Bike Trip proposal for 2011

1> Bike Trip to BR Hills

Location : Biligiri Rangana Betta (Suggested by Sriki)

Attractions: Good nature sight seeing & Early morning wildlife Safari, Can Visit Shivana Samudra on the way, K Gudi.

Duration: 2 Days and 1 Night.

Why Bike Trip??

BR Hills is just about 200KM from Bangalore, Also I have been there in Bike once and it was awesome. This was the first time I was in a forest in an open vehicle, a bike. I can tell you all that, the view is much better than that from a closed vehicle. 

Plan??

So If we guys leave on Saturday morning, we will be there at our Destination for Lunch. There is a government Guest house for stay and it is very cheap. Rs.500 for one room with a good toilet and hot water. 10 of us stayed there in one room so, you all can imagine the size. No good hotel there to eat food, have to manage with the local stuff. Sunday morning we can go for a Safari, and after our breakfast we can go for a ride through K Gudi (The best forest Ride I have ever had, just can't explain the feeling). After that we can be riding back to Bangalore. Total Budget will be Rs.1100 + Safari Charges.

Entering BR Hills

K Gudi

Ride near Elephant Crossing

Orphaned Deer at K Gudi

Sunset in BR Hills

BR Hills Check Post

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2> Bike Trip to Manchenbele Dam

Location : Just outside Bangalore

Attractions: Doda Alad Mara (Big Banyan Tree), ISRO Moon Mission Satellite ground control Room, Manchenbele Dam and Trekking at Savanadurga.

Duration: 1 Days.

Plan??

Morning we leave Bangalore, see the above mentioned attraction spots, and then Trek Savanadurga (One of the Biggest Monolithic Rocks of the world). There are no Hotels, so we must carry our own food/water.

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This is just an alternative plan. If People cant make it to the 2 day trip then can make it to the one day trip.

Watch out this space for other proposals for 2011.

Fun Filled weekend at Goa

Tailor made for PIRT International

After a lot of Mess and Fuss, PIRT's Go Goa Project was executed. With most of the planning done by Shuaib, it turned out to be an economical and yet very Enjoyable trip. 

Nescafe Sunrise

We landed fresh at Goa, as Shuaib had booked Sleepers. The trip started of with a lot of confusion, rite from booking, canceling and rebooking tickets. Even the bus journey from Tin Factory to Bus stand was eventful with a bus breakdown and Shankar and Shuaib Boarding a Bus without Srikanth and Arvind, Later Shuaib jumped out of the bus accompany Srikanth and left Shankar stranded in the bus. With some planning lapse, we reached the bus stand 2 hours early.

Sunset

Saturday morning, we reached Vasco, and we went to Calangute and hunted down a room to stay and freshen up. There was a lot of Bus riding in goa up until then, as the Taxis and Autos  were over priced. Then We Rented 2 Bikes for Rs. 200 Per day per bike. From then on it was all Rock and Roll. Freedom from everything, We did what we wanted and just rode around without helmets and traffic cops. Every thing seemed so easy, without any kinda stress on mind. We enjoyed some water sports at Calangute beach and then we headed to Bhaga at the evening to have a dip in the sea.Shankar who was ill before even we left to Goa was recuperating and felt better after an hours fun in sea.

Anjuna Beach

Night crept and we stopped at all the roadside eateries and ate everything we laid our eyes on, some of them were horrible, yet we enjoyed the liberty. A lot of traveling on day one, and some fun at the beach, Srikanth and Shankar wanted to hit the bed, but Arvind and Shuaib had other plans - Saturday night market. Arvind and Shuaib went to the market and it was a good long ride in the night. To our delight the market was still on at 12:30 AM. 

Afternoon

Sunday's early Bird Prize goes to Srikanth, Who got up at 5:30 and woke us up, we all were ready and were in time for the sunrise. This is when we decided to take a boat ride and visit the Dolphins of the Arabian Sea. To our out most surprise, we saw more than 70 Dolphins. When we were in the sea, it was like we were surrounded by dolphins.The 45 min Early morn Boat ride costed us Rs.250 Per head.  

