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"The Pool Of Tears"^thEarly morning view of Zuluk loop, and what a view it is.



Buddha Park in Ravangla near pelling (East Sikkim)


Two gorgeous ladies in one frame


Ray of Hope, which keeps one motivated to do all the crazy things they like to do



Thambi View point, this is a name of engineer who desgned or made this road, for detailed info read Wikipedia



Mojo taming the mountains



Every living thing looks so beautifull you should have that eye to see the beautiful things around you



Lady Shahrukh Khan in the frame


Let me give you a big hug to keep me safe and showing me places



Yeh dekho, Aisa desh ha mera



How do they see from such hairs on their eyes



Addicted towards photography



thats what we are



we were mesmerized after seeing such a wonderful view and ofcourse the Buddha statue



Dont miss on those carvings



be like a prayer flag always colorful and flying high


nature provide with so much of sweetness..



the family whom we met on our way to pelling was so so happy to see us

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Update awaited.

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I must say that you trip looks amazing and even forcing me to hire a bike and plan a trip from New Delhi and visit all these sites. Love your photographs...I have planning a group tour from Delhi where we plan to first enjoy a sightseeing tour in New Delhi with Santram Holidays and then visit Rishikesh, Haridwar, Gangotri, Dharamshala and from here we will drive towards East India in a 16 seater tempo traveller in Delhi from Santram Holidays. Thanks to you, I have not some must see sites which we will definitely add in our tour.

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CHAPTER 11 - “DAY 11”

“Roads, No roads – Adventure Next Level”

Day 11 (Tuesday) – 29^th Nov 2016

Route - Pelling – Tukwar Tea garden – Darjeeling

Kms – 80kms


We woke up with very very bad body ache, all signs of off roads were showing up, each and every bones and muscles were painfully crying. We woke up with hope of not facing anymore off roads going forward.

Somehow, we woke up and went downstairs for some breakfast <Puri baji, bread butter Jam, upma, coffee> and from there on we planned to visit a Buddha temple which was just 5 kms from our hotel.

We rode up till the temple and sat there for 15 minutes, somehow i always feel that Buddha temples are way too peaceful then other temples which I have visited since childhood <my personal opinion>. No chaos, No fight, No security. It was all so peaceful..

We bought prayer flag from the nearby shop and proceeded back to our hotel since we planned to reach Darjeeling. Initially when we rode from Darjeeling to Gangtok we took a different route and now we were supposed to take a different route altogether that is from Tukwar tea garden. When Sachin first mentioned this name, I had some strange butterflies in my stomach the name itself sounds so adventurous “The Tukwar”

Riding to Pelling on broken roads, just to visit one place was not at all worth and still again we were about to repeat same mistake of riding from Pelling to Darjeeling via Tukvar tea garden. How? Read on…

I would like to repeat this again that don’t follow anybody’s travelogue blindly and why iam saying this? All your questions will be answered….
We came back to our hotel and quickly took a power nap, geared up and went downstairs to complete the checkout formalities. I loved the way hotel staffs treated us by putting up the white scarf around our neck and saying some prayer lines while doing so. We were overwhelmed by their lovely way of bidding adieu J we waved them good bye and proceeded.

We rode back on same off roads up to 20 kms which we rode the night before. My shoulders, neck and hands were badly in pain because of sitting posture of CBR. Seriously Honda CBR is not so good on off roads, it completely pressurizes your hand and shoulders. Somehow, I was hoping that just few more kms of off roads and then we will ride on better roads till Darjeeling but who knew that Day 11 is going to be worst day of our complete journey which will keep on giving nightmares till the time we are alive :-D

We thought that, as we will proceed ahead the roads will start getting better but to our horror the roads started disappearing with every passing kms. We started facing multiple landslides, muddy roads, stones all around and what not.

For a moment, we thought that we have lost our way but when we enquired we came to know that we are on correct path infact they said that roads are still better going forward we wouldn’t even find that. The truck walla said that better don’t go to Darjeeling via Tukwar tea garden because atleast here you have got just stones on roads to ride on but there you will find no roads at all, moreover it is too narrow and 70-degree uphill which will make your life and ride more tougher.

We are so stupid and hopeful that we thought that the truck wala was just kidding around and making us more horrified and since we already rode for some 100 kms of offroads from Pelling it’s not good to change the plan and return back to square zero. So we continued in hope of finding better roads which was never happening.

