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Re: South Indians trip to West India - Gujarat, Rajasthan - 16 days - 4800km
He he yeah.. It was giving pose well 
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Part 2:
03-02-2015 - Bhuj to Rann of kutch to Bhuj
04-02-2015 - Bhuj to Vigakhot to Bhuj
Initial plan was to Visit Vigakhot for the day to which we had to take permission from local BSF office. Vigakhot is the place where you can see Pakistan border from meters distance and it is a totally deserted place away from civilization. Early morning, while other's are getting ready, I,Akash and Karthik visited the BSF head quarters which was around 5km distance. The place was heavily gaurded and a BSF soldier told us directly that they cannot get the permission as they have some higher officials visiting the place. Disappointed but Akash was not ready to let that go easily. We tried to request and convince them but that soldier wouldn't budge. Suddenly another soldier came around and asked us what we are doing there. We requested him that we have come very far to visit this place and not ready to go with a disappointment. The kind soldier suddenly collected all our documents and stuff, took an application letter seeking for permission, asked us to return back tomorrow for the permission as it would take minimum of one day for the permission! We knew that from the blog, so we planned to visit the rann of kutch for that day.
We packed our bags and headed towards rann utsav happening at THE GREAT WHITE RANN OF KUTCH! There is a saying which goes like this in Hindi. 'kutch nahi dekha to kuch nahi dekha'! and oh my.. It was an amazing place!
While we were on the way, we stopped for a fuel station. And some guy pointed at my fellow rider that his petrol was leaking! It was Ajay's unicorn! Do not know how that happened, but it wouldn't stop. We tried with tools but it dint work. There was no service centre nearby too. In that moment we stopped one rider who was riding alone from chennai on KTM, who then became close and stayed with us for one day before parting ways. And for the leaking unicorn we rode back around 5km and found a mechanic who fixed it.
Finally we reached the great white rann of kutch. Salt and salt everywhere. Few car people told us not to go on the salt as it would get struck but who can resist the temptation!
Yummy fruit to munch on the way
The bullet rickshaws
The curious Cow
At rann utsav
pose dey
There is a story for the above pic. We were taking pics with our bikes and these bunch of girls were taking their own somewhere far. Then they came to us and said like "can we take picture with your bikes as well as with you? "! How about that.. We were celebrities then!! Oh.. we were no less of any celebrity too! We were like 'Oh sure.. please' like it happens all the time
He was boasting that his bike alone did not get struck and then this happened :P
View of sunset
[IMG]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/D7qI01WNIcwnPERksPDTmvgNRd1ywESQACKmh_hD4F8=w983-h553-no
We stayed till it gets dark
At first we thought of staying at the tent house setup there but it was costly upton 3k to 5k! We decided to go back to Bhuj later on. Hemanth, the guy on KTM also came with us and stayed over night at Bhuj and the next day he parted ways while we went for Vigakhot.
Day 5:
Packed our bags and we went to collect the permission letter from BSF quarters and then to head towards Vigakhot. But again for our surprise we came to know that all the application form we submitted is been lost
and no where to find. Again the same soldier came to rescue, collected all the documents over again and got us the permission in another 3 hours! When we started towards Vigakhot we knew we will be late while coming back. There were very less vehicles till Dharmashala (India gate) and we had to leave back all our cameras and stuff at the India gate army office. One soldier saw my gopro while entring the gate and asked to switch it off immediately. Hence from Indiagate to Vigakhot there are no pics taken. only memories!
Once we crossed India gate and head towards vigakhot, it was all waste barren lands till the eyes can see. No vehicles at all!! And no signs of human life as well. Occassionally we would see some wild animals. Only army vehicle patrol over there for evry few hours and we did not even see any of that as well.
Permission letter.
Few pics till India gate:
Dhokla for the breakfast
Drink tea - Gujarathi style
This is the soldier who helped
Storm coming
and the storm!
small white rann
The vigakhot is infamous for the 1962 India pakistan war where many of the indian soldiers were slaughtered by Pakistan army. A border post was constructed after that. We were allowed till the BSF post where a army general would guide you about the place. We can ask the questions we want and he would patiently answer each of them. It was nothing like what you see from here. All the hate which we see from here is not really exists there. It is the same land on the other side what we have this side only to seperated by fence. The generals from the both side meet on weekly basis for the flag meet, on the Indian side and talk about any local border issues on both sides. They do not use any phone communication, but just hoist some specific flag on the highest post and that would indicate them for a meet. They would in turn post another flag indicating the acceptance or denial.
Army general explained all our stupid questions patiently and then we headed back. Within few hundered meters, we met bunch of soldiers on their camps and they were happy to see us. They noticed our karnataka vehicle and called few of the kannadiga soldiers to meet with us. There were three kannadiga's and they made tea for us and was happily chatting with us for an hour. We were so heartful for the hospitality of those kind soldiers, they were in turn happy to see few people from Karnataka. As it was getting late we wished farewell and headed towards Dharmashala where we had to collect our camera and stuff.
We met this bikers and bikerni from Bangalore who came for Rann Utsav. we introduced each other,chit-chat and had coffee together and then we parted ways.
We reached back to Bhuj to the same hotel for the third day by around 10pm.
