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Thanks Ketan, Howz your mom doing now?Originally posted by ketansrihas View PostNice trip !
Awesome clicks. There is a problem i am unable to see all the pics.
Any how, The log continues....Story till now is that we had enjoyed our stay at waterfall, So its time to reurn back. The journey begins from climbing those 408 steps.
. It was already sultry near the waterfalls and we were sweating horribly. There was full chance of we getting dehydrated. Adhish, prabhakar, Boo, Vishnu & shastry were still near the waterfalls. where as rest of started our trekking back to the lawn where our bikes were parked. We were already hungry and added to the humidty levels its was adding more to discomfort. Shashi who was already suffering from cold got the double bonanaza and he gave up just after some time and sat down. Me, Kiran and tejas were determined to reach the top first. As usual i was not using steps and climing over the hills. 
Tejas and kiran also almost lost and gave up, they settle down as the were not able to climb the steps. After a breif break, they start again.
Kiran & Tejas climbing back, Check tejas behind, Imagine how hot it was.

I was first to reach the top and i collapsed on the benches in the lawn, with cool breeez around it was bliss after that huge 408 steps journey.
. Later Kiran and Tejas reached the place where we parked the bikes, As the sun came out, it started sweating again. So me and kiran decided to take out our bikes and ride thorugh the jungle so that we could taste some cool jungle breeze.
, We took out bikes went off road in the trees, found a suitable place and started clicking pics for some time.
Two Brathers...
, Clicked while me and kiran went out to face some breeze.

Age old Beauty ZiMA in the Woods

Me and kiran started back to place where we parked our bikes, once we reached there we saw all others hae come there already and getting ready to start off our return journey. It was decided that we will reach Armoor (30kms from waterfalls) collect Shastry's Apache 150 (Which was ready) have our lunch and ride back. We also decided to stop at one of the view point and have a little photoshoot of all the bikes. So we started our ride back, Every one was ahead of me as I had to attend some calls from home.
. Surprisingly I see Adhish, Booo, shashi, Vishnu & Shastry (pillion on Vishnu's RTR as Shastry's A150 was given to repair) stopped beside the road. We came to know that Adhish's Eliminator has run out of petrol.
. We were in no mans land in the jungle, And next petrol bunk might be only after 20kms or more. So without wasting any time we took empty bottle and removed more than liter petrol from my Xtreme, So Adhish has limited fuel on his bike and he might not rip. So we all were riding slow I think, By this kiran has went far ahead and he was clicking pics at the view points. We started back once petrol was filled in Eliminator and reached the view point where we decided to click the pics.
Before Line up

Rides lineup for posing...L->R Adhish, Shastry, Vishnu, Prabhakar

Living by its caption, Parking on Edge
, BTW I like this pic.

Greenary Around, Imagine this place after monsoons.

Once the small photosession is completed, we rode back to Armoor to collect Shastry's Bike which was ready. We all were dehydrated, Thirsty & Hungry by that time. Prabhakar had the electrolye powder (dont know the name exactly, its a ORH Powder), He mixed that in the water bottle, we all had small sip of it to retain our water levels in the body and it was quite refreshing, after having one more packet of it along with mazaa
we had already planned to have out lunch here and time was already 5.00PM. The next 100kms is a 2 Lane highway which was not so good for night journey. While Booo was very hungry and he wanted to have lunch, somehow we all convinced him and decided that we would ride non stop 100kms to kamareddy from where the 4-lane high begins which would be very safe for night ride. It usally falls dark after 6.45pm here in hyderabad in this season. So we only have 90+ minutes to complete the 100kms before it completely falls dark. So its 100kms with less than 100min to complete. In this 100kms ride we say many faces of nature at a single point of time, It was raining one side, it was bright sunny other side and we were riding under the clouds.
. At one point of time it started raining heavily, Me and tejas who was my pillion stopped at a place for shade as it was raining heavily. After 5mins it slowed down, So we started to move again, But just after 5mins it started raining again, But we were determined to not stop anywhere even if it rains, Onely Me with tejas on my Xtreme and Vishnu on his RTR were riding togethor, Rest all were scattered because we had some target in our mind, that is 100kms in 100mins 
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We rode in heavy rain for almost 15mins, We were completely drenched..These was a close call for vishnu while the ride in the rain, He was trying to overtake a lorry, but surprisely a bus comes from other side, this made vishnu to panic he had to brake hard, and best part was he was also try to stop his bike with using shoes as his brake.
, Luckly it was a close call and we continued riding in the rain, I was actually enjoying the ride in the rain now. With my jeans, Shoes already wet and my helmet's visor came of from one side but did not stopped to fix it back as it was not causing any problem to me except water peeping on the my face. After the non-stop ride we finally reached the 4-Lane highway where kiran already reached there and we thougt that we were in the lead. 
We reached the place just before it was falling dark and time was around 6.45PM,
Once of the best view I have seen, Raining at one place and check out the sunlight behind the rain

Tejas, The Pillion.

