Biking Adventures with Brother

My brother and I usually are not at home, together, but when we are, we do a lot of trips around the region. My brother, Dhruv had come riding all the way from Gurgaon to Haldwani on his bike, Yamaha R15 recently. Usually he would have come by bus, but this time he brought his bike. So instead of driving, we planned to go riding on his bike. We took no cash, he had fuel left from the earlier journey, and we started off to explore a place that we had only heard of, Amritpur. It is located in the Nainital district of Kumaon, Uttarakhand.

As we departed from the highway to the unexplored areas, we were slowed down by the damaged road. But gradually as we proceeded, the road side cleared to grant us the magnificent view of the river Gaula flowing with its powerful flow of the Monsoon. And moving a bit forward we were glorified with the cool winds of the hills. After a kilometer or so the road was better than what we had experienced. And slowly moving towards the unknown we came across a diversion. While we were thinking of the road to take for today’s exploration we were helped by some travelers. Now we were off to a road which had been recently built.

A few more kilometers passed and we were excited for some adventure. The road was almost free of traffic and as long as we could see the road we saw no vehicles. We came across one or two small villages and then we finally saw an amazing view of the clouds, pouring the waters on the mountain ahead. We stopped to capture the moments. And then we proceeded to a few more amazing photographic spots on the road. Suddenly it started to drizzle and we came across the most awesome place of today’s trip. It was a cave, on a road with no traffic. Our knowledge from the National Geographic and the Discovery Channel stopped us from entering the rocky cave, it was Rainy season and the dark cave would be full of poisonous snakes and insects. And so we ended our exploration by telling each other we would come here again with the necessary equipment to explore the cave. We turned the bike around and took snaps and went to home to tell the tale.