Bicycle ride to Pondicherry - 7th & 8 th september 2013

The Culinary Arts are so powerful that it can white wash any sort of pain and put you up there in a different level of sensation. Yes, we reached Auroville safely and to celebrate the tour, we feasted royally. 

Auroville in Pondicherry is such a lovely place on earth which touches many spirits and resonate with the wind-chimes and invites you countlessly. 

Suhash reached there in the afternoon and was waiting for us anxiously till we reached Atithi Guest House at 11 pm. 

Me, Khuram and Chaitanya were reliving our childhood memories while penetrating through a nearly deserted pitch dark road in a rainy night with the accompaniment of the orchestra by the frogs all around - it was their night absolutely - and there were enough reasons for them to be so happy - it was raining heavily in Pondicherry ! It was so acoustic and fluidic sound that mesmerized us thoroughly on our saddles with almost zero visibility. 

The guesthouse people wanted to meet us curiously when they learnt that we will be coming from Chennai by bicycles ! It was so late on saturday night that the meeting had to take place in the next morning and they were very cordial. 

While riding within Auroville, we got a fun place to hang out for a while - Peaceful City. We spent some time doing some crazy stuff. 

As the main ride we could do on day one via Mahabalipuram with a fabulous lunch, we took the day two quite easy and set a relaxed pace for everything. 

On the way to Pondicherry through East Coast Road was heavenly and me & Khuram were racing in-between at 33 kmph - hard to believe for me but true atleast for good 15 kms or so and few smaller stretches. 

The road was flat and perfect for road bikes by any definition except the rash traffic towards the evening but thoroughly enjoyable with the scenic beauty all along the left side as you get to see the waves are breaking at the shore till Mahabalipuram and after that the ocean goes little far from you and again comes back near Pondicherry - the route was very playful.   

Manick joined us from Chennai till somewhere midway and he had to go back to Chennai to join his family and we proceeded to our destination just before people started getting crazy which normally happens on a long ride ! 

Two days just went off so fast that by the time we realised that its so refreshing we had already hit the most beautiful Pondicherry marine drive where Khuram was feeling so tempted to test his MTB realtime on the shore boulders ! 

The night was so calm and quite in Pondicherry that posted the next visit invitation in our mind - we will meet you Pondicherry for sure again !