North East India - 20161001 (18 days)

Been to north east india recently. Travelled around on Road.

Some numbers:

2 country borders, 4 States, 6 bikes, 8 people, 18 days, ~3500kms covered.

I will try to give the itinerary and points to consider on each of the places.

Day 1: Landing in Guwahati (Haven’t done much, time went in meeting teammates, finding place to eat etc).

Day 2: Collecting bikes and test ride.

Day 3: Towards Tawang, covered Kaziranga, stayed in Tejpur.

Day 4: Went up to Bomdi-la. Went further and stayed in Dirang. 

Day 5: Left comfortably. Went to Tawang. 

Day 6: Headed back towards Guwahati. Stayed in Bomdi-la Monastery.

Day 7: Headed towards Phuentsholing, Bhutan. Started searching for staying option from 4pm, got a place after 100+ kms, 4hrs later in Pathsala. 

Day 8: Reached Phuentsholing, didn’t get permit. Stayed there for the night.

Day 9: Headed back, and stayed in Pathsala again.

Day 10: Reached Shillong, and stayed there.

Day 11: Visited Chirappunji. Rode in clouds, was good experience. Stayed in Shillong.

Day 12: Visited Dwaki, Bangladesh Border, Living roots bridge. Stayed in Shillong

Day 13: Reached Kohima, Nagaland.

Day 14: No bikes day. Went to Konoma valley, Kisama Heritage village and World war 2 memorial. Had rice beer. Stayed in Kohima.

Day 15: Roads were unpredictable. Anil was sick. Stayed in Mokokchung.

Day 16: Went on ferry through Brahmaputra, to Majuli Island, Assam.

Day 17: Came back to Guwahati, gave the bikes back.

Day 18: Visited Kamakya Temple, headed back to Bangalore.

Manali -> Leh -> Srinagar Enfield Ride

Time: 15th June, 2015 to 27th June, 2015
Distance Covered: approx 1700kms

Places of Interest : Manali, Rohtang Pass, Sissu, Balaracha pass, Sarchu, Pang, Leh, Kardung La, Nubra Valley, Hunder, Pangong Tso Lake, Tikshey, Kargil, Drass, Srinagar.

Organizers : Ride of My Life

It was one of the awesome experience to ride bike in those ranges.

Photos:

Amrish Patel's Camera
Anmol's Camera
Shishir's Camera

Anmol's Video in Youtube

Thailand (May 19th - May 28th 2015)

Been to Thailand with Wife and kid.

Covered Phuket, Pattaya and Bangkok.

Fantesia show, Phi Phi island, city tour of phuket, coral island of pattaya, sriracha tiger zoo, underwater world, gems factory, Alcazar show, wild safari & marine park, tiger temple, floating market, bangkok city tour were some of the highlights.

Enjoyed the trip.

Road trip to Odissa and back

Car : Nissan Sunny
People: Sacchi, Shishir and me.
Distance Covered: 3483.1 kms
Time: 105hours


Day 1 (March 5th, 2015): BLR (4:50pm) -> Ongole (3:20am) - 644kms
Day 2: Ongole (9:15am) -> Srikakulam (9:00pm) - 640kms
Day 3: Srikakulam (7:00am) -> Chilka Lake -> Konark -> Cuttuck (9:40pm) - 506kms
Day 4: Cuttuck (2:30pm) -> Rajahmundry (2:00am) - 655kms
Day 5 (March 9th, 2015): Rajahmundry (10:00am) -> Hyderabad -> Bangalore (1:30am) - 1040kms.

More about this trip in detail @ Medium

Srilanka - 2014

Recently went to Srilanka:

Here is the Image of places we had been to:

More information on trip is @ medium :  https://medium.com/@tumballi/unforgettable-11-days-srilanka-b7ea4464539f

Pondicherry and Mahabalipuram - 23rd-25th Aug, 2014

Vehicle: Innova
Total Distance: 807kms
People: 3 families (Me, Pallavi, Achintya), (Shreedharanna, Bhagya, Aadya), (Manu, Shreenidhi)





NOTE:
1. NH66 (road from Krishnagiri to Gingee) is totally screwed up. There are boards everywhere about 'Work in progress', but no sign of any work, materials, construction vehicles or workers anywhere.

2. Be warned about visiting Pondicherry on Sunday, lot of places may be closed for the afternoon, so you would be left with no activities (if not planned in advance).

