First monsoon ride of season 2011

Well on Saturday, I started planning for Sunday ride. As I wanted to take out my bullet for ride after 2 months. My machine got new look and style. I was excited to take her for long ride. So I explored Google map and I found huge reservoir near Wadgao dam i.e. Makardhokda.

I always eager to visit new places. I sms club members about this place and other details of ride. Anu, Mukund, Neeraj sent confirmation for this ride.

On Sunday, around 3pm, the atmosphere was cool as showers shown presence for some time. Though it was not raining heavily. I called up Anu, unfortunately he was facing some issues with his bike so he could not joined us in ride. I took out my bullet and directly visited Neeraj's house.

Me and Neeraj started our ride at around 4pm. After Khapri naka, it was raining heavily. We enjoyed first monsoon shower during this ride. From Butibori, we forgot to take first left turn and choose different turn where road was pathetic. We reached to railway crossing (as shown in the map). We asked local people for confirmation of route.

~~ Suggested route to avoid bad road .. (State highway 262 as shown in map is very poor)


The road condition was average. I noticed that headlight of bullet was touching number plate when bike bumps from speed breaker or small gandha.

Pata hi nahi chal raha tha ki road main ghadhe hai ki ghadho main road :|

But at one point, it bumps so high, nameplate banged on headlight and damaged it. It was predicted but still I didn’t do anything. :(

Same time, Neeraj was few meters away from me, he was also waiting for me as his bike was not starting. The fuse was short. Oops, now what ? he took out wire from broken headlight of my bike and bypass the fuse. :p

We were just 4 kms away from destination. So we decided to continue our ride. We reached our destination i.e. Makardhokda Dam. Wow.. what a view, super duper. It was indeed a huge reservoir. We parked our bike near dam and relaxed for couple of minutes. Neeraj did some mud biking. :p

We have to rush to home as my bike’s headlight was broken so before dark we have to reach city. Without wasting time, we returned back. We had snacks and Tea at Kamat restaurant, Butibori.

By 7.30pm, we were at home. It was wonderful first monsoon ride of this year and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Cheers

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.

Drive to Konkan

Konkan – Beautiful beach, coconut trees, sea food. Wow !! What else you need to plan holidays. My family and Nitin’s family were very excited when we planned about this trip. Me, Gaurai & Padmaksh were planning to visit Pune for attending marriage ceremonies of my cousins. In the meantime, we were planning for expedition on weekend at Konkan.
We reached Pune on Saturday morning. Sachin (my friend & company mate) received us from Pune railway station. We reached to Sachin’s place, taken quick bath and reached Nitin’s house which is in same premises but in different wing. I was little surprised to see developed pune after so many years.
After hi-hello, we quickly grab required stuff for Konkan trip. Nitin, Goldi & Ishwin were also ready to have fun at Konkan. Required cloths, toys for kids, food items, Road Map, cameras and many stuff, we were putting it in car. Finally we started at 1pm from Pune.

Weather was little hot but due to excitement it was totally ignored. From Chandni Chauk, we proceed to pirangut & then Paud village. After putting in some fuel in car, very quickly we reached to Morshi Dam. The place was beautiful. We have taken few snaps and proceed to our next destination.

A beautifu view of Morshi Dam

We were planning to visit Srivardhan & Harihareshwar, but we could not manage to go to these places because of less time. So we decided to directly reach to Diveagar, which is supposed to be the most beautiful place in Konkan with huge and beautiful beach.

I have taken car directly to beach. Wow, first sight of ocean was so refreshing that we all forgot exhaustive journey. We quickly explored the homely cottage where we can stay for night. Luckily it was very near to beach. We changed our outfits and came in half pants and barmudas.:)

On beach, we were enjoying every moment. Had coconut water, Drawing designs on sand, creating forts with sand, playing with kids and many more things.

This moment was little special because this was the first meet of Padmaksh with Ocean. I prayed to lord to keep Padmaksh safe & healthy. He was enjoying every wave of sea. The feeling of sand coming under his feet. The salty taste of water. Few times he was little scared when big wave hit hardly to him. :p But off course me & Gaurai were with him always. Ishwin, my friends daughter, she was also enjoying every wave. Nitin & Goldy were protecting her from big waves. I have taken non-stop snaps since I may not get such moments again.


Now we were tired and hungry. So we proceed to our cottage and ordered special Konkani food. Nitin ordered special Fish curry for him. After dinner and gossips, we had a good sleep which was very important for our next day journey and program.
Special Konkani Veg Food
As per plan, we woke up early morning and again landed on beach. Morning atmosphere at sea beach was equally refreshing. I had a long jog on sea shore which was quite energising. We travelled with Horse Baggi on shore which was very exciting. Diveagar has a very huge beach, around 8-10kms.


