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Travelogue Approved

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[MENTION=57036]Suresh Upadya[/MENTION], nice teaser bro. Now feed us more

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Would be waiting for your amazing set of photographs.
Surely you would have enjoyed the rain rides too much.

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Planning for this ride.
Am watching this thread
Nice pics BTW

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Thanks for approval & thanks to all who liked the teaser dear fellow Bikers.
Travelling has been my childhood passion. Whether its by car by Bike or my cycle some times when I go for groups rides with fellow cyclist. I just like to get lost in the woods and keep wandering. This trip I was planning since 2-3 months. I never imagined it will be cloudy and raining there.As they say Ooty is the queen of Nilgiris. I have been to Munnar, I have been to Kodaikanal. Ooty is something special. Many people told the place has been more commercialised and is not clean. But to my surprise I found the city very neat & organised.Sign boards to every where to reach popular picnic places.I found a litter free road so neatly kept.In spite of this weather I found lots of people from all over the country visiting this place. I cant imagine how many people will be visiting during summer. Surely will plan to take my family during that time.I never imagined riding in rains but surely enjoyed.The great joy of uncertainties being unplanned & taking life as it comes, adapt to situation & dance in the rain instead of complaining about weather

Day1:
4 Riders planned & only 2 tuned out expected start time was 5:30 am from Gopalan Arch Mall on mysore road but was able to start by 6:00 am only.My co-rider Ashwin being new comer , he was a bit slow starter but later picked up speed. Surprisingly less traffic on mysore Road on a saturday.Everything was surprise.Reached Kamat after Chennapatna by 7:20. Finished breakfast and started towards mysore .Made mistake by taking the ring road to reach Ooty road it was a long long way.Better go thru city.The stretch from Mysore to Nangingud being a single lane was busy with lots of lorries.Our next destination was Gopalaswamy betta. I was visiting this place for 5th time since my 1st visit here in 2001.By then there was no check-post no restrictions. Now lots of restrictions .I was told we have to return back in 1:50 time.We stopped @ my favorite place for some clicks with our Steeds.

Entering Bandipar








Top of Gopalaswamy clicks.....


















Just before reaching OOty some tea estates..........








Route : http://goo.gl/maps/hkz4w

Day 2 to follow tomorrow

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Suresh,

Nice ride and write up. Waiting for the rest of the log.

Thanks,
Santosh

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Day2 :


On the way to Doddabetta









Road on descent with with 35 such hair pin bends














As we reached Masinagudi to our surprise rain had vanished with cloudy weather.Had lunch @ one of the hotels in Bandipur and continued our Journey to Bangalore thru Mysore. As usual Mysore road was crowded with lot of traffic. As we reached Mysore sky was clear with bright sunshine. All our riding gear had dried by this time Reached home by 6:15 pm. Truly enjoyed every bit of this ride.
Once again thank you for reading this blog. Hope this will be useful for fellow Bikers.

Few pics on the way to Mysore....

Animals in Bandipur


Royal Enfield on the back of Mini cooper?????

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Nice ride and crisp pictures. The fog indeed looks beautiful.
Thanks for sharing

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Beautiful pics
Looks like rain proved to be icing on the cake

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Nice pics. I also want to make a trip to ooty, but things are not turning in my favour.

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nice ride and very nice pics...

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Nice pics

Cheerz!!

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Nice Pics..... I was there last week... i hope it was the same bike i saw in ooty.....

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Nice ride there Suresh! Lovely pictures too! The mist and the fog does make Ooty lovely in spite of the cold.

Cheers & Ride Safe