and woke up and got ready by 4:30AM and checked my things again and came down stairs and started my bike and mean while the engine was getting warm i tied my backpack ( in which i was carrying Foot pump, Pressure gauge, Mobile Charging cables, Puncture repair kit, Chain Lube and Some snacks ) to the rear seat and had put my magnetic tank bag ( i was carrying my DSLR in it ) to the tank and geared up and started my ride at 4:50.

By 5:15 AM entered into city and decided to take a snap of the focus of low beam from my newly installed Philips Xtreme Vision headlamp.


After taking the snap decide to roll on and take a break after reaching Eluru , i was enjoying my early morning ride with cool breeze hitting me though my meshed jacket and i was peacefully cruising at 80Kmph and light started coming at around 5:40AM as my view got better i have twisted my throttle and started cruising at 100Kmph passing through trucks and i was feeling lil bored cruising lonely and then a Swift Dezire car passed me at high speed and to evade my boring feeling i tried to keep up with that car maintaining safe distance and was cruising at 130Kmph. As i was riding through fields i ended up taking hits from bugs at that speed and in short time my visor was filled with blood from those insects but as i have planned to stop at Eluru i kept riding and to my surprise i saw a sign board showing Tanuku 20Kms ahead and i was shocked pulled my bike aside and took my mobile out and checked with my GPS and i was surprised to know that i covered 115kms in 70Minutes . So decided to take a break and clean my visor and in the mean while took few snaps too



The roads were too beautiful and i guess u can understand how could i cover that distance in such short time

After riding for few more Kms came across a beautiful location so decided to take some clicks.



Captured some flora too


The weather looked awesome and it was showing chances of rain but as i was riding ahead sun came out the clouds and started shining bright and i felt i was lucky. I decided to ride slow as if i ride at my pace i felt i would be in my destination before breakfast time . Had taken right turn at Gopalapuram from the highway to reach Amalapuram via Machavaram and i entered into Village roads



i was riding at a very slow pace enjoying my ride and crossed Machavaram at around 7:40AM and meanwhile i found a small hotel and decided to put something in my stomach and ordered Idly and it was very very tasty and i liked it very much and it was pretty cheap too 4 idly's for Rs 10/- . Inquired with the hotel guy regarding the road conditions ahead and started riding and mean while came across this location before reaching Amalapuram



On entering Amalapuram could notice greenery on the road sides has increased and i was riding through some beautiful locations and so decided to stop at a place and take a picture


Yep the roads were as beautiful as you are seeing in the above picture with very minimum traffic. I have thought of taking a snap of mine along with my bike at this location but i had to give my tripod for repair so couldn't but decided to take a self portrait



I loved the roads of Amalapuram every where it was green and there were a lot of coconut trees. Stopped at a location in Amalapuram and took my bike into coconut farm for taking some snaps of my bike


At a location named Muramalla after crossing Amalapuram if we take right turn we ll be going towards Mangrove Forest, there is nothing special about this place except a Light House name as Sacramento Light house built in 1902, and its 43mt above sea level near Pallamkuru and it was built in memory of Sacrimental ship which got submerged into the sea at this place.

After reaching Muramalla the time was aroud 10:00AM .Inquired from locals about the distance and about this Light House and to my surprise on local told me its 80Kms on hearing that another local scolded him for telling wrong distance and he told me its near about 20kms from here he guided me the way and that way looks likes this


after travelling for some 5Kms on this road the road has transformed into this


i was riding slowly at 40- 50Kmph as the sand was too loose ,All through the way i was inquiring from the locals reg the way to the light house and many people gave me wrong directions and wrong distance figures but at last i could get correct directions from a local and am really thankful for him and after 1 hour reached the destination . Yes that 20Kms i did in 1Hour hope you understood the road conditions and how well i was guided by some locals. There were no proper road as i was nearing the light house and i had to ride through very loose sand to reach the lighthouse.After such a tough ride for 20Kms in hot sun i felt exhausted. Came across many beautiful locations and decided to click them while riding back.



The doors were locked and there was no way in and i was lil bit disappointed but nonetheless i successfully made to one of my destination and i was very happy indeed coz i came across these locations below while on the way to Light House



The below pic ll take some time to get digested





After giving my eyes enough treat watching these beautiful locations started riding back.




that is not a lake or anything its mighty Godavari, Yes i was riding beside it

After this place i went to Yanam- Koringa- Rajhamundry and so the story is left out , So please glue up

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The pics are really a treat Sandeep bhai ......... and they are sprinkling what is there in AP ............ waiting for more............ BTW can't see your latest Airoh in any pic till now

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he he Thanks bro for liking my pics. Her's a pic of my helmet for U captured by me . Btw few pics dint get upload properly so uploaded them again . Please refresh the page and check for other images.

