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A bracing wind gushed into the narrow recess carved out of rocks, muddling the prayer flags, which had joined hands to cross the adjacent gorge. A cliff stood tall in front, cradling a monastery on its lap. A wave of chants cascaded from a distance soothing the mind into a trance. An artist’s...
The curves, neatly rock-fenced; the green mulberry trees aligned along the trails, veering away into the dense vegetation; the gradual decent into a valley through a sun-dappled thoroughfare; a huge saucer shaped black umbrella exposing only a pair of tanned legs, trudging to a nearby hamlet of...
PROLOGUE: A new city and a new set of responsibilities were beckoning me and I was desperately looking to reinstate my lost biking spirit, when a post for a motorcycle group ride in a leading biking community website caught my eyes. It was a tri state meet up, which meant I could meet some of...
“How often did I like the snaky curves on the way to a hill station? How many times did the depth of a gorge send a chill through my spines? How would I negotiate an incoming monster on four wheels determined to take me off road? “– I am thinking too much maybe, that’s […]
Knowing that today will be a complete rest day, I muted the snooze in my alarm permanently by switching the phone off! The bright sunlight filtered through the brown window panes of the scarcely populated Hotel Kuenga, our abode of luxury! Generally tourists prefer hotels on the other side of...
The pitter patter of the rain outside worked as the perfect alarm. It was not the morning we expected for our debut into the roads of North Bengal, but took it as it came. Off went the rain gears and the packing stuff from our baggage and gradually all was packed tight with bungee cords. […]
The hustle bustle at one of the busiest stations in India took us off in a flash. We had left Bhubaneswar the last night only to reach Howrah Junction (Kolkata’s main station) by 5 am and zip through to Sealdah (Another important station of Kolkata) for the train to Siliguri. After my blurry...
Prologue: It was a sunny Monday afternoon and the chat table at CCD was getting heated up without any hot ingredient from the vendor. Bullz were zeroing in on their ticket bookings for an upcoming long ride to the mountains. The words like “Sikkim”, “Nathula Pass” were floating all over the...
1600 kms in 10 days of cliff hugging rides cutting across the Royal Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan from west to east. I rode to Bhutan on a motorcycle from India and came back completely mesmerized by the country. An enchanting land it was tucked away in the folds of the Eastern Himalayas....