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thanks for approval, uploaded pics again...

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Beautiful pics.

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Just before the 36 Hairpin bends started....




the road was very good, every turn was a treat...





If you come across this board while climbing the 36 hairpin bend road, you are still alive....
this particular strech of road was the only part i was scared off throughout the ride, but surprisingly the small 110cc engine performed very well and pulled off as if no big deal, although i was wishing all the way i shdve had a Royal Enfield for this strech to climb up, nevertheless i was happy that i need not worry much about gear changes and could enjoy the view cruising smoothly on a automatic scooter...

although iam not a fan of anything that is automatic, that day i didnt mind as i was enjoying the view in a very relaxed way....

we did spot couple of trucks, autos breakdown on the way up and almost every car smelled of burning clutch....this road is definitely not for people who can not understand the risks behind mindless riding/driving...



If you are not tired of facing curves, well then the road is not short of throwing more curves at you...loved every single meter of this stretch of this road



Finally at the top of hills ! the freshness in air is something which one has to experience but cant be put in words...i actually live in Qatar, and people who live in GCC understand the importance of greenery...was in love with every view that came across..




never expected to find hyderabadi biriyani in ooty :P although not totalllyyyy hyderabadi but still satisfied with it.

NOTE: "Hyderabadi Biriyani Sirf Hyderabad Meinch Milti, Baahar Sob Duplicate Biriyani Milti...Agar Hyderabadi Biryani khaana hai toh Hyderabad Meich khaa sakte"
(Hyderabadi biriyani is made only in hyderabad and you can not find the same authentic hyderabadi biriyani else where in any corner of this world)... trust me !





View from Hotel.



Ooty Botanical Gardens (although iam not much of a fan of visiting common tourist places, but for a change i did try visiting this botanical gardens....people studying botany would love this place. i just admired visually without knowing what kind of tree/plants are they !




i dont know what this is called but i loved it....



hmmmm....



by now my eyeballs had turned green ! had never been in so much greenery ever before..




random clicks while getting bored in a tourist place.

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Thank you for showering us with the plethora of greenary.

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awesome bro , keep it up ..
keep mile munching on your Activa , take care of it regular while on long ride (y)

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Again it's not the CC that matters it's the spirit that matters.
BTW how did the FZ 2.0 fare in the hills? I know this is a little OT but couldn't help myself from asking it.

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well the FZ was flawless, just that they were struggling with pillion seat comfort.. we were not in any hurry so we never pushed the bike....what was surprising was the fuel economy fz returned ! we were riding at 80kmph constant and the fz could do 600kms on a tankfull....although fuel economy was not a topic of concern....the tire hugger was a one of the best thing on bike specially in rains and it works perfectly unlike on many other bikes ive seen...it helped them to stay clean when going through wet roads...

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Thanks for the response.

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Woh, Active in action, one question didn't the Activa rider feel less fun, specially on hill just because very its to easy to ride.

And how about the new FZ compare to old FZ on hills, as power is reduced?

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This was our 4th day of trip and we decided to go around ooty....we were not relying on google maps and wanted to things old school way hence the only GPS we had was asking for places and directions in a language which we could neither speak or understand....usually people start talking in tamil and we somehow understood what they mean with their body langauge and tone. and just incase we couldnt understand anything only then we used to say "tamil illlay which gave them a idea that whatever they had explained us in past 2 minutes went in vain and then they used to explain again in english or if luckky hindi"

we started our day by getting the yamaha and honda serviced at dealers early morning(the number of vehicles in workshop is far lesser than what i generally see in hyderabad so they promised delivery within 1-2 hours and they didnt break their promises....the reason behind getting activa and fz serviced was both of them were just 1 month old and had 1000kms on odo when we had started......

although we made sure we didnt start speeding directly on highway, thanks to xbhp and numerours posts about running in period which i had read years back and was aware off ! we didnt push our vehicles as soon as we hit highway...

coming back to our day...


picking up Fz from dealer after service..





starbucks-costa-nero-robusta tasted them all....but nothing beats a filter coffee served in this steel glass..






while heading for Coonoor from ooty i spotted a signboard saying Lovedale.....it was a small place some 10-15 kms inside if im not wrong but absolutely serene ! there was a small railway station, a school and church on way....






you will never be far from amazing views when you are in nilgiris....on way to lovedale we could smell the fragrance from eucalyptus tress which were more than 50-60 feet tall on either sides of road....




it never stops raining in ooty and people never stop because of rains...jackets-rain gear are part of peoples daily wear over there...





we headed for kotagiri and then to kodanad view point some 50kms from ooty and the road from coonor to kotagiri was one of the best roads i ever rode upon....we hardly found a straight road on the way....





surrounded by tea estates and these flowers ran across the road for kilometers !




We couldnt decide where do we look because the view was awesome on either sides of road...





riding on these roads and experiencing nature made me realize how artificial life we are living right now !





Speechless........





stilll speechlessss....






at kodanad view point, a must visit place ! just 50 kms from ooty....





i sat here for almost 30mins enjoying the present moment of life.....these were those days when i was neither rejoicing the past moments of life nor i was looking forward for future...i just wanted to live in present and never wanted it to end....





had to ride back 50kms in ghats at night, in rains and clouds it looks scary to imagine but it is a experience in itself to try once in life :P

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Way too much green in the pics

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i was the one who rode activa all the way from hyderabad-ooty-hyderabad...in terms of having fun...well depends on what defines fun ! for me that day fun was enjoying the view, keeping safety as my highest priority coz we rode in rains mostly and on damp roads most of time.....

FZ was good aswell ! it performed just as any 150 cc bike would perform where one had to downshift to 1st gear even on hairpin bends...and regarding powerloss....i doubt anyone would feel it bcoz it is just a mere 1 bhp...i would say negligible....but fuel injection did make the bike very responsive and fuel efficient(the areas which they were trying to improve fz)

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i sat here for almost 30mins enjoying the present moment of life.....these were those days when i was neither rejoicing the past moments of life nor i was looking forward for future...i just wanted to live in present and never wanted it to end....

I clearly understand what you meant by this.... Its to run away from routines of life that we head out to in search of places to give us peace like this. Im sure a lot of solo travellers will agree with me on this. They will surely have a grin on their faces, when what they see directly translates to a smile on their hearts, the effect of being one with nature. Beautiful pictures mate