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TLDR: My valparai-athirapilly-munnar ride that I had back in 2016 is my memorable ride so far though I had a very recent kick ass experience couple of weeks back in the same route. Have attached some photos from the trip. 

It was 2016 and I had just started riding. Me and my riding friends were planning for a week long ride as almost everyone were single without any commitments like kids that time.

Unfortunately it was me and another rider who is also my mentor who got the leaves and opening for the ride.

So the ride was planned and we had Valparai-Athirapilly-Munnar as plan A and coorg as plan B.

The plan was 4 days of riding and 1 full day for resting.

So we started on Friday evening, as usual, and reached my mentor’s hometown which is 350km away.

Next day morning we understood it was monsoon time around Kerala and we were doubtful and so we checked coorg and guess what, it was raining there as well😅.

Being the young lads that we are, we understood that irrespective of the route we take, our undies are gonna get wet🤣.

As we had booked rooms in Munnar already we decided to stick to the plan.

We packed lunch from his dad and started our trip officially.

Boy oh boy little did we know that it’s gonna be a memorable trip at that time.

Had been to Valparai before, but along with family and not much scope for adventure.

On entering Valparai itself it felt like heaven.

Am really thankful even now that I decided to stop for this pic eventhough it was just about to rain and we were in a hurry.

We reached, and found we had 2-3h in hand before it gets dark.

So we visited some nearby attractions and then came back and rested for the night.

Next day early morning we started to Munnar and plan was to visit Athirapilly waterfalls on the way.

It was a hectic ride and while reaching Athirapilly we were all sweaty and stinky.

Thanks to the bath that we had in the falls we felt all rejuvenated and pumped up.

The entire ride was via a forest with not so good roads and now am surprised that I had done that with having such a heavy bike and tube tyres.

Won’t be doing such things now though😌.

The ride through Kerala was vibrant and you can see that in the below pic.

Reached Munnar late in the evening and hence we decided to rest and start exploring the next day.

Next day we explored Munnar and started back to his home town the next day.

On the way back unfortunately i had a fall due to an oil spill.

I didn’t have protection for my lower body back then so I had a scratch on my right knee.

Had first aid kit so used that and continued the ride but it was definitely painfull.

The next 10 days were painful enough to remind me about the incident and so I decided to buy a riding pant with good protection.

Overall, this ride taught me a lot of things, showed me a lot of beautiful things, some, eventhough I had already seen but gave a new perspective to them.

Couple of weeks back I zipped through this same route in my cbr 250r having thorough fun in the corners but still, the adventure I had for the 1st time in my thunderbird is unmatched♥️.

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Good day to you🫡.