After listening to so much of negativity from all the local people who were asking us to not ride to Darjeeling Via Tukwar, we took a water halt to calm down our high Blood pressure. My body was already in bad pain because of yesterday’s offroads and I was also feeling bit feverish so Sachin asked me to take Crocin which would help me to ease my pain and we also decided that – “ab yaha tak ah gaye ha tho agge bi kar lenge” < Now since we have rode till here we will complete our ride further. Just be careful>

We prayed almighty to keep us safe and proceeded ahead, as we rode for some 15-20 kms I heard Sachin saying over the Bluetooth that his bike slipped on a muddy road and he had a fall, I quickly parked my bike and ran to his rescue but thanks to trucks drivers and tempo drivers they were already there to help Sachin and his bike. We saw each other and laughed hilariously. Sachin explained me about how everything happened and I was laughing uncontrollably, his saddle bag, bike was completely drenched in mud <thank god he was wearing helmets otherwise imagine his brown muddy face:-D>

Ride and life is all about unexpected things, infact I think that it is the unexpected things that spice up the life but sometimes it also gives shock..

We were anticipating that roads would get better and we would be able to ride peacefully but roads started getting more horrible after every passing kilometer. My body was already in bad pain because of bad off-road while going to Pelling and the same was happening today too which was more eviler than Pelling road.

We stopped for a water break, we claimed our stones and parked our butt, we had a packet of Good Day Biscuit and then I had a tablet of Crocin because I was also trapped with fever and body pain and I already started feeling uneasy because of bad roads, completely unaware of what’s going to happen with us going forward. But we were determined to reach our destination.

We asked couple of trucks drivers to confirm the route which goes to Darjeeling via Tukwar tea garden and they made their faces such as if we are asking them a suicide point. One driver was too happy to know that we are from Mumbai and that to from Navi-Mumbai because he initially stayed there for 5 years and then came back to his home town. We were actually very thankful to him because he dropped us till the spot from where the horrifying Tukwar tea garden roads start. The beginning of the road was itself very dangerous, the courteous man waved us bye and showed us thumps up to succeed this dangerous route.

The road was very very narrow with very dangerous uphill 70 degree sharp turns with extremely bad roads and loose soils. One mistake and your fall was definite. Moreover, when you have a bend rim and tube inside your rear tyre your mental state will be on toss.

When you ride uphill you must make sure that your bike doesn’t turns off and that was exactly why we were riding too cautiously continuously holding the half clutch. The sharp uphill turns were so dangerous that you have to be ready to pay a fall any moment moreover if there is some vehicle which is coming downwards you have to apply brakes and stand in 70-degree posture till the time vehicle doesn’t pass you, because ideally everybody is in hurry and somebody has to stop, so let it be you because you are riding 2 wheels and not mini bus because they won’t fall but you would.

The roads were turning into nightmare when the uphill started becoming more dangerous, every time I saw Sachin rear wheel skid my heart beat gave a skip and it use to make me more fearful to cross that patch. The roads were never-ending <khatam hone ka naam hi nahe le raha tha> I don’t know why were we riding on these suicidal roads?

A very important advice to all of you whose reading this travelogue – Never ever adhere to any bodies travelogue blindly or without any prior research because that can proof hazardous for you because something similar happened with us, never mind mistakes teaches you many things and this was one of it. But at least we want you guys to not repeat the same mistake as ours.

We read a TL where we saw people descending from Tukwar tea garden and not ascending. We thought that if we people are using this route it would be really interesting and here is how we made a mistake - they were descending which was way much easier to do on those roads rather than ascending on such a steep hill with extremely bad roads. Our half clutch is still weeping because of 3^rd degree torture we did to them. Take a hint from whatever you read, ask questions on that TL if you don’t understand anything and do a thorough self-study before taking any decision.

Sun was about to set and Darjeeling were nowhere seen, I begged god to keep sun light for bit longer today because by no ways I was riding on those suicidal roads in dark, we enquired few local people about distance to reach Darjeeling and all of them were giving us a strange look because obviously we were the only bikers riding on those curls which was very unusual for them.

The strange thing which happened during this ride which made me feel more nearer to god was- I prayed god to keep the lights until we reach Darjeeling and to our surprise, it was 6.30 in the evening, sun normally sets at 5 or so but only that day it happened that sun was set but there were still some light in sky which made things clearly visible to us. Seems light was left just for us to complete our ride. Yes we completed our ride and reached Darjeeling in proper light. It may sound very unrealistic but this is what happened that day

We went to same hotel in Darjeeling where we did our breakfast, dinner and lunch previously, we ordered for some chowmein and hot tea. We booked same hotel “Pahadi soul” which was more expensive than our previous booking because we did not get online booking since all the apps “MMT, Goibibo etc” were showing us incorrect information of all rooms occupied which wasn’t the case. When we enquired from the hotel reception they said that all the rooms are available and there might be some glitch, anyways so the good thing was we reached Darjeeling safely without a single fall and our bikes were doing great too we just had to check the air pressure and we were good to go further tomorrow..

