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

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. 

Trip to Lodikheda with RSS Family

Rain & Long Drive

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

This time I dared for adventure in different way. Though it was inconvenient and unconventional way but necessity made it happen. Visiting new places, fast driving of car, riding bike for long distances, etc these are some of the ways of my adventure. But this time I made a history of driving car in rains for 9 hours continuously. The wiper was not stopped until we reached destination. There were many wonderful & thrilling moments I experienced in this journey.

Me & my wife planned the journey to Jalna on weekend but we don’t know that the journey would be so adventurous. On Friday night, rains showed up their presence. Mom & Dad were bit tensed with our plan. I assured them that I may drop the plan if it is raining heavily in the morning. Early morning we realized that the intensity of rain was slowing down, so we started our journey at 6.45 AM.



Wow.. light showers, lush green surrounding, drizzly roads, what else you require in journey? When we started, wiper was on first level. The speed of showers varied with the areas. It had gone to third level at one time when we were in Karanja.



Only thing frightening me was that of flooded rivers. What will happen if it flooded over the bridge? Or something which causes delay in our journey. And it happened !! Just before Mehkar, due to storm a huge tree fell down on the road and the traffic was blocked. We spent 45 minutes in traffic jam. :(



Finally we reached our destination safely. This was the most memorable trip we ever had. :-)