Riding in Northern Kerala and Coorg – Days 2 and 3

Read about day 1 of the ride.

The morning in Vythiri was cold and misty and I couldn’t resist taking a walk around the home stay even before splashing water on my eyes. Since riding in the mist is even better I quickly got ready to leave and of course not without a cup of hot tea 🙂 The sun was just up as I made my way out of the town and down the Vythiri ghats. The view was quite nice and part of the valley was still under the shadows of the adjacent hills.

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I had been dreaming about riding along the Kerala coast and reaching Mangalore by the end of the day, and ride back home to Mysore the next day. But as it often happens, it was going to turn out differently and I would end up in Virajpet.

Riding in Northern Kerala and Coorg – Day 1

After my last ride to Chitradurga, I was a bit pumped up to ride more. And just in time a friend suggested I ride to Ooty during one of the long weekends. That is when I realized I actually had never ridden out of the state of Karnataka. I had been to Tamil Nadu as a tourist before and decided to visit our other neighbor, the state of Kerala! Since I had only three days I decided I would ride from Mysore, around northern Kerala and enter back through Coorg and back home. With that plan in mind I started from home, Mysore on my brother’s Hero Honda Glamour. I rode hard for the first 30-40 km, until I reached Manandawady road and the road going beside the Kabini reservoir. Here I hit a snag, my rear tyre was flat, thanks to the bad condition of the Bogadhi-Gaddige road and my curiosity to try it. I had to come back to H.D. Kote, the town near the Kabini handpost and replace both the tyre as well as the tube. I rode out from there as soon as possible as I wanted to ride in the Nagarhole National Park before it could hot.