So we were successfull in completeing out target of completeing 100kms in 100mins. I had two stops while these 100kms, Once for filling up petrol and once we had to stop to avoid rain. But still me and tejas completed it.
, Once every one reached the 4-Lane part, We decided to have something to fill in out hungry tummy's and booo was getting desperate. We started to ride back to the AP tourism restaurant where we had the breakfast in the morning. We all compeltely wet but hungry. WE came to know that only Veg Manchuria & Pakoda was available...We had to fill our stomachs...So we ordered them (dont remember how many plates we ordered 

) but we emptied all that the restaurant went out of manchurias. 
so continued with pakodas. After ending the snacks session it was time for the maincourse as all of us were still hungry, we found out that there was dhaba on other side of the road. So we all rode back to other side of the road and settled down in the dhaba, We ordered Chicken 65, Roti's, Dal fry, egg items...complementary to all was the sand like thing in all the items 
but we dint felt any difference so we continued eating it. 
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We had pretty discussions about Booo & Sumits Saddle sore and their adventures and Prabhakar's planning for his IBA run. once done with our dinner, we started back to ride and complete reaminaing 110kms journey to reach home. Since it was 4-Lane highway with proper illumination near the villages, it was a comfortable and easy ride for us to complete the last 100kms without any problem. WE reached the split point at 10.00PM and said OK TATA BYE BYE to everyone and reached home.
Phew...The log ends here.
2007 - Hero Honda CBZ Xtreme
2008 - Yamaha YZF R15
2009 - Hero Honda CBZ Xtreme
2013 - KTM 390 Duke
2017 - Yamaha FZ25
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Some pics from my end... for the last part of the log Riaz posted
Riaz using the leaf as his hat

Some pics clicked in the jungle when me & Riaz came for some breeze!



A bit of Off-Roading...

The sun shining through the woods...
A high shutterspeed click...

The two siblings

View of Clouds from the woods (1 of my favorite click
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X-treme

While others stopped by to check out the problem with Adish's Eliminator i missed them and stopped by the first view point we stopped before and had a 25mins exclusive time admiring the beautiful nature around





Slowly the others started coming...
Adish on his Eliminator

Shashi on his ZMA

Raghu aka Boo utilizing FZ-16's footwear to the max extent

All the bikes lined up...



Thats the place where i sat and waited for 25mins

After traveling some distance.. we could see this beautiful sight of rain falling at some point..
Riaz was already clicking pics with his cam... as it was in the middle of highway I did not have time to take out my cam and so used Riaz's cam only to take this pic

After a very heavy rain, the sun started shining high again...
Everything around us turned orange...
The below pics are not clicked in SEPIA mode.. it was really orange all around...



View of the sunset...




Clicked the below pics from the AP tourism restaurant while we were eagerly waiting for Manchuria and Pakoda


Last edited by kiran_borra; 07-18-2009, 02:04 AM.
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Awesome photos Riaz and Kiran. I loved all of them, especially the twilight pics and the bikes pics in the woods.
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Thanks Ravi....Originally posted by ravi@17bhp View PostAwesome photos Riaz and Kiran. I loved all of them, especially the twilight pics and the bikes pics in the woods.
Almost all through the trip we had the golden hour lighting, hence the output of the pics
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She is fine now, thanks bro.Originally posted by riazmomin View PostThanks Ketan, Howz your mom doing now?
Really the pics are great. After seeing the pics i wanna throw away my cam
(Kodak 10pix) made a mistake. What moolah did u spent on urs?
Finally the log came to an end (Ekta kapoor style)
Last edited by ketansrihas; 07-18-2009, 11:45 AM.--------
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Ha ha its not about the megapixels Ketan, its abt the optics...Originally posted by ketansrihas View PostReally the pics are great. After seeing the pics i wanna throw away my cam
(Kodak 10pix) made a mistake. What moolah did u spent on urs?
In that case my S3IS is only 6 Mp cam....
Presently S3IS/S5IS is not available in market..
You can go for Canon Powershot SX10IS which costs around 30k...
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Hmm you presented me gyan.Originally posted by kiran_borra View PostHa ha its not about the megapixels Ketan, its abt the optics...
In that case my S3IS is only 6 Mp cam....
Presently S3IS/S5IS is not available in market..
You can go for Canon Powershot SX10IS which costs around 30k...
30K
. I think there are more models to come
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After looking at someother cams, i wanted to throw out mine tooOriginally posted by ketansrihas View PostShe is fine now, thanks bro.
Really the pics are great. After seeing the pics i wanna throw away my cam
(Kodak 10pix) made a mistake. What moolah did u spent on urs?
Finally the log came to an end (Ekta kapoor style)


Yeah, log finally ended.
2007 - Hero Honda CBZ Xtreme
2008 - Yamaha YZF R15
2009 - Hero Honda CBZ Xtreme
2013 - KTM 390 Duke
2017 - Yamaha FZ25
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Through Them am ready to collect themOriginally posted by riazmomin View PostAfter looking at someother cams, i wanted to throw out mine too

Yeah, log finally ended.

anyways i read your entire log now ...
Good write up.
Thank you as your log acted as a timepass in this lonely saturday night shifts
Life is like riding a bike - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.~Albert Einstein
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Hehe...I would to throw it for some costOriginally posted by sidarth View PostThrough Them am ready to collect them
anyways i read your entire log now ...
Good write up.
Thank you as your log acted as a timepass in this lonely saturday night shifts



Anyways...thanks.
2007 - Hero Honda CBZ Xtreme
2008 - Yamaha YZF R15
2009 - Hero Honda CBZ Xtreme
2013 - KTM 390 Duke
2017 - Yamaha FZ25
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