Team Dragerz: 11/03/12

Bike Trip From Nagercoil To Kodaikanal (2008)

Overall Kms: 764 (Upward =342kms, Downward=342kms, Extras=80kms)

Time taken: (Upward=8hrs, Downward=9.45hrs)

Riders: V.Anto Jose (Age 20)

M.Benitto Raj (Age 19)

Jeba Anish (Age 19)

Sathish (Age 20)

Bikes : Suzuki Shaolin (140cc) and Bajaj Discover Dts-i(125cc)

OVERALL TRIP PLAN

DAY 1

We Started by 12am.

It’s a very calm time around midnight. We Dragerzzz, started making rough noises in the streets of Nagercoil (vetoornimadam) and we were ready for the trip to kodaikanal. This is somewhat a planned trip.

Then we move towards a petrol bunk in vadaserry to fill up petrol and then we were hardly moving towards Tirunelveli. It was some 78 Kms and on the way we were caught in police check post near Kavalkinaru (24kms from Ngl). They enquired us for the reason and we said, our friend marriage function was going to be held in Tirunelveli, so we people going by bike. Then they demanded some tips from us and then we gave it and got escaped from them and then moved towards tirunelveli. Finally by 1.30 am we have reached Tirunelveli. We felt somewhat hungry, so we preferred a hotel in tirunelveli bus stand.

Our Next check Point is Thirumangalam. Its 132kms from tirunelveli. We started moving towards thirumangalam. It’s very difficult to ride in the night, since the bike head light doesn’t support us as much. We can’t go very fast, and it’s very cool in the night since it was month of December. Finally we reached Thirumangalam by 4.30am.

AT THIRUMANGALAM

There we took a coffee and then moved towards Kodaikanal. Its 126 Kms from Thirumangalam. Our eyes were hardly seeking towards the bottom of the hill, and having a steady ride towards that, and finally we reached the bottom of the hill by 6 am in the morning (Batlagundu). Its 65kms from Thirumangalam and then we moved towards kodaikanal from there. On the way we had experienced the wonderful scenic beauty of kodaikanal hill (The Queen of hill station). Really she is the queen, and I loved her…

ON THE WAY TO KODAIKANAL

Then Finally We reached Kodaikanal by 8 am in the morning and booked a guest house to take rest and had morning Tiffin there in guest house………….

SMALL REST IN GUEST HOUSE

MORNING TIFFIN

Here Comes the sight seeing of Day 1

Kodaikanal Lake

Kodaikanal lake is also known as kodai lake is a manmade lake located in the kodaikanla city in Dindigul district in Tamil Nadu, India. Sir Vere henry Levinge the collector of Madurai,was instrumental in creation the lake in 1863,amidst the kodaikanal town which was developed by the British and early missionaries from USA. The lake is said to be Kodaikanal's most popular geographic landmark and tourist attraction.

BOATING IN KODAIKANAL LAKE

BOATING

Next we moved to Kodaikanal Upper Lake View

Here Comes the photos

KODAIKANAL UPPER LAKE VIEW

OUR RACING THROTTLE IN UPPER LAKE VIEW

Next We moved to Kuna Cave. Kamala Kasan's Kuna movie had taken here only

KUNA CAVE VIEW

ON THE WAY TO KUNA CAVERON

TEAM DRAGERZ IN KUNA CAVERON

Finally closure of day 1 and we felt the feel of mist around kodaikanal and then moved to room

NIGHT SUPPER

DAY 2

SIGHT SEEING OF DAY 2

In the early morning hardly about 8 am we woke up from the bed and got ready for the sight seeing. Morning the guest house owner provided a strong coffee to us.

MORNING COFFEE

The guest house owner were very much friendly with us and the we took photos with him and his staffs.

WITH GUEST HOUSE OWNER AND STAFF

GUEST HOUSE OWNER'S CHILDRENZ

Then they initiated and guided us for some areas.

PILLAR'S ROCK

Some while we started to move towards Pillar's rock. Here Comes the photos of pillar's rock..

SUICIDE POINT:-

Then we moved towards Suicide point.Its very near to pillars rock and golf club. Here comes the photos...

GOLF CLUB:-

Here comes the photoshootz:-

NEAR GOLF CLUB

SILVER FALLS:-

Here comes the photoshootz:-

SILVER FALLZ

The sun was going to settle its home... We peoples were also looking forward our home.. We started from there and move towards Nagercoil. We decided our next check point as Madurai. It was just 108 kms from Silver Cascade Falls. We had a rough ride ride from there since sun was going back to its home. It was quit difficult to rode in hills during night. Hardly 10 to 20 minutes there to become dark.

So we had a race between us. The race between SUZUKI SHAOLIN AND BAJAJ DISCOVER. We have crossed 53 kms in just 45mins on the roads of hill station. Now we were in the bottom of hill. We took some photos there.

By 7 pm we have reached Batlagundu. And We reached Madurai by 9 pm which is 55 kms from Batlagundu. Then in Madurai we had a small shopping and finished our night supper.