The Flying Bandits - Adventure begins - Kodachadri hills

Hellooo  Steeemitians!  

Today is a special day for Team Flying Bandits, we have now completed 4 years! and the team keeps growing, we keep learning more about traveling, motorcycles, people and places. The thing about travelling is we gain knowledge which we don't get in our day to day life nor at school/ colleges and books :)

Life is short, get out there and explore!!! :)

Here's the second ride we planned back in 2013 (what ever i could remember of it ;) ), completely unknown about the place we where about to visit. 

About 166 km from Mangaluru, the place called Kodachadri Hills has an amazing view. Not knowing about the epic challenge (you will know why, later on) we where about to face with zero motorcycling skills, we set out on this journey.

Equipped with a mobile camera, we tried to capture what ever we could.

The first pit stop

My first love <3 Bajaj Pulsar 150 :)

:D

Idly Sambar. Yum!

Second pit stop for breakfast

Group pic out side the hotel

And the ride continues

Kindly tilt your head as required :D

We reached the foot of the hill, and were enquiring about the road that leads to the top.

The locals told us the roads were bit difficult to climb and the people who come to view usually take jeep to get to the top. They also told a group of bikers came down few minutes before us. One among them was The Vespa Ryder (unknown at that point of time, Came across him many years later) and yes he was riding a Vespa! 

We were expecting a bit of offroading and we did get it. It was a 7 km journey towards the hill top.

And after seeing this, I cannot describe how tired we where just after 1 km up hill. The roads were steep and scary. The path was covered with sharp stones and not to mention the fine dust which made griping the surface worse!

We took more than 2 hours just to cover 7km! and just look at our shoes! :D

Was it all worth the effort? Hell yeah!!! :D

Reaching the top feeling :) 

Isn't this place beautiful!?

After having some refreshment, we set out to climb rest of the hill on foot (was accessible only by foot).

The amazing view

Climbing was the easiest part, descend from the hill on the other hand is much more challenging, as you have to control the motorcycle with breaks and engine braking, too much of break and we would have ended up crashing and non stop slide down the hill. This was an hands on experience we could ever get and we learnt more about our motorcycle than we ever could.

Hungry and tired, we started the descend from the hill.

Meeee

Finally we reached! The asphalt road felt like heaven! 

Let me know your thoughts in the comment below, what would you like to see in my future blogs - for example more of pictures or writing (i still suck on the writing part) or videos??

Thanks for all the love and support you guys have shown so far!!!

Cheers!