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Goa- Sand and Sundowners!
Day 24- 29 in India…beach hopping 🙂 Well…Goa is rather different to everywhere else we’ve been so far in India.As soon as we crossed the border the change was evident. Green roadsides, barely any rubbish and strict road regulations enforced. Quite noticeably, the number of bars/liquor shops now outnumber most other retail outlets- very unlike…
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Monsoon season!
Day 22-24 in India…out of Karmataka into Goa So…Neil spent quite a bit of time researching the weather in the region before we left Oz. He pretty carefully planned some likely routes to try and avoid the worst of the monsoons in both Sri Lanka and India. And full credit- he’s nailed it for the…
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Karnataka
Our third Indian state…and very different again to Kerala and Tamil Nadu Our introduction to Karnataka was Bangalore- so we didn’t expect it to be representative of the rest of the state. 15 million or so people in one little space surely can’t provide an overview of a land mass covering over 190 000 sq…
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Bengalaru
Bangalore really needs it’s own little blog. 15 million people somehow crammed into a pretty small space and making it work! We decided to spend a couple of restful days here, a bit of luxe, a smorgasbord of food options and plenty of (good!) beer on offer. Traffic.Countless tuk tuk drivers lolling around with seemingly…
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Tamil Nadu
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…
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Kerala…the road to Munnar
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…
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India here we come
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…
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And that’s Sri Lanka!
And that’s it! This is the abridged (and very amateurish 🤣 ) version of our circuit- 24 days in a country we really love and will hopefully visit again! Day 21- heading back up the coast August 16th- A leisurely but drizzly ride up the western coast toward Colombo. 85km and pretty much flat 🙂…
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Galle!
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…
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Horton Plains
Day 15- Ella to Nuwara Eliya Day 15- 56 km Elevation…1440 or 2461 – depends whose gadget you trust! Neil somehow managed to record an extra 1000m on the same ride…sigh. but whatever the correct reading, it was a whole lot of up today and I was pleased to see the end of it! It…