Day 5 : Nagercoil-Trivandrum-Alleppey(very frustrating traffic)
I dont know whats with Ambulance's in Kerala. From Trivandrum to Alleppey i have come across an ambulance every 15 km ,(i haven't counted but was so frequent) either on the side of the road or zooming away with the siren on.
I had called my friend Vaishak who lived in Trivandrum ,the day before and had told him that i was passing Trivandrum and thought of meeting him . He asked me not to go in the city and that's what i also wanted and met him in the Bypass road for breakfast.
the breakfast. Idiappam for the first time. liked it.
just after riding about 120+km from the start point was exhausted and this was again a very happy sight for me.
I had planned to go to Alleppey before sunset and take a boat and roam around in the backwater taking some pictures. the plan just turned out to be reality. Reached Alleppey by 230 pm, took rest for an hour and asked my friend who own's the place to arrange a boat for me for about 2 hours . He arranged me a Shikara boat for me alone , which was just awesome. An 8 seater boat was just for me .
this is the place where i stayed.
name of the house
this place is a home stay . I would suggest anyone heading to Alleppey if they aren't staying in a houseboat to opt for this place. Its a Value for Money stay and a very friendly staff who are a group of young men running it.
it was time to get off my bike and chillax in the boat
people waiting for public transport(boat-bus)
In most of the places private transport is the fastest but here its the public transport which is the fastest.
the coolest thing that i have seen in Alleppey
the best way to save fuel.
sunset clicks
my friends from Poland Peter and Kasia Wilk
I have posted the above pic to thank those both though they will not be seeing the post . My cam's memory was full after all the sunset clicks and there was a computer in the home-stay . I decided to transfer all the pics from the cam's memory to my phone's memory. This decision proved to be very costly.
i transferred all the pics from cam's memory to the computer , with the command "delete the photos after copying from the device" -so foolish of me.
then tried to copy all of it to my phone with a card reader. Now i had a severe heart attack as the photo files were corrupted and were not able to be copied to any other device. I tried about 25+ times in different ways , at last i gave up and was damn sad that i had lost all the pics of my first solo ride . I was mostly feeling for the Dhanuskodi photos, as i had liked them a lot.
these 2 guys show up and Peter copied to his PSP and then from his laptop he transferred to my photos to my M card and also promised me that he will not delete them and if i loose the pics he would upload them and send me a link online.
In return i planned them the return route to Delhi for 2 whole weeks with all the places to visit.
in this process i have lost about 130 photos as they were corrupted and could not be repaired .
day 6 to be continued...........
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