Showing posts with label Adventurers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adventurers. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Malari Tales, a young lawyers tryst with a deserted Himalayan village.

Some travelers are so stubborn that they don't turn back even in the face of steep odds, sometimes reaching the destination is the only goal they have.


 Malari Tales is the log of a  young lawyer  from Delhi, who went on a ride on his trusted bike, Apache RTR, to Malari, a remote Himalayan village, near Indo-Tibet border.

His journey starts without any drama, and he reaches Joshimath after a grueling ride from Delhi.

The real adventure starts next day when he decides to go to the border village of Malari on his bike. After riding on bad slushy roads, zipping at high speeds on a smooth stretch of black tarmac, he reached a point where the road was block by a rock slide. Instead of returning back to Joshimath, the brave lad decides to  ditch his bike, wear his helmet and  trek up to the village in the fading evening light. 

As the the light fades away the lawyer overcomes another, much bigger landslide, slips and stumbles on snow and ice, and some how manages to reach an army post, where after a serious interrogation his request for shelter is turned down. 

So our hero again starts his march in darkness to the village ahead, and when he reached it ...he was surprised to find only a deserted village, with not a soul in sight, and every door padlocked with big iron locks...it was as if fate was closing one door after another, and testing his courage and patience.

His  hopes for finding food and shelter dashed to the ground he walks around the village trying to find an open door ....but his luck doesn't stand...and he has to break a door to find shelter from the howling winds, numbing cold, in that eerily silent village, where the fear of the harsh elements, wild animals and ghosts... all seemed too real to ignore.

A real tale of adventure, and a man's courage, where he stands alone against the loneliness of the harsh and deadly terrain of high Himalayas...read this interesting and inspiring travelogue here .

Friday, December 12, 2014

Bluee , the 50 years old Volkswagen Kombi comes to India !

Jens Jacob a 37 year old German and his Indonesian wife Cynthia have been motoring around the world in their vintage 1965 model 1500cc Type 2  Kombi Volkswagen van, they have traveled through 26 countries and recently they were in India.

It was in January 2010 when Jens after getting bored with his monotonous life, decided to make a change and travel through Europe.

Jens found the Kombi van nicknamed 'Bluee' in a place near his hometown in native Germany, and it was a case of love at first sight for Jens when he  set his eyes on it. He collected all his money and bought the fifty year old van, and since than he has traveled more than sixty thousand kilometers in it. 

 He has visited 25 countries including Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Dubai, Oman and Iran, now they are headed to Indonesia.

It was in 2013 while walking on a beach in Dubai that Jens met  Cynthia, who is a native of Spama islands in Indonesia, a  avid traveller herself, after two months they decided to get married.

This couple united in their wanderlust enjoys traveling through new counteries and cultures a lot, and take the difficult task of maintaining a fifty year old vintage van  in their stride.

You can follow their travels on the couples Facebook page - Bulliadventure


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