At 9am, we started from Diveagar. We proceed to Dighi, from where we planned to take a boat for Murud Janjira, A fort created by Shivaji Maharaj. We reached Dighi in a hour. Everyone was hungry so we had breakfast at Dighi. But unfortunately, we missed boat for fort and next scheduled time was after one hour. So we decided to drop the plan for Fort view and proceed to next destination.
Next destination was Pali, one of the Ashtavinayak. So via Mangaon we reached to Pali. Weather was too hot and kids were disturbed with that heat. Road condition was not good but we managed to reach Pali.

After worship of Lord Ganesha, we decided to change our route and proceed to Khopoli. After Khopoli, we touched to Mumbai-Pune Express Highway. On highway food plaza, we had heavy snacks. We want to reach pune before evening, so we started immediately from Khopoli.

I was very excited to drive car on such highway, because I might be bored with tiny bad roads. With high speed, we managed to reach Pune before sunset.
Amazing journey, fabulous sites and a very good company of friends made this trip successful. :-)

Wanderlust Ride @ Waki Woods

Waki woods.. a well-known place near Nagpur for hangout. If you want to see white sand beach near Nagpur city, this is the best place. Yes, I am not joking. Wanderlust, my bullet club, decided to have a ride at this place.
How to reach Waki woods? Very simple!! Every nagpurian know koradi.. that’s it .. You can follow Koradi road. As displayed in map, you can bypass the Koradi and need to reach Patansavangi. Then you need to take right turn. If you got confused then you can take help from local people to locate this place.

~ Anu Paji (Our leader) and Inder (Co-moderator of club) ready for ride.

We reached on destination without any problem. Though railway crossing took little bit of time. As usual, I was very excited. We follow small raw roads instead of tar roads. Off-roading.. you know. We were enjoying twisty & bumpy ride. From the bushes, trees, we were finding the way to reach the decided location i.e. beach.

Before reaching on destination, my bullet made a weird sound and stopped. I looked down at rear tyre to check what exactly happened. Ohh no.. Chain of my bullet slipped. :( Inder & Anup tried to fix the problem but no success. We left the bullet there and proceed. When we reached on the destination, Inder, Anup & Sandeep did burnout. I was really cool.

We relaxed on the beach. Guys had sip of bear. :p I was hungry, so I had light snacks. Neeraj was as usual busy in taking snaps. Anu paji also accompanied him. I also captured few moments. We enjoyed and played in river water.

~ Wanderlust everywhere ..

~ As evening @ Waki woods !!


In evening, we again tried to fix the problem of my bike but we couldn’t. So I left the bike at my friend’s farm house and came back to Nagpur.

Wanderlust Ride @ Bor Dam

Destination - Bison sanctuary

One more weekend ride accomplished with high enthusiasm and spirit. ;-) This time the destination was “Bison”, a wildlife sanctuary, 101 km from Nagpur. The area is also known as Rukhad in Seoni district, Madhya Pradesh. Rukhad is a wildlife sanctuary adjacent to the Pench National Park. The forests around Rukhad have now been converted into a Bison sanctuary.

I was visiting this place second time. Thus old memories were refreshing when I came to different milestones in the journey. Road condition from Nagpur city to Mansar (near Ramtek) was very poor. But after Mansar, the road was good and ideal for ride. The area of Pench national park was really cool and pleasant.

After Mansar, we took small break in Deolapar. A well-known village for Gau Vidhyan Anusandhan Kendra (Cow Science Research Centre) runs by VHP (Vishva Hindu Parishad). This Kendra has been manufacturing products from cow dung and urine, has bagged patent from USA and China for its cow urine distillate.

~ My friends (Piyush & Harshal), My ridemats :)

We moved ahead and reached Kurai, a small village before Rukhad. After Kurai, the road was quite twisty. We reached to our destination i.e. Bison Highway Treat resort. This resort runs by Madhya Pradesh State Tourism Development Corporation to serve as a mid-way refreshment halt for tourists. The resort was well maintained with nice ambience.

- Bison Highway Treat Resort, Bison sanctuary

We had heavy lunch at this resort as food was delicious and we were very hungry. :-)

~ Some fun @ Resort

Near to this resort you can find some government guest houses which are also available for stay provided you have booked it in advance. :p You can go to Safari in Bison sanctuary. Since we didn’t have that much time for the Safari, we came back to Nagpur with same way.