Re: Ride into the Jungle - OOTY, Masinagudi.

Approved!

Nice. Bring it on guys.

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Damn!! something is wrong with the pics.. Ill try to upload again :/ All are high quality pics

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I see them just fine.

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Nice start. Bring on the rest!

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Done... Phew!! Images were 2mb each and Xbhp made it to 10kb BTW Thanks for approving

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Every site does that. Remember you're hosting pics on xBhp's servers. It can't afford large files else upgrades would be needed soon.

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Re: Ride into the Jungle - OOTY, Masinagudi.

Wow that was a pretty good trip..

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Re: Ride into the Jungle - OOTY, Masinagudi.

Hello all. Sorry for the delay, The photo upload process is so slow. Ok Lets go back to the log

Day 1:
The start was epic.. The night before at 1am ( logically its the day we gonna ride ), i was sick. Vomiting sensation, headache and dizziness. I thought am not gonna do it and my parents are not gonna allow me because i didn't get enough sleep ( Sickness added to the joy of riding next day.. You guy know, right? ). So popped in an Antibiotic praying that everything is gonna be alright. And yea! the tablet helped me in two ways. Getting me some sleep till 4:30 am and curing my sickness.

So the alarm went off and i was off the bed in a jiffy. Checked whether this guy woke up in whatsapp and he was already Not everything was packed the night before, so packed everything and did morning chores and Bag was loaded. Got message From kmk that he started and he will be there at the meeting point in 20 mins ( Chrompet, Chennai - Shell petrol Bunk ) Sipped a Cup of Coffee in the meantime and i was off to the meeting point. He was already waiting there calling me Not my fault, he reached early as the roads were empty

It was 5:30am, I Filled my baby R at the Shell ( Yes, its 24 hours ) and took some snaps and we were off For the boring Highway Ride ( 480 Kms of Highway, Nothing else :/ ) We planned to have breakfast at Ulundurpet and lunch at salem. i guess it was 7:30 am and we reached Villupuram and i was already hungry. So had a superb and light breakfast at Vasantha bahavan - Villupuram. Add coffee to every break ( Yea!! am Caffeine addict ). We set off with a plan that we will have a power nap before salem as both of them didn't have enough sleep last night. By this time the Sun was up and you all know how hot Chennai and other parts of TN is.. We were in need of a good place so badly and couldn't find one easily. Finally we found a good place and i guess i had 10-15 mins of sleep. Not more than that. Had some water, checked the route and then off again

The beginning:



Powernap before salem :



Our rides Chilling out while we take a nap



Reached salem around 11 and now we did a huge mistake of going into the town in search of A2b hotel. Roads were pretty bad and people dont follow any traffic rules.. Utter Chaos it was and with the Sun Burning super hot, We were cursing ourselves for Getting into the town. People were looking at us like aliens.. " Who the hell are these people wearing these jackets in scorching heat? ". Added to that, Google was playing with us.. Showing us Routes that were so bad instead of straight ones Finally at around 11:45am we reached A2b.. We were the first ones to have Meals Had it super fast and we set off for another 200 odd kms journey. Mind it this includes climbing up in hills and i don't wanna do it in dark. Wasted almost 2 hours for our lunch and i know we are off the schedule. Had plenty of water and filled Our bottles and i told him, No stops until mettupalayam ( Bottom of the hill ). Got out of the town by following a bus and we were on track again.. To our Horror, we found a A2B on the highway immediately after the town with fuel station.. i was like WTF!! and Helmet-palmed ( lol ) and carried on.

And yea!! i forgot to mention.. The roads were Brilliant throughout the Whole journey. Highways were 4 lane ( except few stretches ) and you cant find any potholes the whole stretch. This helped us a lot to make up the time we lost and also we didn't get tired because of the super smooth roads. Finally reached Near Mettupalayam and then i saw a Tender coconut. Parked the Bike and Emptied 2 of them in minutes... Phew!! Was So good to drink after a long Highway ride in Hot sun. Confirmed the Routes with The seller and proceeded. Slowly the Hills started to appear and soon we were at the bottom, ready to climb..

Sipped 2 Tender Coconuts here




The Whole purpose of the trip starts here.. The Roads were so beautiful and the Corners were Fantastic.. You can Experience all type of corners here. I expected Hair pins like yelagiri ( Which are not so much fun ), But to my surprise, Only 7. Nearly 30 kms of corners.. Imagine the Face i had inside the helmet R15 Cut the corners like butter and i dint even feel like slowing down (except for trucks, which you have to overtake carefully). Overtaking is a challenge here. But thankfully many of the drivers were helpful. Truck drivers signaled us when to overtake and when not to. Sometime you get struck behind a large queue of cars struck behind a Bus that cant go past 30kmph. But these aside, It was pure joy to Ride on those roads. Atleast i was enjoying all the corners (Dunno how much he did on the zeemer. Let him comment on that ). We want to click pics almost everywhere, but we were running out of time. Clicked some pics here and there and moved on Enjoying the corners Good thing is that there was still light even at 7pm.

Climbing up with the wires



Sexy corners ready to be sliced by R15



The view


Some random shot while we had a cup of tea..



Me posing



This guy looks tired.. But R15 says " Common dude lets slice some more corners " (Tyre will tell how much fun i had )



By the time we reached Kothagiri, it was almost dark. And now, we searched for the location of our hotel in Google maps and i never knew this guy put it in walk mode. It showed a route so steep and after a few meters it was full of stones and its just a 1-feet path. Damn!! Asked the locals and they said bikes cant go this way and they showed the main route.. Finally reached the hotel and crashed into bed after a Nice dinner nearby. And kothagiri is such an amazing town.. Calm and chilly weather. I loved it better than ooty in fact.

End of the day...




To be continued....


PS: Am not so good at narrating. If you find it boring, please comment.. Ill make it short from the next day. Please be free to comment whatever you think Hope you guys enjoy the log

Re: Ride into the Jungle - OOTY, Masinagudi.

Nice narration ji..unfortunately I am not able to see any of the pics

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Problem on your side? Or mine? Its showing images for me..

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Could be mine. I will go home and check. May be office PC not loading high res pics

Re: Ride into the Jungle - OOTY, Masinagudi.

Few pics from my side from Day 1
This was right after having tender coconut.. Notice the canopy in front


Right after Mettupalayam we were awestruck looking at the mountains a quick picture before riding through the hills


Trying out something new


Elevation at each place.


One of the numerous tea plantations

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Sure.. Report me back if you still cant see

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Lovely updates guys. I am able to see pics.
Makes me wanna do Ooty again.