Last-Minute NYE Trip 2012-13

Still not sure what to do  for New Year's Eve?

You're not alone. Most of the people put off thinking about how they'll ring the new year until very last minute. For procrastinators with a bit of planning in their blood, here is a last minute New Year's Eve Travel Deal - Pack Up and Celebrate the New Year some where special!

It is in the foothills, and it has great slopes, and it rubs boundaries with the famous Jimmy Corby, yeah, the Jim Corbett National Park, the trails that the epic God roamed once.

If that wasn't enough, it overlooks the river-valley of the great river Baur. (It is not so famous, and in our work, we treat that as a great thing.) We farm like anything in this camp - all organic, all outbound, fresh veggies and stuff, and can actually harvest them for your own dinner, while you are following the trail of the elephant.

Let us get together and have a life 'out there'. Call us, email, get in touch, fill it up people!!

PLAN:
29th DEC 2012: Departure from Qutub Minar, New Delhi | 10:00PM in a Delux Luxury Car for Ramnagar, Uttranchal - 250KM

30th DEC 2012:  Arrival at the camp. Camp briefing - freshening up followed by a good hot breakfast! A short familiarization trek in the surrounding forest. Valley Crossing, Ladder Climbing.

Lunch

Rappelling & Splash in the "Baur" river
Collect woods from the neighboring dense forest for evening bonfire
Dinner
Night Trek (Optional)

31st DEC 2012: Early morning short walk to "Bawan Seedhi" to reach the hill top temple to have a bird eye view of the densely forested Baur Valley.
Breakfast
Rock Climbing & Valley Crossing (Tyrolean Traverse)
Body Surfing
After  Lunch at the camp...take out your 21-Geared Firefox Mountain Bicycle for a small ride along gentle routes through foothill villages & farmlands with a few mildly challenging routes in the forest or go to the hidden temple inside the dense forest, explore wildlife in the dense jungles of the Corbett region.

Reach back to the camp in the evening to celebrate New Year Eve around bonfire. Now, whatever we will do is a surprise...............lets, leave it like that over here!

01st JAN 2013: Green Tea + Lemon Water + Water....and more Green Tea + Lemon Water + Water....that's you're gonna ask after last night's bonfire. 

For those who still have some energy left....can choose to try lil more tougher trail on their mountain bikes or simply...choose to relax at the Baur River Bank.

Lunch
Depart for Delhi
Reach back Delhi in the evening!

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Accommodation: In American Safari Tents on twin Sharing Basis

Tariff: INR 9,999/- Per Participant

INCLUDES:

• Pick-n-Drop from Qutub Minar, Mehrauli, New Delhi 
• Delux Luxury Car for pick up.
• Full board meals in the camp
• All the adventure activities: Rock Climbing, Rappelling, River Crossing, Body Surfing, Mountain Bicycling, Ladder Climbing, Short Treks, Splashes, Night Trek 
• Bonfire
• 21-Geared Mountain Bicycles with Safety gear (Helmets+knee-elbow guards, Hand gloves)
• All field & safety equipments
• Instructor
• Escort from  Delhi - Camp - Delhi  

 For Bookings & more information:

+91 88 0018 0333
+91 11 2953 1419

info@hidustanmotorcycling.com
www.hindustanmotorcycling.com

NOTE:  We have limited seats for this event and bookings are happening on first come-first serve basis.

The Highland Himalayas Motorcycle Ride

What would someone who has just been back from a Himalayan motorcycle ride talk about? - Mountains, cold weather, rains, zigzag roads, tiring drives, mountain sickness, tourist spot etc.
Well, when we were back from The Highland Himalayas Motorcycle Ride, we were talking about the black pea grains, white pea grains, enthusiasm, belief in oneself, teamwork and how to make impossible possible.

Lights a bulb in your brain? Well, here you go!

Most people go on with their lives, never taking a pause to think of what all they had planned to do when they were kids or teenagers. Most people go on doing what their daily chores require them to do. Any pauses that come are probably cigarette breaks where colleagues whine about not being able to take a pause.

