first of all, i must say im being quite lazy...this trip happened 9 days back & i still havent written about it...
so ba'shah khan calls me on a friday evening & asks if we should take a bike trip to pavagadh, and we had to find people..i suggested we go on saturday so we can rest on sunday, but he had some work.. so we went about looking for people & found two bakras.. the dude! & mr. CA.
everything was final on sat night, & i woke up at 3.30 on sunday to find that the dude is down due to a long football session. so that was the 3 of us..
ba'shah khan with his enfield machismo, me wid my discover & mr. CA on the backseat.. we started around 6.40 as mr. CA got late. As we touched the main highway ( we took Kheda Road as the Jashodhanagar road was flooded in monsoon), i felt the cold wind engulf me! soon we started testing our bikes & Ba'shah khan used to leave me biting the dust on his brand new babe! mine isnt so bad either & i could reach 95 easily... so there we were speeding towards pavagadh..
at nadiad we decided to have breakfast at a local joint, only to find that it started at 9 .. so we had some tea & khari & went on.. on a congestion free highway ba'shah khan was speeding at almost 100 sometimes, and i was trying hard to keep up.
at vasad, mr. CA took over the discover as i sat in the back to take fotos on ba'shah khan's rebel... i hadn't anticipated the new flyovers on baroda bypass, and we overshot the halol expressway by almost 7 kms...
we returned & took the expressway. when we stopped to fill petrol, i shifted behind the enfield.. this time it went to a 110 with mr. CA trying to push mine to a 100!! halol expressway rocks!!
after that wonderful zippy drive, we reached the turn towards pavagadh & saw the hill in all its glory. it was time for the photographer in ba'shah khan to awaken and he started clicking ...madly!! we did some modelling on the chrome of his enfield and then took off again.. i took the discover & mr. CA sat behind the enfield
the road was amazingly green, completely covered with ground cover & grasses.. and we could spot some waterfalls on the hill! As we came to the hill's climb, ba'shah khan started pushing the enfield again with me at his tail! it was quite a wonderful performance with my discover at the hells of the machismo till the top!
we had some absolutely distasteful grub at machi & took the ropeway to the top. While Mr. CA went for the darshan and ba'shah khan went about his photography, i enjoyed the absolute silence on near the Jain temples..
when mr. CA returned we did some modelling around the temples & ruins.
then it started pouring madly! ba'shah khan put the camera in & we started off towards the kothar on the cliff edge. we encountered a small dug tank on the way, & it was so misty that we couldn't see beyond 15 feet! we took quite a few fotos at that place only to be driven away by some chattering youngsters...
as we reached the kothar, we realized we couldnt see the cliff edge as visibility was hardly 10 feet! we went inside to dry ourselves, and suddenly ba'shah khan ran out with the camera.. the clouds were moving and the cliff edge was coming into view! it was a breathtaking sight! & we went about our modelling again!
wild rain drove us back in & i showed ba'shah khan the light from the window in front of which me & mr. CA started modelling...
we were inside for over 2 hours during which the rain refused to stop!
when it did intermittently, we used to go out & shoot around.. ba'shah khan took some jumping fotos which me & mr. CA started aping! the results were amazing!
suddenly we realized it was 3.30 pm & we gotta get back! so we rushed in the rain and reached the dug pond again. this time it was clear & ba'shah khan spent some time clicking away.. as we started leaving wind picked up, and it was so hard we were almost getting blown away!!! we stooped low and ran towards the Jain temples. as we reached them, it started pouring madly. somehow we reached the ropeway & i was thinking all the time it must be closed in heavy rains..
luckily it was open & we jumped in.. the way down was amazing! as we left, we couldnt see even 5 feet outside.. as the ropeway came lower we started seeing machi & the rain lessened. from machi we could see the rain battering the hill top, from where we had just returned!
back on our bikes after chai & bhajiya! we entered baroda and headed straight for nilkanth!!!
from there we went to the college and i was stunned at the variety of work & trash lying around!
we decided to dine at vasad, and being hungry since morning i had more than a day's fill of delicious kathiyawadi food, while feeling nostalgic about the old days when we used to go there...
we were so tired, we could hardly sit on our bikes, and yet when we did, we were racing each other again at 80+ speeds.. we reached abad non-stop & fell into bed, all the bones creaking & muscles crying out!!!! what a crazy day!
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