Day 3 (Aluwa - Trivandrum)

The next days plan was, Aluva-Alleppey-a few kms on MC Road and back-Kollam-Varkala-Trivandrum(Kovallam Beach). So we started off around 6 after strapping the battery back on the R1, we went in search for the fuel, unfortunately we couldn't find pumps with premium petrol and the Crazy Kriega bags made us stop for 4 times in 20 mins. We final found some pump which sold premium fuel filled in and headed towards Allepye, next 60 kms we encountered bad traffic which slowed down us a lot, final we reached Alleppey and headed straight to beach. The Alleppey beach is very clean compared to other beaches, may be its because every one are more interested in the back waters, seeing the clean beach i got very excited and drove into the beach, damn riding in loose sand is very difficult, after riding through the loose sand realized its not even possible to park the bike, called up Akhil who was seeing me thinking what the hell i was doing and asked him to get some stone so that i can park the bike, but the water was soo tempting so could wait for him to get the stone, mean while i removed my shoe and pulled the side stand on it and ran into the water, after some time Akhil came and showed me some old stone jetty where i could have parked safely, Akhil asked me to get the bike there, taking out the R15 out of beach was a task, the next 1 hour for me was full fun playing in the water. We decided to ditch the M.C Road plan and headed towards Trivandrum.

Few pics:

R1 parked safely outside the beach

Do i need to say more :)

The super clean and calm beach

Some struggling act

R1 and the beach

R1, R15 and the beach :D

Riders and the beach

After leaving the beach we stopped at some hotel and finished our breakfast, the next stop would be Trivandrum, the road was 2 lane and i was surprised to hear it was a NH, damn states highways are better, again the traffic haunted us. When we reached Varakal, Akhil pointed towards the beach and took a deviation, it was about 20 kms from the main road and it was worth visiting. This place was beautiful, as soon i saw the place decided when i come to Trivandrum next time, will halt at this place. Let the pics do the talking,

the clean beach

R15 posing

Me posing :D

Joe was waiting for us at Trivandrum, so we left soon, we met some XBHP guys(Sreeraj and Anup) who invited us to their place, so it was 5 mins ride to their place, spent some time with them and headed back.

Joe and his RD

Joe took the led, after reaching the city we passed through some tunnel, it was soo pleasant to hear the RD, R1 and my silent R15 exhaust notes in the tunnel, i said to myself again, some day will own an RD :D. Some thing was not good with the RD, Joe was struggling to ride it, it was the clutch cable, the cable came of from the casing, Joe asked us to continue and said he would meet us later after fixing the bike. It was around 5:30 when we reached Akhil's cousin's place, we were quick to ditch all our bags and headed towards Kovalam on my bike which was around 10 kms from where we stayed.

Kovalam has two beaches, Eve's Beach and Grove's bea. We parked the bike and walked into the Eve's beach, as expected the place was crowded, we soon hopped into speed boat and went for a spin. After this it was all walking in the beach and playing with the waves for me as Akhil was working on his photography skills. The sunset was superb.. Some pics:

Sunset

Me getting washed away :)

After some time Joe called up and said he was at the beach, we met him spent some time and headed back home. After we had dinner, Joe and turbo came along to Akhils cousin's place, we spent some time speaking about bikes and the stunt teams of TVM. We decided the next day plan and crashed for the day. We planned to leave early to KanyaKumari spent some time their and try to reach Bangalore, so it was a long ride tommorrow, around 700+ kms :)

Click here for Day 4 (Trivandrum - KanyaKumari - Salem)