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Hotel Glanton
Manor
Charring Cross,
Coonoor Road,
Ooty - 643001.
Phone - (0423)
2441941,2447372 |
Hotel City
Palace
North Lake
Road, Near children park,
Ooty - 643001.
Phone - (0423)
2449410, 2451507 |
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Trip
Details
It is
really a long weekend, its called "Pongal" in Tamilnadu and "sankaranthi"
in Karnataka.
Whatever it is named, we have holidays for 3 days.
Visiting the home town is a common scene for outstation ppl like me,
but am not like that, I love travel , adventure and Driving!!!!!!!,
Ameen khan another room mate also form chennai, we r on similar
wavelengths, he too loves travel , adventure and driving, getting
people with similar thoughts seems a bit difficult.
The plan to make use of this holidays was charted out 2 weeks before
and my friend suggested Ooty!!!!!!!!
Ahhhh what a place to be in, at this point of the year, its not an
off-season nor a peak-season, its called a second season, no huge
rush nor any harsh rains.
Our plans started taking up shape as we neared the D-day.
 We a group of 9 guys started of in 5 bikes, mine is a black victor,
a CBZ, pulsar, yam135, and a black fiero started from bangalore on
14-Jan-2005, Friday.
My bike has completed its 6000 and its the first long trip above 250
kms at-a-stretch ride, and I was determined to get to know its full
potential in the winding 36 hairpin bends of ooty.
Our actual plan was to start at 5:00Am, myself and ameen khan were
on the dot, picked up rajesh (on his pulsar) from indranagar, went
to koramangala and picked up 2 more guys mayank and gaurav.
Headed to banshankari (opp to family mart) this is our proposed
meeting point to start the journey, Sudheep (CBZ) and abhijeet r
still in their house in cox town and Kris (yam135) still not to be
found.
Atlast we found the 3 guys turning in at 6:30Am.
Without wasting a second, we started of on the kanakapura road,
ameen and gaurav on ameens fiero, myself and kiran on my Victor.
We were heading for quite a distance and found the other 3 bikes
missing form the vision, so was waiting near a tree, we got a call
form kris and felt sorry to hear Kris bike going flat.
We found a puncture shop near the tree and informed them to get the
wheel, rajesh had removed the wheel by then and got it to the shop,
got the tube back into shape in half an hour,
It was a nail a really big nail that was in the tyre.
It was around 8:00Am we again started the trip form the kanakapura
road.
Reached kanakapura, had our breakfast there and headed straight to
mysore via mallavalli.
From mysore we headed straight to Ooty road via Masinagudi, bandipur
mudumalai.
Before entering Bandipur, we spotted a Resort (nilgiris resort), the
food was awesome, had a south indian style meals, rested for some 15
mins and started our journey again into the jungle roads.
The jungle stretch was the ultimate riding, we spotted a lot of
Deers and elephants on the way
The next awesome road was after the mudumalai jungles, the road was
a straight layer of bitumen, it seemed as if it was freshly done.
The major Fun part of the steep ascend in the nilgiri hills was
about to start, we encountered the first hairpin bend, the winding
ride sent a chill through the spine, we stopped at every hairpin
joint to capture the beauty of nature, also we cant count the number
of tea's that we had on the way, we haven't had so much in our life
time, wherever we find a tea shop, the engines would come to a halt,
it seemed as if the engines started doin this automatically.
 Reached ooty at 5:00pm, rode up to our hotel in charring cross
(Hotel Glanton Manor), we booked the rooms a week in advance, and we
had a warm welcome from the hotel with 1 big room for 6 people and a
another small room for 3 people.
We had a good sleep on Friday night, woke up at 7:00 next morning on
Saturday, visited parsons valley dam, pykara and other places.
The places were exciting and am falling short of words to describe
the scenic beauty.
We started or journey back to Bangalore on sunday and reached
Bangalore at 6:00Pm.
In totality the trip was an exciting one with 9 guys and 5 bikes
roaring the roads. |