The above situation changes when your motorcycle leaves the asphalt road and dives into a slippery mud path and does not stop at any of those sharp turns you thought it will not be able to negotiate and it climbs and climbs and climbs and slowly, the feeling of danger gives way to a numbness that makes you think – What if it ends at this moment! The result is a pause and the process of thought. Entire life runs like a film in your mind and you wonder how much more there is to life than you currently are doing.
I will never be able to look at Hindustan Motorcycling as a company that takes me to these tours. If anything, I look at it as if it is my alma mater. Most important thing that these companions in the journey of self-exploration have done is made me think about my life, my personality and why do I behave in a particular way.

In the beginning, continental food at 6000 ft sounds like a bliss and a discussion that analyses your behaviour thread by thread seems a little too much. Post two camping-experiences with Hindustan Motorcycling; I look forward to it every day.

It is just not possible to explain what Hindustan Motorcycling does to your thinking and your way of looking at things. The most important part is not that they do it – the way they do it with all the freedom and leisure is amazing.

However, on coming back to Delhi, one has to be ready to listen to a complaining girlfriend or a boyfriend say, “Next time, you are not going anywhere where your mobile does not work.”

Cheers to HMC Team!

Guy Jones

Participant – The Highland Himalayas Motorcycle Ride
Malaysia

Thinking While Thumping!

Hey Everyone,

I've been performing this rare phenomenon of 'THINKING HARD', and I want you too, to think.

...Here are 3 questions that i, want you to answer in less then 250 words. Answer can
vary from a word to a sentence to an essay. Here we go:


Q1. What does motorcycling mean to you?

Q2. What does photography mean to you?

Q3. How are these above related, if at all?

Cheers, have fun wearing your best thinking hats!



Please send your answers to info@hindustanmotorcycling.com or simply put them as comments here itself.

N.B.: The Best ten answers will be chosen & writers awarded a
special Hindustan Motorcycling Company award!

The Unexplored Kumaon Motorcycle Ride

"We started on schedule, late in the evening for Old Delhi Railway Station on Day 0 but could manage to reach Kathgodam Railway Station only by noon the next day, against the planned arrival at 5 O'clock in the morning. We were quite okay with train getting delayed due to one of the thousands of reasons we have learnt of, over a lifetime of using Train Transport in India.

However, on that day, it was something new. I enquired with a stranger at an unknown stopage and he told me that it was because of the rains that the engine was unable to pull the train up to Kathgodam. Then, someone else told me that it was due to some problem in the hose pipe. All this while the train kept stopping and restarting.

Finally, when we were short of our destination by about 3 to 4 Kilometers, the engine got into an extremely bad mood and refused to buzz at all. The replacement would take at least 2 hours to arrive, and then God knows how much time to drag us to Kathgodam. So, following the age-old tradition of explorers who believe in DIY, Surbhit told me to abandon the train, and sounded like adventure....!"

So this how our client Mr. Pant would probably describe his experience of getting introduced to the THE UNEXPLORED KUMAON .

So that ride remains swift and comfortable, I had reached Kathgodam one night before, riding my ROYAL ENFIELD ELECTRA 350 all the way from Delhi overnight.

I have to confess that after having ridden solo on Delhi-Goa-Delhi, and Delhi-Laddakh-Delhi routes a few times, this ride was not all that exciting till...........till that famous left turn towards Dariyal after crossing Moradabad.

I also have to confess that even after having ridden solo on Delhi-Goa-Delhi, and Delhi-Laddakh-Delhi routes a few times, riding beyond this left turn still gives me shivers, especially at night. This ride is along a district highway(Zero Traffic) that follows the periphery of the famous Jim Corbett National Park, which is full of elephants, spotted dear, wild boars, fox, rabbits and Neel Gai. Yours truly, by the way, has had honour of being chased by a wild Tusker (Elephant) on mast for several Kilometers - yes! I was on a motorcycle showing a South African Wildlife expert - but let us cover that story some other time.

So, I managed to reach Kathgodam at around 3am. Stayed at a Dharamshala (sort of motel)and went straight to bed as the train was scheduled to arrive in another two to three hours.

Anyways, after all the hustle-bustle of train incident and picking up Mr. Pant from that unknown train stoppage, we came to the railway station, loaded our machines up, and went to refuel ourselves at the local Udupi Restaurant - a short ride and big refuelling with lassi, uttampam, dosa, sambhar and a cup of coffee to wash it all down.

And then, we started thumping.....!

(Rest in Next ......have fun watching the album of this ride! And don't forget to comment!)

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