Re: Ooty!!! A perfect place for the summer ride

Travelogue approved.

Re: Ooty!!! A perfect place for the summer ride

Can't agree more with the first line of the post!
Nice trip btw!

Re: Ooty!!! A perfect place for the summer ride

Well brother. Most of the parents are scared because of frequent bike accidents reported daily. So when i say official they agreed to go. Otherwise i won't be able to find the key of my bike for a couple of days. I tell the destination and other details to my parents but the only thing am hiding is its a road trip. Its only for long distance travels. Otherwise no issues.

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When we say bike trips, people including our colleagues were like this: “Are you mad or are you out of your mind?? Bikes are meant for 50 kms ride in a day maximum. You guys are crazy!! Then they start commenting and criticising us. We don’t mind any of these as we are like this and we always wants to be like this.

Day -1
It all starts from the travelogue in FB to ooty. Got our bikes serviced and we all set. It was so hot and so hard to ride in the day especially in Palakkad area especially with your rain jackets on which really pints out the need of a mesh jacket. So we started early at 5 AM. The initial stop was at Thrissur for the breakfast. First time in Saravana Bhavan and it tastes so good.

Its better to have the originals of all the documents with you. We have to show them on the 3 check posts in Attappady. It’s a Maoist threatened area and stopping in the forest is not allowed. So miss the photographs. The reason for selecting this route was the hairpins and the corners. 50+ hairpins all the way from attappadi till ooty. Loved it and enjoyed each one of it. Wish I had a knee guard with me to scratch.

Saravana Bhavan


My beloved Angel


River in Attappady (Wish there were more water)


Kerala Check post


Hairpins






Random clicks between attappady and ooty

















We reached ooty by 4.30 P.M and pay a visit to the famous Botanical Garden








We got out from the botanical garden by 6.30 P.M. We found accommodation in near the botanical garden itself. It costs us Rs. 800 for 3 people. Being a mallu we always love porotta which is so costly in Ooty. One costs Rs. 20 wherein Kerala it’s only Rs. 10. We call it a day.

Re: Ooty!!! A perfect place for the summer ride

Day-2
Day 2 was full of surprises. We have to bath in cold water in the morning as hot water shall be available only after 8 A.M. The plan was to visit ST STEPHENS CHURCH, Ooty Lake, pine forest, Pykara Lake and waterfalls, then return to coonoor and then home via Palakkad. We have coonoor in mind from the planning itself and we don’t want to miss it. We started at 7 A.M. Vacated the room and had a hot tea. Then pursued towards the lake. Unfortunately the lake was closed. So we proceed towards the church. The next destination was pine forest and pykara. We had our breakfast from Pykara. It was 11.30 A.M when we finish our visits in Pykara. We have to get home before 11 P.M. So after some discussion and lots of regrets we decided to skip Coonoor and pursued on the gudallur route.

Needle rock view point was one of the major attraction in the in gudallur route. The route was awesome with good roads and awesome feel. Nilambur was a real treat to the eyes but the road works are undergoing. So you have to vigilant as corners are untarred mostly. After that we hate the route. So much hot, we increased the speed to 70-80 kmph. That time we found something so interesting on the road. I never ride in a big group. A group of around 12 bikers were in front of us. We added 3 more to the group and they accompanied us till Thrissur. Wow!! It was amazing to ride in such big group. Their signals and communications were awesome. They got the flow, the rhythm and it was so cool to see such a group of riders in the road. Many people clicked us and I feel so proud.

St. Stephens church


Ooty Lake


Pykara, Pine forests and the view points




















Needle rock view point









A Harley tribe. The Dainese leather jacket of one of the Harley riders makes me so jealous. Though he is not in the pic.



Kerala border


And we reached home at 10.30 P.M with lots of good memories.