Day 2: Kalpetta - Vythiri- Banasura Sagar DAM [-Manthavady-Nedumpoyil-Koothuparambu-Thalasheri

Today's plan was to visit Banasura Sagar dam via Vythiri, which rockkyy[Xbhpian] had suggested and head towards the drive in beach near Thalasheri. Thanks rockkyy the roads were very good and scenic. We checked out of hotel around 9 and headed towards Vythiri.


We parked our bikes outside the entrance of dam and carried all our luggage hoping we can drop it some where and visit the place, lucky we dropped all the luggage in the ticket counter and waited for the jeep to takes to the Dam. The distance was not more than a Km but we were in no mood to walk, we waited for the jeep for 20 mins which finally came, we boarded the jeep along with a couple and kid. The place was very crowded which made the place more beautiful.


So our next destination was drive-in beach. Finally it started raining, than i realized i had forgot to get rain gear for my bag which I had tied on the pillion seat. Went to some shop and got two big covers which worked well through out the trip.


Finally around 4 we reached Muzhapilangadi drive in beach, this is the only and longest drive in beach in Kerala.


We dumped in all our luggage in the room we got in the resort which was adjacent to the beach and came back running to ride in the beach again .


We could easily ride upto speed of 70 kmphr without any difficulties but if you stop the bike for more than a min this would happen


We were in the beach till 6, later we went into near by town to get booze and some snacks as we had skipped our lunch. We came back by 7, order food and we spent rest of the day wandering on the beach, chatting with resort owner and his friend till 11. [Ask chethan more about this ]. This place was very beautiful, we could hear to the wave even when we were in the room and this place is visited less by tourist I guess, as we saw only around 100 people many of them were locals.

Last 2 days. I know I am very late

Day 3: Muzhappilangad - Kasaragood - Mangalore
Distance: 170 kms

First thing in the morning we bikes and lubed the chains. It had started raining, after a short while we stopped to have breakfast.






This place was beautiful, Forts with greenery and ocean made it more beautiful. Spent enough time and left towards Mangalore.

Now rain started to pour down heavily, so did the average speed.

Roads got worse and to add to that the rains never stopped. We reached Mangalore by 4:30
PM but it took us 30 mins to search for the guest house we had booked for. Thanks to the locals, we were rounding the guest us but no one told the right location. Finally some school kid showed us the way. We decided not to visit the beach instead we shall go some nice place and have good dinner.

After riding through pathetic roads we decided not to take updpi road to reach Kodachadri instead go through agumbe. One of the many best decison () we took in the trip. And we decided to skip Sirsi, as even if we had visited Sirsi we couldnt have visited many places. So Sirsi we decided to visit next time.

We had a heavy dinner came back around 10 and crashed for the day. We could visit only one place today but it was worth it.

Day 4: Mangalore - Agumbe - Kodachadri
Distance: 210 kms
D Day for me, had waited for this day for more than a year. The plan for the day was to visit beach in Mangalore and head towards Kodachadri via Agumbe. I would like to put up more pictures than text to share my experience, Hmm I would tell this was one HELL of a experience.


Morning 7 AM we headed towards the beach, it was raining but it did not stop us from visiting it.



We came back to the guest house, packaged up things and left by 10 AM. It was smooth ride till Agumbe.







Wish I could have spend some more time but the time was running out, we had to reach Kodachadri before sun disappeared. When we inquired about the route towards Kodachadri, to our shock the guy said it was more 100 kms. Left immediately and headed towards Thirthahalli, the rain had eased a bit when we reached Thirthahalli, had lunch and inquired about the route, was not convinced by what local guys suggested, called up Akhil and asked for the direction who was a great help in directing in the right direction. Thank you Sir .

As soon as we left Thirthahalli, we came across a board which read Kodachadri 68 kms, there was big smile on our faces, started ripping. Time 3:30 PM, Ok roads, raining lightly.

Finally reached the base of kodachadri at 4:45 PM. Locals there suggested us to take the jeep as it was too dangerous to go now and we came to know the guest house was under re-innovation and Battara mane was full. We had only two options either halt in kodachadri base and ride up early morning or ride up. But I was very eager to ride up, convinced chetan some how and we started around 5:15 PM.



At this stage chetan asked whether we need to continue or head back. I said lets continue, even though my heart was pumping like mad. The rain had started, the fog started to cover us and the light was fading. Finally at 6:15 PM we reached the top. It was raining very heavily and the fog was too much to see anything.

I was thinking what made me ride up at this time, chetan wanted to ride down but I didn't have the balls to do that. It was very hard to convince him but I do the convincing very well you see. Finally spoke with the battarmane guys and got place for 2 of us to sleep.


I should say, this is the craziest thing I had done so far.People were surprised and obviously shocked to know we had come in bike. The asked about our trip, we had nice dinner and tried sleeping but we could hardly sleep in the cloud.

We some how got the signal and were able to contact Arjun from XBHP, he had planned to come to kodachadri the next day, but hearing our story he ditched the plans and said he will wait for us in Shimoga so we can ride back to Bangalore. So we decided we will leave early around 6 AM and tried sleeping again but in vain.

We were awake before the alarm could go off, chetan asked to come out and have a look outside, hmm there was nothing to see as we couldn't see anything because of the fog and it was raining heavily. We thought we would wait for some more time and time was 7:00 AM and the conditions were same. Our mobile batteries were very low by now and even we couldn't get network coverage. Finally we decided hell with the rain and fog and decided to make a move. Payed the bill, to our surprise it was 150 Rs for stay and (super) food.

As we left, we were drenched in 5 mins and we didn't care about the rain or fog. We enjoyed the ride down very much. But I have to say it, it was the toughest, craziest thing I had done in a long while. My bike turning radius or the tires didn't help me a bit. Chethan looked comfortable riding his P200 but I had to consider the ground clearance, the slippery tires because of the slush.


We headed towards shimoga, the roads were very bumpy and it was drizzling continuously. We wanted to catch the ferryboat at one place and head towards shimoga, this ferryboat saved us like 30 kms and more than 1 hour.

The batteries in our mobiles very dead by now and we 't contact Arjun who was waiting for us in Shimoga. Sorry a lot buddy.

We waited for the ferryboat for 20 mins, I was excited a lot because this was the other thing I had in my mind from long time. Travel in ferryboat with my bike.


The ferry journey was for 15 mins but it was lot of fun for me. Me and chetan were at opposite ends looking after our bikes. It cost us less than 20 Rs. Cheapiest transport I guess.

We made one more stop at Shimoga at some hotel, recharged our mobiles and ourselves, dried up clothes as the sun was out finally. Left shimoga by 4 PM.


We were in Bangalore around 8:30 PM, tired, happy and wanted a very good nap.


What a trip it was, total 1400 kms, 700 kms of rain ride, Ghats, Beaches, Fog, Hills, ferry ride and a found a great friend in Chetan.