This guy’s going to be get­ting a lot of calls for sure. 
Meet Sam­son, an auto dri­ver from Chen­nai, who has his own web­site, and incred­i­bly (yes, yes!) also turns on the meter!
When I think Chen­nai and auto dri­ver, my mind wan­ders to a jour­ney we under­took a few years ago — my sis­ter and I. We were […]

Day 3: Has­san to Madikeri

A day filled with scenic routes but a lot of climbs and pretty tir­ing too in the end. It turned out to be a long day for me. The best part was early on when we had the Gorur dam stretch opened up for us to cycle on — around 3–4 […]

On Day 1, we made it from Ban­ga­lore to Mysore via the National High­way. It wasn’t the most pleas­ant stretch in terms of traf­fic, but I was just glad that I could get this part over with. With trucks and other high speed vehi­cles all mov­ing at break neck speeds and honk­ing con­tin­u­ously, it’s not really con­ducive to cyclists. But after lunch on the road, we reached our des­ti­na­tion — the com­fort­able Hotel Regaalis and even got some time to take in some sight­see­ing in the evening. 

Eas­ily a place I could go back to : again and again. Fort Kochi. Wan­der around. Soak in the sights and sounds. Famil­iar cor­ners. Tashi cafe, the fish­ing nets and the synagogue. 

The Tour of Nil­giris mean­ders through the famed Blue Moun­tains of South India immers­ing you in the stun­ning land­scape, bio-diversity, cul­ture and her­itage of Kar­nataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. 

On July 24/25th, we headed out to Coorg and Wayanad with Mud­dy­Boots (a new adven­ture com­pany) for a spice coun­try cycling trail. Here is an account of the trip.

A quick update:
Five folks I know are in the run­ning along with their part­ners:
Charu and Vamsi — Charu is a fel­low travel blog­ger and always on the way some­where or plan­ning to!
Rohini and Tau­tik — An intre­pid trav­eller cou­ple who have cov­ered 18,673 km across 20 states in 114 days in their Santro. Quite amaz­ing!
Hrish […]

Of course we all know what hap­pens on Ban­ga­lore roads when it rains. But I was the least pre­pared for the events to unfold that night. After din­ner with friends at Indi­rana­gar I set off towards Kora­man­gala. It had been rain­ing for around an hour but I didn’t really real­ize how bad things were out­side.
The […]