Pre-Monsoon Club ride to Silai Mendha

After long time, I received SMS from Anu for club ride. Since I was almost cured from unfortunate car accident, I sent my “YES” (approval of presence) for ride at Degma (a place near to Zilpi). But unfortunately I didn’t have my bullet. It was with Shanu for rebranding/renovation. So I decided to come as pillion in this ride. The summer heat was still ON. On Sunday, Anu informed about the meeting point and timings. We decided to start late evening to avoid heat.

We (Anu, Inder, Harsh, Uzair and Me) started at approximately 5.30pm. I was pillion on Anu’s bike. After refueling at hingna naka, we gathered at Hingna Bus stop. We were discussing about refreshments and other stuff.

A guy approached us, as people always do when they see club riders with stylish bikes and riding attires. He asked us to join his team and visit Silai Mendha spot. He was carrying around 12-15 snakes. Yeah, he was SarpaMitra (Snake-Friend), his name was Monu Singh. We had a quick chat and decided to join him as he was going to show us new place called Silai Mendha.

We touched zilpi route and took immediate left turn at the starting of same route (As shown in the map). The road condition was average but it was thrilling as well as exciting to visit new destination.

We followed Monu singh team and reached at destination. We were amazed to see reservoir, in Nagpur summer also, the water level was enough. But surrounding was dry and dusty.

After enjoying off-roading , the real fun and thriller started. Sarpamitra taken out different snakes from sack and boxes. They were handling those snakes so easily. Harsh said “ye to isko keychain jaise pakadke huwe hai” :p

Inder, first dared to handle non-poisonous snake. Then I also dared to take rat snake in my hand. The feel was so amazing and different. Initially I was scared but then was enjoying the feel and movements of snake.

Harsh and Uzair were very scared, they didn’t dare to take snake in their hands. :D Finally, guys taken out KING COBRA from box. Dangerous, Khararnak, Phadu !! we could here Hissssssss sound when Cobra was freed.

~ Sarp Mitra - Monu Singh & his team

Wanderlust everywhere .. Anu & Harsh bikes

After taking loads of photos/videos and discussions with Snake friends, we started for return journey. It was lightning heavily. Anu taken wonderful snaps of lightning.

We came back to Hingna, had sip of tea, shared moments of ride. Everyone was very happy to have wonderful and different ride unexpectedly.

Family outing @ new spot

I think I am good in managing outing on every weekend now and enjoying every moment of current rainy season. :p Really, this may be the frustration of Nagpury summer we faced in last couple of months.
This Sunday rains already showed their presence from the morning. The atmosphere was ideal for outing. So in the evening everyone in my family agreed to go for outing. My friend Harshal suggested me one place where I never visited before, since I have been to the nearest place many times.

The spot was just 2 kms away from Zilpi Lake. (*To reach Zilpi lake you can refer my previous posts from this blog)

This spot do not have any specific name and even it was not known to many people. We all were excited to see this unknown spot.

After few confirmation from local people, we could able to reach this spot but you can refer map mentioned in this blog. We found a road without tar at the left side of the road as shown in map.

The real fun starts when we entered through this road to reach this spot. Surrounded by dense forest, lush green carpet of grass and small waterfall was the main attraction of this spot.

Wow ! we truly enjoyed different flavours of nature on this spot. My real happiness was in exploring new beautiful place. I had a great time with family & nature.

So do visit this place and enjoy the beauty of nature. Cheers !!

First long ride on Royal Enfield

After purchasing new royal enfield, today on Saturday, I got first chance to ride bullet. I called my beloved friend Ashay to accompany me. I have selected the nearest place from Nagpur, Zilpi lake. I have been to Zilpi lake many times but this time is something special as I was having new Bike, my own bike. We enjoyed lush green environment & beauty of nature.

An Eco-friendly Cycle Expidition

“What, a trip on cycle?”, “Are you crazy?”, “You must have missed the word “Motor” with Cycle.” These were the kinds of replies received by my friend (Sheel) when he posted this mail to some of his friends about cycle trip to a place near Nagpur. But the good thing was, a few of them replied positively.
The rally was one of the occasions to bring IT professionals together to improve the Eco friendly habits and awareness and promote health consciousness, not to forget the fuel conservation. So we had decided to attempt this thrilling & challenging journey on Cycle. The biggest challenge for us to ride a cycle for more than 5Kms. We were recalling our days at schoolyards.
So after lengths of chain mails & a bunch of chats we finalized our venue and date. “Zilpi lake”, a spot 25Kms from our office on Hingna road. Again, a few of us were not too confident on their stamina for a 50Km trip on cycle. But it was not very difficult to encourage them, as “Hum sath the na yaar..”. The reason why we selected Zilpi lake was because we could avoid Highway traffic and pollution.
As I was excited for this trip, I collected information about place and route. Google map helped us locate the exact route to Zilpi lake.



Listing out required accessories, food, etc was one of the major parts of this trip. Some important things which we carried with us were Glucose, Biscuits, Bananas, Food (for Lunch), Water bottles, Air pump, old newspaper, etc. Not everyone had cycles so we managed to get them for all. It was my job to manage these few things which I did promptly.

Finally the day arrived , we decided to gather at office at 7.15am morning and start the journey at 7.30am. But as usual, according to Indian Standard Time, we started our journey at 7.45am. YCCE was our first milestone, we covered that distance very quickly due to lot of energy, excitement. ;-)

You can understand, what will happen if the cycle is not properly maintained. Checking air pressure, oiling, tightening of nut-bolds was done near first milestone i.e. near YCCE college.



Very quickly we achieved our 2nd milestone i.e. Hingna bus stop. This is around 15kms from office, so everyone needed rest. With hot cups of tea, we had biscuits which we carried with us. We were enjoying photo shoots at the same point.

“Ohh noooo .. “, everyone was puzzled that what had happened to Pratik (a friend of ours), then he pointed his figure towards his cycle tyre. It was punctured!! But luckily we found a shop where we could get the puncture repaired. We faced common problems with cycle i.e. slipping of chains for a few times.

And now the real exciting road started. It was a short road with greenery on both sides. Typical villages, people with sheeps, cows and buffalos came across. We truly enjoyed the pollution free atmosphere.


Finally we reached to our destination i.e. Zilpi lake. We were tired but got refreshed very quickly when we saw lake surrounded with mountains. Everyone was exhausted and obviously hungry. We took out cold drinks and chips from our bag and started refueling ourselves. Some guys were relaxing, but few guys were enjoying nature, throwing pebbles in lake, playing in water, collecting shells, etc.

It was 1.30pm, we had a heavy lunch. A special Maharashtrian dish with Junka, Gola rice, Allo dum and chappatis. Actually we should not have heavy lunch as we have to travel 25 kms back on our cycles. But we could not resist ourselves with delicious food.
After relaxing for some time, we proceeded towards our return journey. We thought it would be difficult for us but due to less air resistance and slopes, we were able to reach our first milestone i.e. Hingna Bus stop with less effort. With a sip of tea we shared our good and bad experience of this trip.


Now everyone was tired as we had covered almost 35 kms. Reaching office as early as possible was the only thing on our mind.. We reached office by 5pm.
This way we 17 IIPians completed this trip enthusiastically.