Medhak - Bike trip

Finally posting on the blog! And I had to post about this. On last Friday 2 of my colleagues were planning about a bike trip on one of this long weekend somewhere near Hyderabad. But all the plans fizzled out coz everyone had already planned going home and all. So finally we decided to go on the last Sunday itself.

And coz of lack of bikes finally we ended up with 3 bikes and 3 people- Nayan, Nanda and me. On Saturday I had team outing at Runway 9 (which was awesome as well!) with Go-carting and all. I simply could not resist staying late there even though we had decided to leave early next day. BTW I was not that fast on the four wheels and Joshi beat me hands down here. Anyway more about it some other time.

So I returned at around 1 AM on Saturday and we had to leave at 5.30 AM next day! I somehow manage to reach the starting point i. e. our office by 5.45 AM and took some snaps as Nanda was late.

you can see the sore faces in the (early) morning!

So we almost left on the planned time. We had decided to take NH 7 to go the north of H'bad. Took ~ 20 mins to hit the highway. And man the highway was awesome! Means I have traveled on roads bigger/better than this. But there was simply no traffic on the road. Had tea and then hit the road non-stop. One could easily drive ~100KM/hr non-stop on the road. And the three bikes (Avenger, YZ-135 and Unicorn) were very well capable of this!

Simply no traffic on the road!

As we had no pillion riders, there was no one stopping us. Nanda was the official photographer with all his photography skills. On the way we found some interesting road signs with distances upto Shrinagar shown!

As the photographer was Nanda, it's his bike :) And Shrinagar 2601! \m/

So after taking stops for taking photos couple of times, in ~ 1.5 hours we had to leave the highway to go to Medhak! And this road though smaller, was surrounded by greenery from both the sides!

Apna outh Indian hero ;)

So again after riding for around an hour, we reached the Medhak district. Now this district is known for the 2nd largest/tallest(?) catholic church of south Asia! And we reached here at around 9.15, just in time for the Sunday mass.

The Medhak church

So after spending some time at the church and having some breakfast, we left for our second destination of the day- Medhak fort. It's around 2 KMs from the church. And mind you this is not like the forts around Pune. This is more like tekdis in Pune. Nanda was marowing PJs one after the other which were not so great ;) So I decided to take pics in the mean time.

View from the top

Nanda somehow managed to climb up till the end and the view from the top was worth it! There was a mosque at the top and because of Ramazan it was kinda festive mood there...

So after coming down from the fort we left for the sanctuary. It's around 20 KMs from the fort. But after reaching there we got to know that we have to take permission from the Medhak district to get in here and we need a car as well! So going inside was not possible. So we decided to leave for the final destination of the trip, Pocharam lake. By the time we reached the lake, clouds had already gathered in the sky and the climate was getting awesome!

Took some rest near the lake as all of us were tired. And had some philosophical conversations too! Nanda continued with his PJs. But we were more than used to it now. :D

So as Nayan was hungry and Nanda had to work on Sunday :| we decided to leave place at around 2. On the way back went to Medhak again to have some food. And BTW there are only 3 places where you can eat in the Medhak district all of which serve South Indian. Finished that in no time and started the return journey. After coming on the highway the rain finally caught us. And it was raining like cats and dogs! But riding in the rain was never so much fun before! It was a perfect end to the 250 KMs bike trip. Unicorn was great as always! Hitting 115 KM/hr couple of times. It lacked the torque of the other bikes but it was stable like anything! I am loving it!

The trip was less tiring than I thought and we were back by 5 PM. Now planning for another bike trip soon!