Let’s go cycling

A bit of a contrast! Down through the lush green lands of Kerala’s Chinnar wildlife refuge,  full of waterfalls and vast valleys, to the bordering lands of Tamil Nadu. Over the checkpoint the landscape changed dramatically.  In the rainshadow of the Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu was instantly drier and the foliage changed from lush tropical…

5 days of riding through the state of Kerala. A little bit of everything! India day 5 August 25thFrom Erumeli to Kattappana ~73km2223m elevation. Yep…you heard right… Well that was a biggie. Up, up and more up. Today’s ride was spectacularly beautiful, marred a little by incessant rain for a good part of the morning…

India Day 1- Aug 20 Here we go. 4:30am alarm and our van duly turned up at 5 to transport the bikes (and us!) to the airport. A super quick flight had us landing in Trivandrum (or Thiruvananthapuram for those who want a tongue twister…) after just 35 minutes in the air. Everything seemed pretty…

From deluxe to basic… Aug 13, Day 18 – From Gondakawela to Deniyaya 65km …much consisting of mud and uphill! A massive breakfast at our new favourite accommodation… and you know they don’t see too many foreigners when the brekky guy asks for a selfie with two scruffy aging cyclists… So off we set with…

6th August – Arugum Bay to Monaragala Day 13- 77.5 km Skipped the lousy brekky at our overpriced, overpromised and underdelivered Accom and hit the road at just on 6am- assuming that we’d find something to eat not too far down the road 🙂 30km later we dug deep to find the random muesli bars…

Trincomalee to Vakarai Day 8- 82 kmtotal so far… 432km A 5am wake up call by a nearby (loud!) ceremony saved us from needing alarms, and we were on the road by around 5:30 to make it a shorter day on the road. Found a bakery on the way out of town and stocked up…

Anuradaphura to Trincomalee- a biggy Day 6 109km so far…350km Managed to be on the road before 6am to try and beat the heat as we knew this would be a big day. Figured we’d try and do the 100+km stretch to Trincomalee as not too many options to stay in between. We’re both starting…

Chilaw to Maho day 3- 59 kmso far…140km Managed to escape the night’s accommodation without too much interrogation from the resident American pit bull, which clearly wanted to eat us 🙂 A very mixed day today, with long stretches of (almost) deserted sandy track intermingled with the craziness of buses, trucks and motos. It’s hot…