Part 3 coming soon.
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Part 2:
03-02-2015 - Bhuj to Rann of kutch to Bhuj
04-02-2015 - Bhuj to Vigakhot to Bhuj
Initial plan was to Visit Vigakhot for the day to which we had to take permission from local BSF office. Vigakhot is the place where you can see Pakistan border from meters distance and it is a totally deserted place away from civilization. Early morning, while other's are getting ready, I,Akash and Karthik visited the BSF head quarters which was around 5km distance. The place was heavily gaurded and a BSF soldier told us directly that they cannot get the permission as they have some higher officials visiting the place. Disappointed but Akash was not ready to let that go easily. We tried to request and convince them but that soldier wouldn't budge. Suddenly another soldier came around and asked us what we are doing there. We requested him that we have come very far to visit this place and not ready to go with a disappointment. The kind soldier suddenly collected all our documents and stuff, took an application letter seeking for permission, asked us to return back tomorrow for the permission as it would take minimum of one day for the permission! We knew that from the blog, so we planned to visit the rann of kutch for that day.
We packed our bags and headed towards rann utsav happening at THE GREAT WHITE RANN OF KUTCH! There is a saying which goes like this in Hindi. 'kutch nahi dekha to kuch nahi dekha'! and oh my.. It was an amazing place!
While we were on the way, we stopped for a fuel station. And some guy pointed at my fellow rider that his petrol was leaking! It was Ajay's unicorn! Do not know how that happened, but it wouldn't stop. We tried with tools but it dint work. There was no service centre nearby too. In that moment we stopped one rider who was riding alone from chennai on KTM, who then became close and stayed with us for one day before parting ways. And for the leaking unicorn we rode back around 5km and found a mechanic who fixed it.
Finally we reached the great white rann of kutch. Salt and salt everywhere. Few car people told us not to go on the salt as it would get struck but who can resist the temptation!
Yummy fruit to munch on the way
The bullet rickshaws
The curious Cow
At rann utsav
pose dey
There is a story for the above pic. We were taking pics with our bikes and these bunch of girls were taking their own somewhere far. Then they came to us and said like "can we take picture with your bikes as well as with you? "! How about that.. We were celebrities then!! Oh.. we were no less of any celebrity too! We were like 'Oh sure.. please' like it happens all the time
He was boasting that his bike alone did not get struck and then this happened :P
View of sunset
[IMG]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/D7qI01WNIcwnPERksPDTmvgNRd1ywESQACKmh_hD4F8=w983-h553-no
We stayed till it gets dark
At first we thought of staying at the tent house setup there but it was costly upton 3k to 5k! We decided to go back to Bhuj later on. Hemanth, the guy on KTM also came with us and stayed over night at Bhuj and the next day he parted ways while we went for Vigakhot.
Day 5:
Packed our bags and we went to collect the permission letter from BSF quarters and then to head towards Vigakhot. But again for our surprise we came to know that all the application form we submitted is been lost
and no where to find. Again the same soldier came to rescue, collected all the documents over again and got us the permission in another 3 hours! When we started towards Vigakhot we knew we will be late while coming back. There were very less vehicles till Dharmashala (India gate) and we had to leave back all our cameras and stuff at the India gate army office. One soldier saw my gopro while entring the gate and asked to switch it off immediately. Hence from Indiagate to Vigakhot there are no pics taken. only memories!Once we crossed India gate and head towards vigakhot, it was all waste barren lands till the eyes can see. No vehicles at all!! And no signs of human life as well. Occassionally we would see some wild animals. Only army vehicle patrol over there for evry few hours and we did not even see any of that as well.
Permission letter.
Few pics till India gate:
Dhokla for the breakfast
Drink tea - Gujarathi style
This is the soldier who helped
Storm coming
and the storm!
small white rann
The vigakhot is infamous for the 1962 India pakistan war where many of the indian soldiers were slaughtered by Pakistan army. A border post was constructed after that. We were allowed till the BSF post where a army general would guide you about the place. We can ask the questions we want and he would patiently answer each of them. It was nothing like what you see from here. All the hate which we see from here is not really exists there. It is the same land on the other side what we have this side only to seperated by fence. The generals from the both side meet on weekly basis for the flag meet, on the Indian side and talk about any local border issues on both sides. They do not use any phone communication, but just hoist some specific flag on the highest post and that would indicate them for a meet. They would in turn post another flag indicating the acceptance or denial.
Army general explained all our stupid questions patiently and then we headed back. Within few hundered meters, we met bunch of soldiers on their camps and they were happy to see us. They noticed our karnataka vehicle and called few of the kannadiga soldiers to meet with us. There were three kannadiga's and they made tea for us and was happily chatting with us for an hour. We were so heartful for the hospitality of those kind soldiers, they were in turn happy to see few people from Karnataka. As it was getting late we wished farewell and headed towards Dharmashala where we had to collect our camera and stuff.
We met this bikers and bikerni from Bangalore who came for Rann Utsav. we introduced each other,chit-chat and had coffee together and then we parted ways.
We reached back to Bhuj to the same hotel for the third day by around 10pm.
Part 3 coming soon.
I guess in all the trip if there was chance of we getting infected then that was the place where we should have been 
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