Bike Ride to Yelagiri

One thing is for sure, the IT crowd are sleazed up for a weekend getaway. Be it a bike ride or a cab ride, they are game for it. What is has lead to is a spring leap in the prices in the hill stations and sprouts of new resorts all over. I am documenting my bike ride trip to elagiri.

Elagiri, has clean air for starters. It has two lakes. One with a park annex and the other with a boating annex. There are numerous resorts here, but I guess many operate at capacity during the weekends with reservations in place. It is better to make a reservation since value added services may be much needed in a place like elagiri which has little to offer.

We(Sathish, Venkat and Me) started from Chennai early (around 5) in our bikes( not to forget , had a cigarette near Chennai Trade Centre. My friend Venkat was like a Robber wore black mask full in his face). We were able to make it to Vellore easily by 9:30. Not to forget the cigarettes,boarding and Photo shoots;).Not to forget the quality of the roads throught, worldclass. I was wondering how many people were roped in to compelete such a humongous task. We took a torn narrow road to the foothills of Elagiri. Our Bikes was crusing and required some skilful thrust to take our heavy ass over the hills.

Once there, we skipped one hotel to another and finally ended up with no place to take us in. Lunch time and everyone was too tired to complain about anything. We finally ended up in a starter hotel which didn't host a restaurant. We were glad that atleast we were able to find some place, TV with regional content and western toilets = no complaints. In fact it was a bit cozy enough. We were starving and went to a nearby restaurant called Nigeeris. The turnaround time was more than 45 minutes. The loud voices grew dull, and the laughs sunk into snickers. The quality of the food was OK though and an unexpected change in climate. Pleasant surprise . We had a quick rounds of photos and headed to the nearby lake(Yes, as u all know me and sathish had Fags and Venkat was busy all the time with his Girl Friend in phone).

We thought of heading into the lake and suddenly it got reminded us that we bought Liquors. Heavy enough for us to experiment and try the other lake in the other corner of the village. We went in and checked that it is not really a lake but a tank collecting water from the draining rain water. We headed back to the bigger lake near the restaurant and barged in. The lake is and by far the only place to visit in Elagiri, so spotted many tourists. The boating is comparable to that of Kodaikanal or of wayanad. Heard the lake is more than 40 feet deep or so. And Again lots of photo shoot and time for SARAKKU. We spent more than three hours in room. Spirits were high and snacks were flowing. No big debates and no dirty hussle - everybody settled .The night dragged and we ordered food from YELAGIRI to close in the meal chapter for the day. We then roamed in the streets and then in the terrace - tried to put up conversations which didn't really start. To the rooms again and we ended up in our bed gazing at our television screen for the remaining part of the day.


There you go and thats it regarding the tour plan. Now heading back home. As decided we stopped at Vellore - Aarthi hotel. Treating customers was really bad there and had our Breakfast (No TIPS). Not to forget we rode bike like a superstar. I have to close this with a wry smile on how I got back home. On the highway we came to the city's entry point in 3 1/2 hrs and headed to the home made us another one hour - with that sort of fatigue it was just the few good moments that I had, carried me home with Joy.

Riding a Bike is an art and we three had very good time there..! (Forgot to mention, we went there in Pulsar, Apache RTR 180 and Yamaha FZ)

Cheers,

Sudhan