Cherrapunjee, also called Sohra, a town to
the west of this one, is allegedly
the rainiest place on earth. It’s also certainly the wettest desert on earth, a
place where the denuded topsoil retains neither the rain it receives nor lets
much but scrub grass grow. The limestone hills around are riddled with caves
and carved with waterfalls, and my assistant and I took the day off work to go
on a visit. Both of us had been to these places before more than once, but
there’s a fundamentally different experience in going somewhere by motorcycle
than there is by car. A biker will immediately know what I’m talking about. For
others, well, never mind - for today. I’ll educate you some other time on that.
So,
here’s the photo feature of the trip. We’re planning a further and longer trip
in the near future.
The bikes and the riders:
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| My bike: Royal Enfield Desert Storm |
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| My assistant (and fellow rider) |
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| Your travelogue guide and motorcycle gangster-in-chief |
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| His bike (left and below): Bajaj Avenger |
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| On the road |
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Mawkdok :
A photo feature specially on a trip to Mawkdok is here. Mawkdok happens to be on the way to Cherrapunjee.
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Mawkdok Gorge
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| We kept running into this particular tourist family in Cherrapunjee too |
Nohkalikai Falls:
This is about five kilometres on the other side of Cherrapunjee. Cherrapunjee itself isn't worth the pixels it's photographed on, so I did not bother.
Bill, It's incredible but our immediate thought that the countryside looked a lot like Turkey! Lovely pics and as we say here, "iyi yolculuklar" (happy trails - woof woof).
ReplyDeleteBeautiful set of photos. I guess how much fun you all had. I looked at those countryside photos and I also thought it resembled Turkey... Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeletewow, thank you :) great captures ... love the rooster haha :))
ReplyDeleteyou look well, thank you for sharing
I enjoyed the pictures of your ride. I just started taking rides on my husbands motorcycle this past summer.
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