Motorcycle Diaries - BR Hills
(For context, biking reference in this article is to motorbiking.) Searching for biking destinations around Bangalore, I picked Biligiriranga Hills, colloquially called in abbreviation - BR Hills. The choice ticked some essential things that I look forward in a biking trip: distance that allows minimum 3 hours ride, off the beaten path that brings more nature than smoke on the road, quietude and simple local food. A biking trip is an immersion in the senses. The machine binds you not only with the road, but connects you with your thoughts, the eyes capture the passing villages, crops sown or ready for harvest, distant hills, hardworking farmers, old women carrying dried sticks, cattle and ponds that may have few blooming lotuses; the wind against your body, the nose relishing the freshness of cold air in the forest and the occasional stops for a cup of coffee or, snack. The road trip to BR Hills started at 7:40am on a Wednesday morning with the sun trying t...