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The Chailastic Riders

Travelogue on Chail, Himachal Pradesh

By:Nishant Jha | Read more Travelogues by this Member
Posted on: Jul 09, 2008
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This Ride was done without much of planning and still we had 7 Bikes and 9 people in total…the bike riders were: 1. Diptinder aka Dips & Kenny 2. Manpreet aka MP 3. Varun aka Lambu 4. Nilu aka Sinha Sahab & Cena 5. Gyananath aka Gyaan 6. Puneet 7. Nishant aka Che There were 2 in an Alto as well…Manish and Jawed aka Maalu with Manish driving and Maalu taking turns for clicking snaps, being a passenger and also a bike rider !!! he surely is a multi-tasker !!!

The major high points of the ride were Dips’ Navigating skills, Doegar’s accident, My Taping skills (or the lack of it !!! ) , MP’s continuous blabbering, Maalu’s continuos search of his 2 kinds of maal (both used for intoxication)--- Girls and Gaanja, Lambu’s photography & SLR flaunting and also Puneet’s very very fast riding without his brakes functioning properly !!! I would discuss each one of them in detail in my blog… The most important and the most disappointing was Dips’ bad bad navigation skills and also his Map reading abilities !!! he modified a 350 kms ride into a 520 kms ride and we naïve & trusting guys went by his route and suffered damage !!! and to top it off the roads he led us to were the worst roads to ride…full of dirt, slush and stones…though he would differ but I am sure the rest of us didn’t stop abusing him throughout the ride for his blunder… DIPS you have been FIRED !!! now stick to riding and leave the route planning to others…please for heaven sake don’t let the trust break again !!!

The ride started infront of the Leisure Valley Park in Gurgaon with me, Puneet, Dips and Manish starting towards Delhi where everybody else was supposed to meet…here also Dips chose the worst possible place to meet…infront of a Landfill Site…imagine standing at a road where all of Delhi`s rubbish is thrown…this one was Dips’ discovery !!! good he stuck to Software otherwise the world would have been a worse place to stay with Dips discoveries !!! then Maalu, Doegar, Sinha Sahab and MP joined us and we started for Panipat where we were supposed to stay overnight at Gyaan’s home…soon we were riding at top speeds on NH-1…it was a short distance of 100 kms which we covered in 1.5 hours and then reached the Indian Oil Refinery Township gate where we were abruptly stopped by the sleepy and ever-so-alert security guard who was zapped out of his senses by the thump of so many bikes !!! firstly he could not understand why we all were there…then Dips used his English Vocabulary skills and we found our way in (now don’t ask me what Dips told him, as it might be too tough for us poor & uneducated souls)…but still it worked !!! on the way we had picked our share of Beer and Whiskey…we got fresh and got busy with the main tasks of the night…eating, drinking & blabbering!!! that night the entire quota of Haryana’s chickens had found their way to Gyaan’s kitchen for all of us hungry demons to devour them !!! believe me there was endless supply of Chilli Chicken for us…initially we managed to gobble up but then we could not match !!! it was like the Great Wall of China which never ends…Sinha Sahab was at his best…gulping away pegs like a hungry villager first getting access to clean drinking water…it was tough matching his pace for anybody…Dips tried as he always does but didn’t succeed (again as always !!!)…soon we were full till our necks and decided to call it a day as next day we had to get up early to start our journey towards Chail…but nobody knew what was in store…as Dips had some other plans…of leading us to an endless journey !!! on the smashing (yes literally spine smashing) roads of Haryana !!!

There are 2 ways to reach Chail from Delhi... 1st Route : 500 Kms. Delhi - Karnal - Yamunagar - Nahaan - Paonta Saahib - Kandaghat - Chail 2nd Route : 350 Kms. Delhi - Karnal - Chandigarh - Kalka - Brahmpur - Solan - Kandaghat - Chail There is not much to do in Chail besides lazing around and relaxing... The main high points being the Chail Palace , The World's Highest Cricket Ground, The Kali Maa Mandir on the Mountain Top, The Sidh Mandir...Apart from that nothing else.

We started at 7:30 in the morning…stopped at a fly-infested road-side Dhaba for our breakfast with flies constantly giving us friendly company…they were in millions !!! Doegar opened his SLR and flaunted his camera to all of us…sadly nobody was giving him much attention but still he continued clicking snaps of all possible things…of the engine, tyre spokes and what not…then the mother of all journeys started with the worst potholes greeting us with unstoppable good mornings and our minds and hearts were abusing non-stop as well !!! we reached our first stop…the Gurudwara Paonta Saahib in the afternoon…did the Darshan and had our Langar…the heat was energy sapping with the Humidity making us wet (don’t think otherwise with the word “WET” !!!)…after some time the mountains started and the weather cooled down a bit and we started to enjoy

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Travelogue on Chail , Himachal Pradesh

By Syam | Mon , Jul 14, 2008
very Nice it is...

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By Gagga | Mon , Jul 14, 2008
Very Nice pictures !!! Especialle the Mushroom ones. Liked the templete seletion also.. Great going, best of luck

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By torque-o-logy | Fri , Jul 11, 2008
i olways hd repect fer dis amasing rider bt it grows wid evry trip dat he makes...words fall shrt wen i tink f writin bout him. Keep up d gud work sir n wud lyk to c u as an proffesional suun kudos..!! n yea ime pullin ma hair out ta vote fer ur blog bt nut able ta figure out hw ta du dat..lolzz

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