Monsoon ride to Pauni & Goshekhurd

To beat Nagpur heat, we, all club members decided to have first Monsoon ride of year 2012 at Pauni, in Bhandara District. As usual, I was very excited as I would be visiting this place for the first time. Another point of excitement was, debut of my new cell phone “Galaxy Note”. I was keen to take lot of photos in this ride with this cell with 8MP camera.

Pauni is 85kms from Nagpur. You need to take left turn after Bhivapur through Umred road. You can see a huge board of GOSHEKHURD Dam which is 20kms from that point.

We reached Pauni very easily as the road condition was good and atmosphere was very pleasant.

I have already seen the history of Pauni on the internet. This place is famous for huge FORT. When we entered in this town, we saw a huge fort wall. We were very excited to see entire fort. But it was bit disappointing, when we realize that there is NO fort as such. Only huge wall is present in current scenario. I took lot of snaps through my new cell camera. (As you can see in this post).

Entrance of Pauni Fort

Pauni Town from Fort Wall

Fort Wall

Goshekhurd Dam

Since the atmosphere was pleasant. NO rains till now. So we decided to visit GosheKhurd Dam. Which is one of the largest dam in Asia. But before that I asked my friends to Visit Ganesh temple in Pauni. The temple is famous as Vidarbha Ashtavinayak.

We reached GosheKhurd dam. It was a splendid view. Huge infrastructure and water reservoir. Wow.. amazing .. we relaxed at bank of the river and took some photos.

Huge wall of Goshe Khurd Dam

Goshekhurd 

Goshe Khurd Dam

In return journey, we had our lunch at 4pm near Pauni. Pure SAUJI bhojnalay with flavor of Umred Sauji. :p


About 5 kms from Pauni, we found small lake where we take a small pause and then proceeded to Nagpur.

We rode back to Nagpur in rain i.e. entire 85kms in rains. And that was the intension which was fulfilled in return journey. :)

Wanderlust Club @ Goshekhurd

Panoramic view of Goshekhurd Dam

Sunday Breakfast Ride

It was a beautiful Sunday morning and no reason why I woke up early morning. I think it was 5am, weather was pleasant enough to think about a quick ride. So I asked my better half to join me in this ride. And she agreed !!

So I choose Outer ring road, a road tangent to Wardha road as shown in the map. This is mew developed road and people hardly knows about this road.

  


It was very peaceful and pleasing in the morning on the open free road. We took lot of snaps as it was a new road and new “bus stops”. A feast for photography.

We saw IDEAS college on the way where my sister Vaidehi is currently working.

The ride concluded with heavy breakfast in Gokul Vrindavan, Dharampeth. 

My machine @ new Outer Ring Road

Summer Special - Club ride to Khekra Nala

After Gaddha mania at Lonar crater lake, we could not make it for any club ride. One more major reason was Nagpur Summer. Average temperature was 44-46 degree.

But still all club members decided for atleast one ride in hot weather just like “Rann of Kutch”. J

We gathers at Poonam chambers at around 10am. But we started at around 11.30 as Naga wanted to join us. He came from Hyderabad to customized his bike. Wow, he modified his machine nicely. Off course, Girish from our club helped him for this.

As shown in the map, we 7 bikers rode to Khekranala, a famous dam and huge water reservoir.

Since it was so hot, whenever we took a pause, we drank lot of water. I think per head we consumed 5-6 liters of water within this ride. :p

We reached at khekranala resort which is just located next to dam. Since we had very light breakfast in morning, we had heavy snacks at this resort. 

Everyone took out their cameras and started taking snaps. Birds, landscapes, trees, dam, so many subjects for the photography. :p After having snacks, we proceeded towards dam where we relaxed ourselves.

I folded my pants and got into the water, (not in depth which is not at all recommended).

Footprints of Wanderlust - Khekranala

Piyush wagh, one of the new club member, joined us. Wohoo, when he took out his camera, we were stunned. It was Nikon D4, very powerful and expensive.

We were very tiered, due to excessive water consumption, we were not hungry. He had some soft drinks and then we started out return journey.

ThunderGods @ Khekranala

We return way, we were pleased with the scenery. Dry leaves, rocky roads, trees with some green leaves, much more..

I was not lucky though, and we had seen our first breakdown. My bike’s rear tire was punctured. Ohh No !!

I need to go till khapa with Indrajeet to bring new tyre tube. Due to which we are delayed little bit. We rode back to Nagpur in late evening. 

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