Our video from the beautiful land of Uttarakhand… Two of us from CyclingMonks.com went for a fortnight long cycle ride in Uttarakhand. We rode in both Garhwal and Kumaon. The bicycle ride started in Dehradun, went up to Mussoorie, further up to Dhanolti, down to Tehri Reservoir, down and along…
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In the third blog of this travel trilogy, we go cycling around Corbett Park in Uttarakhand. We start in Marchula and end in Dehradun… After spending four glorious days in Kumaon, it was time for us to get back to Garhwal. As we reflected on the past few days, the…
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The second part in our Uttarakhand trilogy. We rode from Rudraprayag, cycling through Kumaon, visited Kausani and turned back to Dehradun… Often people travelling on motorcycles and bicycles ride for some cause. One current favourite is ‘women empowerment’. Where people ride, with a backup vehicle flaunting a lot of stickers…
View More Day 6 – 9: Elation in Elevation: Kumaon
Cycling in Garhwal is Elation in Elevation. You can only love the climbs. This blog covers the first five days of the ride… Uttarkhand has been home territory from the time I was knee high to a pup! We would go tripping there since forever. The place feels so comforting,…
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The pandemic has changed the way education is being imparted. Children no longer attend physical classes, where they ignore their teachers. Children now attend online classes, where they have easier ways of ignoring their teachers! Study Hard They Said… Jibin, on the other hand, isn’t a child. He is a…
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Meet Sameera Auluck from Ludhiana, a fashion designer and mother of three, who went cycling from Delhi to Mumbai in December 2020. Through the freezing cold winter of the north! With the pandemic raging on, Sameera along with a group of cyclists rode from India Gate in Delhi to Gateway…
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What do most travellers do when they visit Srinagar? They go to Dal Lake, click a photo of themselves there, post it on social media and head home. Not this young man from Dehradun. Abhinav Singh went to Srinagar, bought a cycle there and then rode down to Kanyakumari. With…
View More K2K amidst a pandemic!
A photo story of cycling solo from Goa to Kanpur via the Konkan Coast, Mumbai, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh just before the lockdown… Thanks to Mohit Gena for editing these pictures and making them look better than the photographer’s capabilities! These photos are from Goa to Mumbai. Post Mumbai,…
View More Photo Feature: Cycling from Goa to Kanpur