Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Day 161 - Aug 16 - Palolem to Hubli

Aug16 at EveryTrail

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227KMs Trip Meter 22899 Kms

Kinda tempted to stay one more day. But decided to move on. But cant ride all the way to Bijapur as i have to get the Chain sprocket and Battery. So i am going to stay at Hubli for the day. Since its a sunday have to to get them only the next day. This delays Keerthi's schedule by more than an hour as he had to be at office by sun down. Ride out of the Resort and towards Karwar. As we wanted to avoid the Ponda hubli strech which is supposed to be bad. Thus a road through anshi national park is decided. Stop at the deviation towards anshi for breakfast. Have to make a few calls. My fone's not connecting and std booth not going through as well. This causes more delay. Just as we start riding we have to stop again to get into the rain gear. We pass kadra village and its was nice riding throught the ghats with good tarmac. Soon its gives way to pathetic potholed roads. After braving it for few kms, asked a villager for Yellapur in the next town. Well we are suppoed to go back to kadra for a short cut. Have to ride the bad roads back again and get to the other side of the mountains.

We get to kadra n surely get directed towards the small short cut road going through the KAIGA project area. We kinda get questioned at the checkpost and after the entry we are let in. This turned out to be good as it was very narrow road through the forest and mostly under canopy. There was a dropoff on once side of the narrow road. Get to the open and on to the highway towards Hubli. Kinda lost our bearings and wondered we could have taken the main road from karwar to yellapur! Any way now that we are here can only ride ahead. Its smooth fast paced ride till hubli on the awesome road with less traffic. This is tipical of karnataka state which has less traffic. We split up at hubli and where Keerthi dashes to Bangalore and i stay at my Sister's place in Hubli for the day.

our room at the Palolem beach resort..


The premises..


The restaurant right ont he beach's ede...


Keerthi and the bikes...


Riding away towards karwar..


Keerthi giving his bike the fill...


The Red and the Black...


And i officially enter karnataka after 5+ months! It was a awesome moment...


Back to Idlis


A water fall in Anshi national park...


Keerthi clicking the water falls..


The fantastic roads in Anshi national park...





Get into the narrow foresty road going towards KAIGA.








Get onto the Yellapur Hubli road..


Have to stop for rain gear...


Was a false alarm and the it gets sunny again and smooth roads to crusise on..


A bullock cart by the raod...


Enter Hubli


My cousine's naughty kid clicking himself..

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