Ride to Silent Vally & Paithalmala
After the mishap in last ride in Kodachadri where my friend got severe damage on his knee, I haven’t planned for any ride. After six month of medication, my friend got recovered and able to move around, but not on bike. So we planned to have him in a car for our next ride and planned this ride. Silent valley, one of the destination was pending in my list for quiet sometime. Then i checked with my friend for some other place around Silent valley and got to know about Paithalmala. Checked with my friends for this ride and got confirmation from 6 more riders. However my recovering friend dropped out in the last minute, hence it become all bike ride. We planned to do our ride in August, as most of them made plans for Aug 15, we planned our ride on Ist week of August.
Bangalore - Silent Valley - Paithalmala - Banglore
When I started checking more about the places, I came to know about Jungle safari in Silent valley. As it takes more than 4 hours, the last trip starts @ 1 PM in afternoon. We thought of go for it, but we need to reach our resort by then. It will be difficult as we have to climb Ooty and ride on Ghats for more than 200km. Just to give a try to reach resort by 1 PM, we planned to start our ride by 3:00AM in the morning.