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.

Humcha, Hosanagara trip with School friends - 2014 Jan 18th and 19th.

Distance : 789km
Time : ~33hrs (2pm on 18th left BLR, came back by 11pm on 19th)
Vehicle: Innova (I drove the full stretch)
People : 7-8 (one got added for return trip)



It was overall fun as the trip was mostly about talking 20 year old stories of school days.

Stayed at Prakash's home @ Humcha. Attended Punith's wedding @ Kargadi (karanagiri). Visited temples of Humcha, and Backwater @ Kargadi. Took a motorboat ride. Overall a fun trip.

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!

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

weekend - 20090912

Saturday played a outdoor volleyball tournament in SantaClara. Helped Prasad with shifting his house. Watched US Open. Evening swam a little.
Sunday morning went on a drive to Santa Cruz (with Kiran, Scud, MS), saw beach volleyball tourney. Had coffee, came back. Saw US Open. Went to Santa Clara for a hindustani Classical music concert by Vyshali KS, who is natively from Sagar. Overall a good weekend.

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