Shankar, Arvind, Shuaib and Srikanth

We took our bikes and put our wanderers cap on, just rode with not much on our mind for destination. We visited Chapora, from there on it was more like a crime scene investigation. All we did is ride and question people there. What are the sight seeing spots here? what do we get to see there? how to get to this place? and so on.... We covered a lot of places and some of the interesting places are Anjuna Beach, Vagator Beach and Marjim Beach. each one better than the previous. At last at marjim, the water and the beach was so wonderful that we fell in love with it instantly and decided to jump into it. We weren't prepared for it, Shuaib and Shankar bought shorts form a nearby shop and it was get.. set... wet... From there it was back to our room and then back to the Calagute beach for a night walk.

Fort Conquerors

Monday morning we again took a walk at the beach and went to see the Agoda Fort, Without the bikes this time. Spent some time at Agoda and then returned to our room saturated with Goa. Packed our bags and it was the sleeper that was calling us this time.... Bangalore, we were on Tuesday morning.

Agoda Revisited

Pics from Sriki's Cobra Cam

Pics From Arvind's Cam

PS: There are lot of openings in the Motivating and Planning dept., and Md.Shuab will be recruiting. Shuaib will now head a new department in our company: Risk Management. With loosing Rs.1800 and lot of time in Gupshup, As the Global head, I think he has gained experience to manage Risk.

PIRT Blog's First year Anniversary

It has been a year since we have started the blog. On this occasion I would like to thank all the Pirtans who have been a part of this blog. This blog has revived my sore soul so many times. The Blog has been mostly active apart from some silent weeks.

Hope in the coming years there are more valuable posts in the blog and active participation from all the Pirtans both in the blog and the PIRT events. We all know that, there have been few good events in the past year and many of them made it and some of them had to skip some events for some reasons.

Thank you all for participating and in keeping this blog alive and colourful.

HAPPY PIRT DAY

Naveen's Treat !!! Maiya Maiya

30-10-2010

A long pending treat from our very own Naveen. Its been about 4 years since he got married a job, and at last we got what we all deserve, an excellent South Indian Thali for lunch at Maiya's. After a lot of nagging and pressure from the Pirtans, Naveen, our Delivery Manager decided to treat us on 30-10-2010. All of us (Arvind, Ramu, Raghu, Sriki, Shankar, and Shuaib) were ready and there was no update from the Ultimate-Man Ambro and all of us thought this is a April fool's Treat, just like the April fool's Trip that was played well by Naveen.

Apparently Naveen was busy and late Morning we got a call from him and all of us were relieved that we dont have to pay for what we eat. 

The Unlimited Meals that was served there was more than what we could ask for. After lunch all of us were so full that we all sat outside for some while. All our stomachs were about to Burst.

Since he has finished his vital role for his current profile he is now promoted to "Delayed Delivery Manager "from "Delivery Manager". Lets all consider this as a promotion.

Its now time for other pending projects, Pirtans who have not yet delivered will be directly reported to Naveen. So, go ahead and perform your role, all your promotions are waiting.

Shankar's Birthday !!! :)

27th October

Happy Birthday Shankar!!

As Friends we all have come a long way in these 8 years.. We all are happy to have you as a Friend

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Naveen's Birthday !!! :)

26th October

Happy Birthday Naveen!

We are always with you!

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Prasanna kumar and Vinutha's Reception

Prasanna Kumar and Vinutha

Yesterday, we guys attended the reception. Sriki, Shuaib, Nishad, me and Naveen with broken hands made it to the occasion. We all had a good time together at the reception and ya at last something Vinutha attended. Had lunch at the reception, then we went to a park and lazed around there for while. After having some fun, it was time for Pirtans to get on to their work: Project Goa: Phase Planning. After some Brainstorming lessons from our Ambro on how to have a 9 day trip with just 3 leaves, Shuaib was into motivating others to bunk one Monday (somethings never change, and so does Shuaib's bunking habbit)

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More to come soon..