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DAY 1
Everytime I sat amongst a group of tourers more often than not people use to talk about Auli, Everytime I use to visit a biking forum or a touring forum I used to find a lot of threads speaking about auli so finally I made up my mind to visit this coveted destination that kept me silent everytime it was talked about and to find out why is it so often spoken about.
The plan was very impulsive(the bikers itch) left @ 6 in the evening and as many would say it wasn’t the right thing to do but it was amongst those expcetional times when everything just falls into place when you don’t even plan them in advance and take chances.so I left 6 in the evening took the delhi –yamunanagar-roorkee-haridwar-rishikesh-shrinagar-rudrapryag-jyoshimath-auli route. Ya I know its insane why would I take NH-1 to go towars auli , well the reason being my cousin who live in karnal who accompanied me on this trip wasn’t too comfortable travelling alone on the karnal yamunagar route @ night so instead of meeting me @ roorkee I met him @ karnal and rode together. We reachd @ 1:00 AM rishikesh where we stopped for the night. Being kumbh and arnd 1 at night room weren’t easily available so it took us a while to find a room in rishikesh. The room that we got was a rs 150 room for which we ended up paying 350 for obvious reasons.
This might not help people from delhi but for xbhpians from karnal –kurushetra area the yamunanagar road aint the best of the lot and strictly not to be travelled at night atleast not for the first time tourers no street lights a lot of pot holes the only positive was that there was less traffic , but once u complete first 50kms on this road the road gets much better still no street lights but was nt a issue with 220s projector lamps. So once the first 50kms stretch of road was over (not that there was any road) the bike was easily cruising at 90 and the road was almost butter smooth till rishikesh.
Our arrival in haridwar was greeted by a lot decoration and lighting as if they knew we were coming but being less optimistic and applying our common sense we ended on a conclusion that it must be coz of kumbh mela . I have been to haridwar and rishikesh numerous numer of times but its never looked this beautiful ever before. Worth seeing for every Indian I believe and for everybody who missed it I clicked a few pictures as consolation not that it does any justice to wat my eyes say but something better that nothing.
my couisn ricky aka yogesh
haridwar all lit up
Crossed haridwar enjoying the beauty and with the wide grin on my face coz riding at night helped me deceive the traffic that I would encountered in haridwar being kumbh (though riding at night is not advisable , this threas should have a parental guidance tag I believe )
So took a overpriced room in rishikesh near the bus stand and slept for the night wondering wats there in auli that its so often talked about .
Everytime I sat amongst a group of tourers more often than not people use to talk about Auli, Everytime I use to visit a biking forum or a touring forum I used to find a lot of threads speaking about auli so finally I made up my mind to visit this coveted destination that kept me silent everytime it was talked about and to find out why is it so often spoken about.
The plan was very impulsive(the bikers itch) left @ 6 in the evening and as many would say it wasn’t the right thing to do but it was amongst those expcetional times when everything just falls into place when you don’t even plan them in advance and take chances.so I left 6 in the evening took the delhi –yamunanagar-roorkee-haridwar-rishikesh-shrinagar-rudrapryag-jyoshimath-auli route. Ya I know its insane why would I take NH-1 to go towars auli , well the reason being my cousin who live in karnal who accompanied me on this trip wasn’t too comfortable travelling alone on the karnal yamunagar route @ night so instead of meeting me @ roorkee I met him @ karnal and rode together. We reachd @ 1:00 AM rishikesh where we stopped for the night. Being kumbh and arnd 1 at night room weren’t easily available so it took us a while to find a room in rishikesh. The room that we got was a rs 150 room for which we ended up paying 350 for obvious reasons.
This might not help people from delhi but for xbhpians from karnal –kurushetra area the yamunanagar road aint the best of the lot and strictly not to be travelled at night atleast not for the first time tourers no street lights a lot of pot holes the only positive was that there was less traffic , but once u complete first 50kms on this road the road gets much better still no street lights but was nt a issue with 220s projector lamps. So once the first 50kms stretch of road was over (not that there was any road) the bike was easily cruising at 90 and the road was almost butter smooth till rishikesh.
Our arrival in haridwar was greeted by a lot decoration and lighting as if they knew we were coming but being less optimistic and applying our common sense we ended on a conclusion that it must be coz of kumbh mela . I have been to haridwar and rishikesh numerous numer of times but its never looked this beautiful ever before. Worth seeing for every Indian I believe and for everybody who missed it I clicked a few pictures as consolation not that it does any justice to wat my eyes say but something better that nothing.
my couisn ricky aka yogesh
haridwar all lit up
Crossed haridwar enjoying the beauty and with the wide grin on my face coz riding at night helped me deceive the traffic that I would encountered in haridwar being kumbh (though riding at night is not advisable , this threas should have a parental guidance tag I believe )
So took a overpriced room in rishikesh near the bus stand and slept for the night wondering wats there in auli that its so often talked about .
There were strectches of roads on hills where my 220 even reached late 90s and at times touching 100km/h (parental guidance :explicit content) though there were small patches of road that can t be called road but off roads but other wise 85% of road after rishikesh till jyoshimath are butter smooth and one can practice enough bending and leaning to come back and brag about it.
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