Beast and its rides Trip 8 1980km
[Rameshwaram (Panban bridge, dhanushkodi Beach), Kanyakumari, Athirapally water falls, Silent valley national park, Bandipur national park]
It was an long weekend started on 3rd morning at 12am, with two new
guys joining us at last minute, we saw the sunrise in Madurai had our
breakfast, kept the bike at steady pace of 90kmph and as we were nearing
Panban bridge the scenery was breath taking just the road surrounded by
Indian Ocean and to add extra beauty to it, we saw two peacocks crossing the road, we stopped few meters before the Panban bridge for
our first photo bike was taken near the shore, surprisingly the water
was so clean, just as we finished taking pictures the train was passing
to cross the bridge, we raced before it could cross the bridge and took
some photos it was one of the best memories we can have, the water was
so clean and never in my life had seen such clean water except in
movies, from there we continued to Dhanushkodi beach on the way the an
traditional drunkard trying to cross the road came in middle of the road
and had to apply sharp brakes and the beast was in control, got in
water played for sometime, the place is the cleanest beach than any of
the beaches I had been, best place to enjoy without crowd. 
Kanyakumari
We left Rameshwaram at 12.30pm the stretch between Rameshwaram and Kanyakumari were bad, which took more time in negotiating the potholes and mud roads, since we are from Bangalore we were comfortable in navigating the stretch with comfort as our roads are the same here, added to this slow moving we were slowed down by the local people who were traveling to the Ayudha pooja celebrations and roads were blocked at some stretches and were late by 3hours covering 995km on day one, reached
Athirapally Water Falls (Super natural effect)
Day 2 we were slowed in kerala by their festival blocking the roads and
the road users were little weird not like Chennai people, it was little
respite to us we could cover only 370km riding from 9.30am till 5.30pm,
the falls close by 5pm so we had to take room as we had no other
option,we got in Pullikans lodge with a special room no 420 had our
dinner by 8pm and slept off early, during middle of the night two guys
in the room had some super natural effect, the guy sleeping next to me
was tossed up in bed and the guy other side of me heard some sound, but i
was dead tired and was sleeping like a log, got to know this in morning
when I woke up they explained me about the incidence. We were in
Athirapally Water falls by 8am the base view was splendid as Niagara
falls, had good fun and spent more time there. by this time all our
butts were ready for the iron butt challenge.
Silent Valley national Park (SVNP) & Bandipur National Park (BNP)
Near the base of the SVNP we were informed that we should be having
booking to enter SVNP and the booking was full for the next two days and
localite informed us about other route where we can sneak in but that
route is heavily guarded by forest staff, we didn't take any chance of
taking the risk and we continued our journey home we crossed Mudumalli
and BNP we spotted Deer grazing in large nos and some baboons on trees
and as usual monkeys on road, we were welcomed by rain in that region
we just waited for this from a very long time, the ghat just before
Gudalur is little dangerous as there are no barricades on the steep
sides.We took the Kankpura road to reach Bangalore near Malavali the
clouds opend up completley till Bangalore where we had to move slow in
30kmph as the visibility was very low.
Riders
1 Gajapathy
2 Santhosh Venkataram
3 Chetan
4 Raju
Bikes
Thunderbird 500
Thunderbird 350
Riders
1 Gajapathy
2 Santhosh Venkataram
3 Chetan
4 Raju
Bikes
Thunderbird 500
Thunderbird 350
