Horsley Hills Ride
Its just another awesome ride to Horsley Hills. We were decided to take a break away from this hectic office works.
I started at 6:15 on Friday morning from Spic building Chennai (Guindy road) to ride some 280kms with Devinder,Sathish and Sharan to spend weekend at Horsley Hills.
We stopped for breakfast at A1 Plaza near Sriperumbudur tollgate, better than most I have seen on this highway. The ride with far more discipline, we rode in a staggered formation, maintaining constant pace for long stretches.
To reach Horsley Hills from Chennai, one needs to take a right off just after Palamner (196kms) and head to Madanpalli (+53kms) to Horsley Hills (+30kms). The hill itself comes from like nowhere and a short ride with 3-4 hairpin bends take you to the top.
We were a group of Pulsar 220, Pulsar 150 and Apache RTR 180.Myself and Devinder started and went ahead of Sathi/Saran. They had to pit stop a no. of times. By the time, Me and Devinder waited at Madanapalle more than 40 Mins.(But Devinder was saying "Where are these guys man..?We are waiting always for them "). After traveling some 280kms,We were to stay at Harita Resorts on Horsley Hills.
I loved the place . Harita is the only resort on top of hill around the region. It’s not much of a hill station, but the resort makes up for the lack. There is a decent pool, play grounds, good party area and well stocked bar. There are enough cottages to accommodate last minute travel plans. There is nothing much to do there, but if that is your idea of a holiday, its just 280 kms from Chennai!
About Horsley Hills:
A small hill station in Andhra Pradesh. If you search on the web you would get this. But when you ride there are no sign boards except when you reach the bottom of the hill before ride up a board "Welcome to Horsley Hills". That there are no sign boards put up shows where we lack in tourism promotion.
The roads in the route is not great by any change. There are pot-holes everywhere and you need to be careful. This is where group riding helps. The guy in the front always points to where the pot-holes are that the guys behind can avoid it.
Forget the pot-holes, long route, the ride was just great with a perfect weather.
It was cloudy slight sunshine at times but never a drop of rain. We had lot of pit stops, for breakfast, for pillion rider (its none other than Saran, who always want to stop the bike for Smoke or Tea) to cool their legs and general breaks. There was also not much traffic on the roads, not that it was Friday but the time we were riding in the morning, most trucks would be stopping for their quota of breakfast.
We never sped too much or went slow to spoil the mood. On most occasions, we were doing at around 80km/hr the perfect speed for a group ride. I would say that its a nice place to visit for a weekend, though there are not much one can go around for sight-seeing(except for us, NIFT fashion technology girls was there ). And definitely, you would notice the weather change to cool in the evening.
I started at 6:15 on Friday morning from Spic building Chennai (Guindy road) to ride some 280kms with Devinder,Sathish and Sharan to spend weekend at Horsley Hills.
We stopped for breakfast at A1 Plaza near Sriperumbudur tollgate, better than most I have seen on this highway. The ride with far more discipline, we rode in a staggered formation, maintaining constant pace for long stretches.
To reach Horsley Hills from Chennai, one needs to take a right off just after Palamner (196kms) and head to Madanpalli (+53kms) to Horsley Hills (+30kms). The hill itself comes from like nowhere and a short ride with 3-4 hairpin bends take you to the top.
We were a group of Pulsar 220, Pulsar 150 and Apache RTR 180.Myself and Devinder started and went ahead of Sathi/Saran. They had to pit stop a no. of times. By the time, Me and Devinder waited at Madanapalle more than 40 Mins.(But Devinder was saying "Where are these guys man..?We are waiting always for them "). After traveling some 280kms,We were to stay at Harita Resorts on Horsley Hills.
I loved the place . Harita is the only resort on top of hill around the region. It’s not much of a hill station, but the resort makes up for the lack. There is a decent pool, play grounds, good party area and well stocked bar. There are enough cottages to accommodate last minute travel plans. There is nothing much to do there, but if that is your idea of a holiday, its just 280 kms from Chennai!
About Horsley Hills:
A small hill station in Andhra Pradesh. If you search on the web you would get this. But when you ride there are no sign boards except when you reach the bottom of the hill before ride up a board "Welcome to Horsley Hills". That there are no sign boards put up shows where we lack in tourism promotion.
The roads in the route is not great by any change. There are pot-holes everywhere and you need to be careful. This is where group riding helps. The guy in the front always points to where the pot-holes are that the guys behind can avoid it.
Forget the pot-holes, long route, the ride was just great with a perfect weather.
It was cloudy slight sunshine at times but never a drop of rain. We had lot of pit stops, for breakfast, for pillion rider (its none other than Saran, who always want to stop the bike for Smoke or Tea) to cool their legs and general breaks. There was also not much traffic on the roads, not that it was Friday but the time we were riding in the morning, most trucks would be stopping for their quota of breakfast.
We never sped too much or went slow to spoil the mood. On most occasions, we were doing at around 80km/hr the perfect speed for a group ride. I would say that its a nice place to visit for a weekend, though there are not much one can go around for sight-seeing(except for us, NIFT fashion technology girls was there ). And definitely, you would notice the weather change to cool in the evening.
Cheers,
Sudhan.
posted by Unknown @ 4:01 PM
0 Comments
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home