3.  Don't take the Horse ride (in Mahabalipuram especially) if you are alone or just 2 people. Especially, if you don't know Tamil. It may turn out to be disaster than that of pleasure ride on the beach. Better to make a deal in group.

Bheemeshwara - 2014 Jan 3rd

This was done as a trip to take my wife out on her birthday. I had heard about the place a lot of times, but never had got a chance to visit it even though it was < 60kms from my native.

This time, as I was jobless, made sure I have time for visiting this place. Went there with my wife, son, a cousin (Pooja) and aunt (Anita). Had taken food from home, but if one needs, the priest's family can prepare the food.

It is one of the really nice/calm place at the core of western ghats.

Enjoyed the trip! and bath in the cold, serene water of Bheemeshwara.

http://www.discovershimoga.com/bheemeshwara-temple.html has some info of the place!

Andaman Island visit with family - October 2013

Been to Andaman & Nicobar Islands for vacation with family (extended). It was an amazing trip overall...

People who went along with me : my wife, and kid, mother, father-in-law,mother-in-law, sister, brother-in-law, nephew, uncle, aunt, their two daughters :-)

places visited, events done:

Cellular Jail,
Lime Stone cave,
jarawa reserve,
Mud Volcano,
Ross&Smith island in digalipur,
mangrove forests,
Ross Island,
Sea Walk,
Havelock Island, (went to Havelock in Makruzz).
Snorkelling,
Scuba diving.
Radhanagar beach,
Elephanta beach.
Carbyns Cove beach,
Mount Harriet National Park,
Chatham Saw Mill (Once Asia's largest saw mill).
Archaeology museum.
Sea museum (Samudrika)

And shopping for shells, bamboo etc...

it was overall 9 days and 8nights in Andaman, and two nights in train from BLR->Chennai, and back.

Huthridurga (ಹುತ್ರಿದುರ್ಗ ) - 2013June29

Target : An Easy trek for the beginners
People : Red Hat colleagues (27 in number including me).
Transport : Bus

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Photos from MS Vishwanath Bhat's Album

Photos from Avra

Photos from VarunM and RameshA

Dharamshala and Kangra - HP

18th May reached McLeod Ganj (sub-urb of Dharamshala) after seeing 2 temples (chamunda Temple and Baijnath temple on the way.

19th Visited Kangra temple, and then Kangra Fort. It was a good place, but it was very sunny. Not a special place for our wedding anniversary. After getting back to Bhagsu, visited Tibetian temple where Dalai Lama resides. Due to IPL matches in Dharamshala during the same time, the area was very crowded.

20th May, we left towards Chandigarh.

Map of our Car Trip here.

Photos of the trip are here

mysore - 10/10/10

People : Mahima & Raju, Bhagyashree & Shreedhar, Pallavi & Amar
Vehicles: Zen, Thunderbird
Days : 10th and 11th

It was navaratri time, and mysore was sort of full.. we did nothing but roamed around palace area, eat, sleep, visit betta, eat, got back to bangalore.

First bike trip for more than 350kms after marriage..

New Mexico

Dates : 20-22 November, 2009

People : /me, Scud, Fahad and MS.

Miles in car: 1200miles

Day 1: Santa Fe, NM

City, known for old architecture and buildings. One of the early cities of USA/Mexico, tells lot of history about US Vs Mexican war.. Spanish history too.

Drove and stayed near WhiteSands.

Day 2: White Sand National Monument

One hell of a place. Played Football, volleyball, throwball, 'sikkor chendu'., did sand sliding. etc. It was complete fun.

went through El Paso, TX. One of the Border town of US / Mexico. Felt like we are in majestic area of bengaluru. on the roads, instead of guys staring at gals, gals were staring at us :O

Drove and camped near Carlsbad, NM.

Day 3: Carlsbad Caverns National Park

Another natural wonder. The caves here are "BIIIIIGGGGG' and AWESOME. they have electricity here, so the cave looks good. cave is 750ft below the mountain top, and they have elevator. These limestone caves are really a wonder.

Also visited Guadalupe Mountains National Park on the way back.

Some Photos:

* Fahad's Album here
* more later..

Hampi

Been to Hampi last Saturday (16.07.2005). A great place. It was vast. I was very much thrilled by seeing the place, at the same time felt bad also as most of the things are destroyed. Actually one needs atleast two days to see it completely. We didn't knew this before, so planned only one day trip. But anyway covered all the places there (not satisfied yet, may go there again)

People: Me, Pramod, Narendra Jadi, Vidula