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Bro some write-up with pics

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Wow.. Love the snaps! Never knew AP was this green

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Brilliant stuff bro. Loved seeing pics of Andhra all green and wet. And quite brave of you to venture out in troubled times. Did you find agitations/roadblocks anywhere though? Waiting for the rest... Oh and professional pics *Wow. Very nice on the eyes... Keep it coming.

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AP is too green during Monsoon

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Thanks bro for liking my pictures. Yup there were agitations at a place and am going to put it in the write-up with pics.

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This I daresay will happen much more and the riding bug bites you harder especially since you own that machine of yours... I say this with the utter conviction of experiencing it for a year now... Cant tell you how many times i've thought about abandoning my work... . even after doing 2 big rides in this one year i'm on for a 2 week solo ride in September maybe... Just doesn't stop biting this bug I tell ya .

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Dude... How u got to know about the lighthouse??
Do u have other pics and details of it?
Anyways awesome pics.... Keep going

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Yes you are absolutely right bro

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I was searching for a route to ride into Mangrove Fores and in that way found this Light House
No buddy i dont have more pics of the light house as the doors were closed dint spend much time there...

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Great that u have found that
U hav mentioned that it was built in 1900's so had some curiousity about it




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So while coming back from Mangrove forest had to cross this small and very narrow bridge
It had taken me around 2 hours to do that 40Kms of off road ride, had lost most of my energy there itself and i was feeling hungry . To my luck when am about to cross Amalapuram agitators had blocked the roads and were shouting slogans and i had to wait for 30min and then a local guy came to my rescue. On seeing me he asked where r u riding to !and I said i want to go to Yanam and he told me that he knows the way out of this road block and asked me to follow him and took me through the paddy fields and i had to ride about 10Kms through a village to cross that road block while most of the heavy vehicles and cars were stuck back.

A picture of the road block
I had to cross a bridge ( in the picture below ) to reach Yanam and i loved the way tarmac was laid on that bridge. I was cruising at 110Kmph on this bridge
Finally i have reached my 2nd destination i.e. Yanam ( one of the Union Territory of Pondicherry ) at around 12:30PM
After entering into Yanam i have found a petrol bunk and i entered into it to tank up my bike. I have tanked up in Vijayawada and my CBR has consumed 9liters of petrol for 290Kms and as Yanam is a UT the petrol here is too cheap and the cost per liter of petrol was around Rs67/-. I have asked the people in the petrol station to guide me to a nice restaurant and they have showed me a restaurant which was right next to the petrol station and the restaurant name was Nallam Restaurant. I was surprised with the too cheap prices of the food in this place and i have ordered for tiger prawns curry and fried rice. They have charged Rs160/- for 8 tiger prawns .
After finishing my lunch started riding to Koringa which was my 3rd destination. It is around 25kms away from Yanam and the roads in Yanam were too beautiful with very minimum traffic and upon reaching Koringa have taken a ticket to enter into the wild sanctuary. Koringa wild sanctuary is famous for the wooden bridge which is 500Meters long and i have captured few shots of this beautiful wooden bridge.
There were some beautiful colored small crabs in the thick mud under the bridgebut i dont know that whether they are being raised there or they are grown there,but they were very beautiful. I was too tired by then and it was around 3:00PM and i have one more destination to cover ( Rajahmundry) so dint go till the end of the bridge. Went back straight to my bike, lubed the chain and started riding towards Rajahmundry via Kakinada- Samarlakota.

The roads were well laid till Rajahmundry and in the process of riding after having such a tasty meal and for not having enough sleep last night i felt drowsy,So had to stop for every 30Kms wash my face with water. But i loved my ride. On reaching Rajahmundry , turned my GPS on in my Nokia mobile and started riding towards the famous Rajahmundry bridge also known as Godavari bridge or Kovvur- Rajahmundry bridge. It is Asia's second longest road-cum-rail bridge crossing a water body and i took the privilege of riding my bike on that bridge. I expected the road on that bridge to be butter smooth but i was wrong, iron supports of the bridge were protruding out and i had to ride my bike at 25Kmph all along the 2.7Kms of the bridge taking bumps. Pictures of bridge are below..
So started riding towards Eluru via Kovvuru and the roads from Kovvuru till Bhimdol( near about 70Kms ) were in pretty bad shape filled with potholes everywhere, i should say worst and i was lucky that still sunlight was there so that helped me to cover that distance in around 90Minutes
on reaching Eluru- Vijayawada route entered into NH and roads were good and i could cruise peacefully at 80Kmph and reached home at around 9:30PM.

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Beautiful [MENTION=58794]Sandeep Patnala[/MENTION] , keep doing such rides & treat us with your photos, what say!!

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Yah sure Y not Thanks for liking my pictures

You can check my Photography Page ( https://www.facebook.com/sandeeppatnala ) for other pics, there is an album named EXPLORER ..

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ha ha... Yah luckily i found it, and i had a hard journey while riding there but it was worth.

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Superb pics Sandeep.