Woke up early today as well. Same routine, dump all the stuff into the bags, rush downstairs, wake up the receptionist, ask him to get the bill ready, while I load the bike. Get stares from everyone while the bike is being loaded. Double check the luggage harnesses, load up the phone, gloves, and off we go.
Still in double minds as of the time I left, 630 am today – on where to go. Figured I have atleast 50 kms before I leave the needle of India stretch, so will decide then. Hit the same highway after that while returning – the one where the throttle knows no bounds, and the roads are empty – reached Madurai – 150 kms away. Pit stopped there for breakfast.
The beautiful part about Indian people – if there are language barriers between two people they look for a translator, and if no one is available, there is a noticeable effort to get the message across.
Happened again this morning at the restaurant I stopped at. Was looking for a combo meal and the waitress kept explaining the menu. Both of us looking around, found someone who knew Hindi and English – a little bit of both, and I got what I needed.
This is also where I decided that pondicherry will not make sense – being a beach, the heat may not really be the best. So then Kodai it is. The highway ahead was boring, so flipped out the Bluetooth speaker and played along until the highway ended and I was at the bottom of the kodai hills.
All helmets come with air vents, which well, let some air in for you to breathe. When at high speeds, the vents don’t gush in air, since the vents are tiny/meshed. What that does is actually make sounds… You can tilt your head one way and then the other to hear all sorts of whooshing sounds, witch sounds, you can literally make your own wind symphony with these – applicable only on long boring straight highways, not elsewhere where you would need more focus as opposed to doing a head Bob or making a spectacle of yourself on the highway. Worth trying…,
50 kms of climb, which was pretty good, although after munnar this is barely above average. Plenty of trees, but mostly brown and dry, probably the weather.
Kodai is a completely anti plastic zone – love that aspect. Wasn’t even allowed to carry my plastic water bottle, yeah they did check my bags at the border. Impressive.
Other than that like I said, fairly average, hardly clean, and full of people. Felt like telling everyone to head to munnar instead. The weather is as good though. No fans or air conditioning in the hotels here.
Not too many pictures today, since the sights yesterday trumped these hands down!
Tomorrow – again no clue, morning will tell.
