DAY 2 : Chennai-Mahabalipuram-Pondycherry-Nagapattinam-Vailankanni.
day 1 was just spent in the hopes of meeting my friend and wishing him and having a party with him. but day 2 was when the real challenge started as it was SOLO form here for the next whole week. Must say i was a little worried bot the bike but wasn't worried about being alone ,because i had a mobile disco and a movie theatre travelling with me . that was my iPod and my mobile ,in which i had stored about 15-20 movies which i had not seen and few which i like to see repeatedly.
in the whole trip my iPod was the only friend to whom i would speak constantly and by the time i reached Pondicherry i had already turned in to SPB and Shankar mahadevan and the rest of them . i never knew that i sang so badly and which i liked . ha ha ha ha ha. i wasn't mad though!!!
the plan actually was that we party in the night and 26th morning we go on ECR and visit Crocodile park and Mahabalipuram and return to Chennai , the next day i was supposed to leave to Pondy. but time had its own call. my friend had to leave that day itself. so got his ksrtc Volvo seat and i dropped him to the bus stand at 7 and started my journey towards pondy.
the place where i stayed for the night in Chennai had a supermarket in the ground floor . got all the resources for the ride ie, kit-kat ,perk , munch , and Lodz of candy's. i don't like nuts , so snickers is out of the list.
first stop was Mahabalipuram.
I had many other options on the ECR to visit but due to my early start i had to skip them ,out of which madras crocodile park was one prominent one. so i had to directly hear to Mahabalipuram.
trying a little self-timer shots. 10 seconds is so less. and with that heavy leather and heavy boots and the heavy sun damn, i was sweating like pig. had to rest on a bit under the tree's shade.
when i was on short rides i never used to stop at a CCD but when i was riding on ECR when i saw this CCD just 20kn short of pondy ,the breaks automatically got applied . it felt like an oasis in the desert.
right in front of the CCD there were migrating birds . my camera wasn't good enough to reach there.
i had plans to get a full tank in pondy but at the very instant i saw shell fuel stations in Chennai , i just went in and got fueled up.
I had also visited one more beach in Pondy whose name i don't remember and a big beautiful church, unfortunately have lost those pics. i stayed in a home stay in Alleppey where they had a computer ,at the same time my cam's memory was full. thought of transferring the pics from my cam to my cell's memory. had a tough time getting the pics once the pics got copied to the system and got corrupted. at this time i was shattered . i will be telling about that later n in detail so i lost about 130 photo on the whole . moving on.........
It was just 130 pm in the noon when i was resting in the church at Pondy. while chatting with the people ,they suggested me to go to Vailankanni and not waste my time in Pondy after hearing my trip plan. i agreed and went there. by now people asking me where i came from , where i am going and why ????? was all a common question and also had become irritating . how many times would you tell people where you are going and all those names of the places that are mentioned on the map??????????????????
while crossing Nagapattinam bypass had small issue with a police man. there were 2 police ,1 constable and the other SI . he stopped me and asked me to get down . i told him the purpose and the complete route in TAMIL. the SI was just happy to know and surprised but the constable had an itch to check my luggage i removed the bungee and let him take a look and was happily chatted with the SI .
now it was time for the treasure hunt . as it was a long weekend and also some festival in TN. Vailankanni was jam packed . after searching for about hour and half got a room for 700 Rs.
parked my bike and it was time for street darshan on foot.
colors
Inst that clear but this some remains of the ship which hit this place and was the reason for all the constructions including the church.
I parked my bike in a restaurant and 1 guy comes running to me and asks "whats XBHP??? i know team bhp as i am a member of it in Bangalore" , i tell him and then he wanted the shortest route to Bangalore and i told him that , we became friends and had dinner together . He introduced me to his family of which his dad was also a passionate biker who rode a Vespa and did Lodz of chit chat ,visited the beach on foot which was about 2 km from the palace . We stayed at the beach till 12 watching the high tides as it was a full moon . I went back to my room at 1230 am .
I called it a day and rested .
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