Chennai - Ooty - Masanagudi 1800 Km Bike trip

Day 1

I would like to share my thrilling experience of bike trip from Chennai to masanagudi 1800 Km bike trip. I started from Chennai around 02.00 am along with my friend Kunal from Chennai IIT on my bike Yamaha Enticier. It was very heavy mist when we started our trip, before we cross Chennai limit we had forced to have a break. Then I turned on my high beam double focus doom light then we managed to travel with a normal speed 90 Km meter per hour. When we saw little light in the sky then we zoomed on the high way on 130 Km per hour. We reached Ulunderpet around 09.00 am we had our break fast in TTDC hotel food was not that much good. Again we sat on our sedan now it was little bit sunny we had some juice while riding and reached Salem around 01.00 pm. We spend some time in my college which is on the way, We got into the inner roads which leads to Gopichettty palayam and Sathyamangalam, It was much less traffic we maintained our speed limit 120 to 130 km per hour. Then we halted in our college guest house in Mettupalayam had our dinner waiting for our other friends who are coming from Bangalore. We saw them relaxed for some time went to bed.

Day 2

We got up early morning and playing UNO planning for the day, I washed my bike and did necessary check up before we start. Started from Mettupalayam around 09.30 am reached Coonur 10.40 am finished our break fast had some quick sight seeing reached Ooty around 02.00 pm. We saw some view points and water falls and taught of halt for the day, When I checked with my local friend he suggested for a stay in Masanagudi. Totally 8 bikes are ready to make trip to the forest road it was very slope we managed to travel in second gear for long stretch. We saw some couple of wild Bison’s and one Tusker elephant. We reached our forest guest house in masanagudi around 06.30 pm. We got warm welcome from Manjunath owner of the resort. He arranged for a jeep safari inside deep forest after our dinner. We got into two jeeps it was 11.00 pm it was much thrilling felling to step inside the silent forest. In few minutes we sighted Sambar deer, Spotted deer and Bison. We were eagerly waiting for elephants we heard one strange noise from a dense bush it was a elephant. Our jeep was silent for some time we saw our friend slowly coming from the bush it was a amazing view. We went to couple of spots where animals will come to have water. We are not lucky to see much animals there. We took around 2 hours to complete jeep safari. We came back to our resort and slept.

Day 3


We got up around 07.00 pm we discussed about the trip and had a great fun. My friends traveled in different direction to Mysore. Myself and Kunal came back in the same route to Ooty and reached Chennai around 12.00 pm to Chennai. It was a really very good experience and pleasant trip.


How to reach there:

Chennai-->Vilupuram-->Salem-->Sithodu-->Gopichettypalayam-->

Sathyamangalam--> Mettupalayam-->Ooty-->Masanagudi.



Note: If you plan to go masanagudi make your trip before 06.00pm.

They don’t allow any vehicle due to very slope road and dangerous wild animals.


Essential things to carry during bike trip

1. Original and photo copy on dated documents of the motor bike.
2. Original copy of driving license
3. Pair of helmets and sunglass if required.
4. Few puncture stickers .
5. One Clutch cable.
6. One accelerator cable.
7. One set of head lamp bulb.
8. Tool box kit to remove and fit any parts of our bike.

My Photo link of the trip:

http://picasaweb.google.com/ssmsarathy/060309ChennaiOotyMasanagudiBikeTrip#