When we reached hotel we thought to take a power nap which went beyond just a power nap, when we woke up it was clocking 9.00 p.m. We planned to visit Mall road on our 2^nd visit to Darjeeling and we even did that but by the time we reached that place it was already closed, entire Darjeeling shuts by 8.00 p.m. sharp you won’t find a single animal past this hour. Luckily, we found a Pizza shop open which helped us to fill our hungry stomach and also we found it safer than all the spicy food we were eating since so many days

It was 4^th day of continuous riding on bad roads, our body was so much in pain that every part of body was demanding rest. We realized that it really requires lot and lot of strength in your body to do something like this. Thanks to our regular exercising which helped us a lot to succeed such painful situations.

Day 12 was our longest ride because we were about to enter mighty Meghalaya


Ye hasi wadiyon, Ye khula Asama



Lucky People who get to stay here







Dogs the most loyal friend of Humans



One of the largest Monastery



It feels so peaceful here



Lets Fly high






God always keep us fresh like this flowers



Lets spread the freshness and good aroma wherever you go



Gorgeous



We were waiting for landslides to clear up



Happiness to beat all the problems and keep moving



Pagalpanti bi jaruri ha










The terrible, dangerous, nervewracking Tukvar Tea Garden - The pic might look cool but don't mislead yourself



Sun was set but he kept the brightness for little longer that day

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Awesomeness continues!
Superb pictures!

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Great write up guys.. Keep on riding!!

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Thank you all who kept reminding us to update the Thread And we promise to complete this ASAP!

Checkout the Vlog of 11th Day here:

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Nicely compiled!

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Neat tripping guys!

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Fantastic trip. Amazing clicks. Keep riding and exploring. May you folks keep riding forever

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This is a dream life u guys are living...i am amazed

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CHAPTER 12 - “DAY 12”

“Wroomers Moonlight adventure”

Day 12 (Wednesday) – 30^th Nov 2016

Route - Darjeeling – Guwahati - Shillong

Kms – 593 kms

Every part of body was in so much pain that waking up in the morning took us 30 mints to just get out of the bed. Darjeeling was as cold as before but on our 2^nd visit we were not feeling so cold may be because our body was immune to cold weather now. We had our breakfast and left Darjeeling on happy note because we accomplished all those things which we dreamt of while going to Gangtok from Darjeeling and now coming back to Darjeeling and moving ahead with our next dream list.

Frankly for today we did not planned anything. We just wanted to go with the flow though we were very clear that our next destination is hitting Meghalaya.
Sachin loves tea garden, throughout our journey he was in search for same and that is exactly why we took Tukwar tea garden route but frankly Tukwar tea garden was not so satisfying, he did not even click any shots as well

To our surprise while descending from Darjeeling iam not sure which route we took but that route was one of the most beautiful scenic roads to sight, filled with tea garden at both the sides of roads. Sachin was finally satisfied seeing the roads and enjoying the view, yes we were regretting big time to have taken Tukwar garden route only because we wanted to view some tea garden. Iam not sure how we missed that beautiful tea garden route while ascending to Darjeeling previously, might be when we asked for a route to Darjeeling somebody would have misled us. Never mind we were glad to have atleast met those lovely route on our return leg.

We stopped to refill our tank at the nearby petrol pump where we also checked the air pressure of tyre because of off roading we did the day before, having 2 bananas we proceeded ahead with our journey. The roads to reach Guwahati was very picturesque with Tea garden throughout our journey but with single lane roads so being cautious was not optional.

We were talking over the Bluetooth about staying in Guwahati but then we also discussed that Shillong is just 100 kms from Guwahati with awesome roads, normally people call Shillong roads as a race track because of exquisite tar road. Now we were highly confused because according to stats we would reach Guwahati at around 12.00 a.m and reaching Shillong would take couple of hours more.

Descending Darjeeling ghat itself took 4 hours and then reaching Guwahati and then Shillong, it was impossible and stressful to do such a tedious ride after 4 days of offroading ride and Zuluk circuit without a single break but then we thought to just go with the flow and see weather our body was ready to take a beat.

We stopped after few kilometers again to check the air pressure of my bike tyres because I felt something wrong while applying brakes and to our horror the person at petrol pump who filled the air pressure was wrong and we doubted him at the same time when he said that our rear trye is having just 14 points <both the bikes>. I can understand about my bike because my rear wheel had a rim bend but Sachin rear tyre had nitrogen filled in it so how come his tyre have just 14 points which was so unlikely to happen, but somehow we thought that because of so much off-roading and bad roads it can be possible.

