OneRideOneIndia-Day-11

Day 11
          Day  started good as i was feeling 100% to go and hit the road....again.....today the majore event was invitation to have proper bengali food at sovik's house made by his mother.lunch was amazing so many dishes i had fish,prawns,jack fruit,etc with rice to end it up with ice cream from souvik father's icecream factory.i thank heartfully to souvik and his parents becouse i was in mood to hit road next day early morning towards guwhati where a new state of Assam waiting to show its secrets.evening after making all packing in went and had food at Kalpataru pics hotel and i must say i have never eaten so soft motton its so properly cooked and taste amazing with lot of spice.i did click pics as its was the path for my next project "Tongue On Wheels".after heavy dinner i had smoke alittle walk and slept to wake up again to start the journey.hey forgot to tell you guy i met this young chap Tanmoy Ganguly amazing rider amazing bloger treker ..and what not....i am sure he will be pretty well know in coming years if he continue with the same passion to explore places and food also.on that note my day 11 ended to start again towards North east India.

OneRideOneIndia-Day-10

Day-10
Got up early and was feeling better but not 100% yet so decided to stay a day more in siliguri.sovik and gang came for morning breakfast we had breakfast and then i asked them about the royal enfield service station it was not far from my hotel.next 2 hours i was expecting to be spent there after a heavy breakfast i was in no mood for lunch and i tried the fish and rice day before at DADA BHAI...so was also not keen on fish.at service station not much to be done just a genral checkup,oil topup and got the wind pipe changed as in delhi it was not aviable what a pity should i say for delhi or royal enfied company spares....:D...after that i went to room for rest as it was important.evening by 4:30 shantanu banerjee and gang came to meet me at hotel the founder of xkmph nice guys passionate about travel and bikes i like the idea and the enthusiasm for riding and traveling there are amazing places around siligudi like dargeeling,sikkim and of course northeastern states.we chatted about places and onerideoneindia thing.they got with them two guys from sikim which were part of xkmph and just returned from bhutan so we chatted about their experience.after they left i rested for while then headed to market area for a stroll with sovik and finally i tasted the momos that what siligudi is famous about 15rs and 8pcs of most amazing taste and aroma i had...:D....then he left as he had his exam and even i didnot wanted to keep him with me for long as it might give wrong impression to his parents i dont blame anybody but myself.hey forgot to tell you sovik got a sweet made from his mother its name i forgot :D.....but some posto..somthing..amazingly awsome sweet and also got invitation to have lunch at his house made by his  mother now that was a treat and trust me guys i must tell you no matter what all you eat but home is home and mom's cooked food has no match.around 8 i went for dinner wanted to have Chinese

OneRideOneIndia-Day-9

Day-9
Morning was heavy as i guess the bath with cold water did bad to me and was with heavy head cough and cold.so the destination was siligudi for next two days till the day i feel i am good to go.told sovik to get some medicin poor guy he had his exams and i was felling bad that i am keeping him engaged.after a light breakfast had medicin and took rest till 2 then went for stroll outside as too much of bed also make you sick so headed and asked few local people for a place with good bengali food so one suggested me about DADA BHAI a small but old food joint for bengali food ordered a thali  and fish food was good had sweet at a shop and headed to hotel room for rest.the whole day went resting which was important for me .

OneRideOneIndia-Day-7,8

Day-7

Started by 10am and stared for narayangadh journey was long and i reached hethuda at 9:30pm night searched for a lodge got one by name hotel overseas ordered food beer and ended the day like that.was stoped by nepalpolice they were doing there formalities and pushing me that it will cost extra as you late but i was determined not to pay as i was suggested that they take money like that i told politely to police guy that i am coming from delhi ,today coming from kathmandu and tomm a long way to sillgudi then he said ok go.so keep in mind about that and offcourse petrol where ever its available fill it up dont take chances you might end up with no fuel and many km to go.

Day-8
A lazy day got up by 8am went to call at home as phone was not working went to a isd booth after a half km walk and while coming back had breakfast that one good sweet shop with poori and bhajee.i must say its was small but pretty buzy market or may be i was staying in the center or market started from hethuda again a long journey with nothing but bit heat i guss better that delhi as people said its has crossed 45degrees in delhi.that was i was blessed and tourning to nepal save me form heat the road nearing nepal india border after crossing koshi bridge was pathetic but some how manged and stoped at small food court to have some food for power a plate of chowmine that the best i can have anywhere,more 120km to got i started again and by 7:30pm finally reached border called up sovik a rider from Xkmph motocycling club in siligudi for a second he was shocked by news of me near siligudi but hat off to sovik and his friend(sorry forgot his name i am very bad with names)they came to high way to recive and guide me to hotel they arranged for me economical suited me.so for the night i had plans to stay in siligudi had  bath went outside for food and found one sardarji's dabha had simple daal and roti and ended the day there.

OneRideOneIndia-Day 6

Day-6
          We got up late ordered bread,omlet and tea and started in search for DC office to get the permits for bikes extended as we decided to stay few more day.as usual like India every body is telling his story about the procedure of making custom papers for bike.there was again Nepal band but crowd was nice and they let us roam around as i told them i am from India and wanted to extend the bike permits after going to so many office then came to know that things to be done at Nepal airport custom department,afterwaiting for and hour or so finally things done and then i headed to thamel the most happening plaace in nepal.if next time i am coming for sure i am staying at thamel as amazing highend place with lots of good food joints live bands restaurents etc,few to name fire and ice pizzeria said to be one of the best places to get pizzas in Asia i\we ordered beer name Nepalese nice beer smooth taste.and some spicy pizza i forgot the name...:D....but must try place the headed to hotel york to had that millet beer thay call it thumpa but would say it for winters to keep you warm and try at your own risk...;P....the headed to few places listen to few songs and had beer at as many live band places as i can.after everything was clased they closed every thing by 11pm so headed to lodge offcourse after so many beers u can assume i was lost and actually i was then a biker came and asked where you from and where you want to go his name of tenzin and was from tibet he guided me to new bus park thank to him and god bless him gave him my no. and told him work in india call me...so day ended like this