It was due on my part to share this write up. This trip re instigated my desire to own a Royal Enfield and now I own an Electra ( it took some time to earn some thing which I paid at the Royal Enfield dealer against the machine).

^ststst halt was at a picturesque coconut garden. .Das rolled out his tripod and the DSLR and that was enough for giving complex to a small time professional photographer who was busy taking some photos of a newlywed couple. Pollachi is a picturesque town and shooting for Tamil cinema is very common here. Someone said the flick Billu Barber too was shot here.

At the foothills of Valparai, by Aliyar dam is where our photographic instincts reminded us of some photos to be clicked. Crossing that we paid the fees for entering into the Annamalai wildlife sanctuary and moved in. We were cautioned for the moving elephants on the roads and of the ferocious leopards too.

The 40 odd hair pins turns that followed took away any tiredness or hunger one must have felt. Ghat roads awaken the part of you that wants to take those sweeping turns, those sideliner burns and footpeg scrapes. It was fun, scary and also made us respect the rubber on the roads. At the 40^thrd