17 to Lanka

The Aug 15th weekend was fast approaching and plans were flying back and forth. One of em made loads of sense to me - DHANUSHKODI. This gave me an oppurtunity to ride to my native and also have a whale of a time with the boys :-)


Sim calls up a week before the ride and yells " Dei lawdekaballs, you better come and stay at Trichy on 14th else ill casterate you and throw the cut part to my daags". I was unsure about the ride tille about 2 days before it happened. Middle of all this, Katz come up with a plan to go to Kodai from trichy and then ride to dhanushkodi - YUMMY that sounded awesome. Well fackin that never happened cause that lawda fellow backed out at the last moment so KODAI was outta the door.

14th Mornin - Came into oppice at 7.30 and started work. I wanted to start riding at 4.30 along with the gang. Called up my boss and got permission to leave at 3.30 to go home and back. I was at the BP bunk on GST to see wonlee Gunfight and Bra. I was like " Dei wonlee us three aa ". Started riding and stopped at Chengalpet to regroup with Rohit and then the steady speeds began. Breaked for like 10 mins at Vikravandi and then few kms down the road met up with Bob, Swaps, Laxmi and Mellu. By that time the word "Sembaruthi" (Hibiscus) had got a new meaning. My ass was all dented and all :P~. The stretch btwn Trichy and Thindivanam has the most fackall roads ever and everytime we speed up we manage to hit a diversion board. Finally entered Trichy at about 11ish with me and Ravi leading the pack. My scare of doing a night ride faded and actually was a confidence booster. Went over to Sim's place to find the usual suspects already passing out. Had a little conversation with one Mr Chivas Regal and managed to pass out around 2.

15th morning - Woke up to Gunfight's " Thevidiyas and Mayirus " and got ready to head out to my Chitapa's place. Went and ate like a pig at his place and then after a hearty luncg at A1, the gang started off towards Dhanuskodi. Roads were ok. Managed to take a wrong route at pudukotai and good that we realised it fast :P~. Regrouped at Devakotai Road for a chai break and headed off to my Village for another break. The Villagers were stunned to see so many fancy dressed riding dudes. Ravi became a celebrity here with villagers wanting to take pics with him. Mellu then dropped a bomb saying that his reat tyre is punctured and DANG, one more hour went by. After some swift riding later, the gang reached Rameshwaram and settled down at Island Star. Me and Sim got ready in record time and started to check out the alcohol and food scene. Bra joined me in putting a beer at the local Tasmac and we walked right across to this joint called "Hotel Prakash". This places serves some unbelievably good and yummy and soft parottas. Killed the food completely and came back to the room for another session. This was more of a fancy engliss speaking session with words like achrimonious and ambiguous and wat not coming out :P~. Our man Naai Roast then says that we need to wake up at 4.30 the next morning. WHAT LAWDA I SAY.

16th Morning - Woke up at 4.30 to DD's call and got ready. It was time to ride close to Lanka. Jumped pillion with Trooper and proceeded to Dhanuskodi via really dark roads. Couple of yumm Tea's later the Van ride to the tip started and MAN OH MAN what a rush. There was Sea everywhere. A place where you could see the Bay of Bengal and The Indian Ocean at the same place. This place is about 17 kms from Sri Lanka. Met a local who was one of the survivors of the 1964 cyclone and he turned guide taking us through what happened. Rode back to Rameshwaram for some breakfast and a power nap. Woke up at 11 to find out everyone is packing to leave. SHAPAAAAAAA RIDING AGAIN AAA. Packed in a jiffy and fueled up. Plan was to go as far as possible on the route to chennai and stop for the night. We decided to take the ECR and travel all along the east coast till chennai. This was a good 550 kms. Roads were bad.. wait there was no fackin roads at all. Me, Bra and trooper decided to ride motocross and whacked the throttle open and bajaaod the bike on bad roads. Halted at karaikal at around 5.30 pm for lunch and after that all roads led to Pondy wonlee. Condom and Gunfight were advance party at Pondy and were looking for rooms. I entered pondy and joined Gunfight in the hunt. Dom left for chennai as he didnt want to break the ride flow. Bobby and Swaps finally managed to get us accos for the night - PHEW... I was thinking that we would be riding to chennai the same night. We feasted on the food and the alcohol went in. Gunfight managed to tell us stories of how he Tuts the Shrottle BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. After that SNOREEEEEEEEEEE wonlee.

17th Morning - Woke up at 7, Rode Back to Chennai, Reached at 9.20. Ate.. SLEPT, Woke up, Ate and Slept again :-)


All in all a fab ride. Dhanuskodi is a must see :-)

Route up - Chennai - Vilupuram - Ulundurpet - Peramalur - Trichy - Pudukotai - Thirumayam - Karaikudi - Devakotai - RS Mangalam - Devipattinam - Ramanathapuram - Mandapam - Rameshwaram

Route Down - Rameshwaram - Ramanathapuram - Devipattinam - Thondi - Mimisal - Vailankanni - Nagapattinam - Karaikal - Sirkazhi - Chidambaram - Cudaloor - Pondicherry - Chennai

Stay @ Rameshwaram - Hotel Island Star
Stay @ Pondy - Le' Heritage Pondicherien

Total Kms - 1206

Bike - Pulsar 220 DTSFi | Avg Mileage - 42.6 kmpl

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