day 1: bhimtal - naukuchiyatal - bhowali
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drove overnight from iitk on 21st, leaving 9:30pm. an hour later, Joydeep realizes he has left his tool bag behind - which means he isn't carrying a spare tube... there will be consequences to this... we reach kathgodam at 0530; by 0615 we are at bhimtal (1370m). kmvn guest house is full, but the dormitory is available. we book the entire dormitory with ten beds for 1.5K.
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binoy-am-jd at the bhimtAl KMVN tourist cottage - we set off for a circuit within minutes of our 06:15 AM arrival; island in the bhimtal lake; apparently it's an aquarium;
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amit helping the functionary lift a sluice gate...
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kids from a kanpur family; gabbar-singh; girls dressing-up in lehenga-choli
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two hanumans? large hanuman statue are de rigeur at many rama temples ; binoy posing above naukuchiya-tal; amit on road above the lake;
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map for day 1 rides: bhimtal - naukuchiyatal - bhowali * [ day 2: bhimtal-nainital-sat-tal-bhimtal]
* [ day 3: bhimtal-ramgarh-mukteswar]
* [ day 4: mukteswar-bhimtal-kathgodam]
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amitabha mukerjee for the bumpy trail bicyclists. sep 2011. feedback: mukerjee [at] gmail