Thursday, August 20, 2009

Day 162 - Aug 17 - Hubli to Bijapur

Aug17 at EveryTrail

Map created by EveryTrail: GPS Trip Sharing with Google Maps

188 KMs Trip meter 23088 KMs

Leave my sister's place early so that my bike could be attended first at the service center. Say my brief travel story so that my bike would get some good treatment. The spares are available for my relief. Wait patiently for the work to be down and the bike is rolling out of the service center by 1 pm.

Head straight out of Hubli town and welcomed by super smooth two laned road. Naive of me to think its like this all the way to Bijapur... Looks like its going to rain and i am forced to wear rain gear. 15 mins and the rains gone and there is even some sunlight. These false rains alarms are very irritating. I have no patience to get out of the rain gear so i ride on. Stop for lunch at Nargund and some 20 kms around here is offroad. Gave me scares that it will be like that till Bijapur. But luckily the road got to its good state and i could ride at 110 and above. Back to the fun of overtaking all the vehicles on the road. Pretty uneventfull ride and i get to Bijapur by 6 pm and i settle in my Aunts place. Will be here for 2-3 days. This is like my another home and could relax for couple of days here before my run for the southern tip of India.

The bike being give a new chain sprocket set..


Quite a few place to see enroute but have lost the morning session on the bike work...


Great empty two lane road...


The village livestock...


not so green but hardly any trees


Have to get into rain gear now with rain threatning ahead...


The wet road...


A stone outcrop in the plain and its used to hoist a few windmills...


Typical Karnataka hotel's way of serving coffee...


Lot of these colorful oxes pass. Prolly there was some competation.


Farmers washing their farming equipments, rich farmers cleaning their metal ones and the not so rich ones their organic ones...


Some wet bridges to cross...


The half done road and was not sure of how long this would be...


more of it...


Some village residents...


The road gets back to the form...


Some sun flower farms on the way..


Raising waters..


The bridge was around 3 kms long!!


There are plains here too...


Some festive ceremonies going on...



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