Later when we checked the pressure our front tyre was showing 42 points and rear tyre 57 points in it. Few people in our country is such that just for few bucks anybody can kill and ruin anybody else’s lives. If he would have asked us for 20 bucks we would have given him 30 but he shouldn’t have done anything like this which could have cost a life just for negligible amount.

By evening i.e. 8.00 p.m. We were still 150 kms away from Guwahati, we skipped our lunch because somewhere back of our mind we wanted to ride till Shillong which would make it easier for us to explore Meghalaya more the next day.

We stopped at some small shop at the highway for a tea and some snacks because we were not at all able to find any better place where we could have stopped and eat something. The shop was taken care by an Assami couple <i guessed it because of the attire of women she was wearing a saree in assami Style it was lovely >. When we reached there and asked them for a tea, they were so courteous that though they almost closed there shop and was all set to leave for their home, still the lady made a tea for us and also served some Noodles which they made for their dinner. They were so nice that they served us whatever they had us to serve, they could have said us “NO” but they opted to treat us, though Noodles were very spicy and we just had a spoon of it but still we were happy that at least these people treated us with whatever they had to serve us without saying NO.. :-) Its good to say YES rather then saying NO just for humanity sake..

Frankly in Mumbai if we visit any place during closing hours the shopkeeper will never entertain anybody, I don’t say that everybody are such but maximum people tend to say choose simple path of "NO"

After lovely mind opener tea we resumed our ride. Darkness started getting deeper and deeper as we were busy killing kilometers when finally we understood that it was 11.00 p.m and we were still 60-70 kms away from Guwahati.

We stopped for a quick dinner because I was fasting the next day <Thursday> and the new day was about to get started in few minutes. We stopped somewhere at dabba and ordered egg masala and rice since I did not wanted to have non veg food because of my fast, I ordered for veg fried rice.

It took us 10 mints to explain that person about what veg food actually meansbecause Chicken and egg is just normal food for them which is part of every food. In 15 mints our food was done and served to us. Sachin was good with his food but when I saw my fried rice, the rice was covered with Sugar atleast 50 gms sugar was sprinkled over the fried rice.

We called the person and asked him about the sugar and he said its the normal custom they follow. I removed the layer of sugar and started eating, somehow the rice was stinking bad so just after having a spoon I left the entire rice. It was my fast tomorrow and having no dinner and no lunch made me feel too weak but at that moment I did not wanted to have anything and spoil my internal system so without any arguments we left from the spot to ride till Guwahati.

Sachin was convincing me to stay in Guwahati but anyhow I wanted to reach Shillong instead of staying in Guwahati because than we had to ride hard the next day too.

By 12:30 we reached Guwahati and we were surprised by the bad traffic of trucks covering all the roads without leaving any space for even bikes to move. It took us another 45 minutes to actually reach the race track of shillong.

We took a short halt at the toll naka from where the real fun was about to get started. We were feeling too tired and exhausted after the continue hectic riding for so many days including the off roading and all but still even at 12:30 am in the morning we were feeling excited to ride on superb tar of Shillong. We were also regretting of not riding on those roads during day time because race tracks can be enjoyed more when sun is up for better visibility, but again if we would have kept those 100 kms of patch for the next day we would have ruined our next day’s plan which we did not wanted to happen.

The roads to Shillong was superb but continuous curves and that too after hectic and long day made us feel too dizzy-vizzy. Iam sure if we would have rode there in morning we would have enjoyed it more with fresh mind.

We took some fruits from the fruit shop at highway, it was strange to find those shops still open even at 1.00 in the morning and lovely ladies selling those stuffs <Seems north east is really safest place in India>

We reached Shillong at 1.30 a.m. and checked in hotel which we booked via Ohio. Thanks to Google maps which helped us to locate the hotel because there was not even single person to help us with the location of hotel and whenever we waved some car to stop and asked them for help, they used to accelerate more harder and run away.

Obviously with all our gears and our attire we indeed look like Mangal daku <Some robbers on bike> :-D

Property which we booked via Ohio was really huge and good. I did not even wash my face and crashed on bed to get some kick on sleep.

We were very excited for Day 13 because finally we were about to see the Slices of heaven on planet earth :-)


Somewhere between the nature...NIRVANA



Riding around Assam..Loads of tea garden across the roads..



Not even half way and Sun was all set to say us "Good Bye"

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Really awesome pics and write up, waiting for Shillong part as I have done my schooling from Shillong, and will go someday on motorcycle there for sure.
Waiting for your next write ups is like waiting for Baahubali part 2 and why Kattapa killed Baahubali..

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Awesome bike, Great ride, Strong couple, keep it up guys. You are doing great work together.
Dharamshala Tour

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Couple goals😍