Day 9: Dharamnagar- Unakoti- Kailashahar-Agartala

Day 9:

Dharamnagar- Unakoti- Kailashahar-Agartala

Kms Planned: 190 kms.

As I had to do just about 190 kms that day and Anijit had asked me not to miss Unakoti, I got up a little relaxed and started off by 7:00am.


This is how my bike looked early in the morning cos of yesterday's ride.



I first went to the Dharamnagar Police Station to thank Mr. Jayanta Karmakar. He was delighted to see me. We sat in his office talking about my ride and he shared some insights about North East. He offered me tea and we had a good chat.

At Dharamnagar Police Station with Mr. Karmakar & Team. 

 I then started off towards Unakoti. As I reached Unakoti, it was drizziling and saw a team from BSF there who were there at Unakoti to see that cleanliness was being maintained & maintain the place as a community service. They had finished cleaning the place and were having lunch. The offered me lunch and I readily joined them. There I met a few Jawans from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra too. The Head of the BSF unit Mr. Thakur (Name changed as he did not want to be named) was also there. He invited me their camp for a cup of Chai.

More about Unakoti : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unakoti

One of the many Shiva faces carved out of the mountains

A short video of Unakoti : https://youtu.be/OI8gb-BZn9A

I then rode to the BSF camp and met Mr. Thakur (Name changed as he did not want to be named). He was from Rajasthan and was posted in Tripura since about a couple of years. He shared his experiences in the border areas from the extreme west to east. We had some Chai & Pakoras. I then took leave as I had to reach Agartala before dark. He advised me to take the border route instead of the highway as it was a much scenic & had less traffic.

The route was amazing with very little patches of bad roads and had loads of twists but were quite narrow. Riding on them was ecstatic. By about 5:40 pm I reached Agartala & rode straight to XED Motorcycles to meet Anijit Saha. I also met David who had come there to get his Thunderbird serviced at XED Motorcycles the only dealer of Royal Enfield Motorcycles in Tripura. http://www.xedmotorcycles.com/#


Me at XED Motorcycles.An RE is stripped & mounted on the wall behind me.

Anijit & I then went to Raasta Cafe https://www.facebook.com/RaastaCafeAgartala/ and met Biraj & Vinit Roy. We had awesome food and great time.  By the time we left from Raasta Cafe it was about 1 am. Anijit asked me to stay at his place for the night. Tonight am sleeping in at his place.

Anijit Saha mah Brother from another Mother

Done for the day


A short video of Day 9: https://youtu.be/9jjFUmXar7g

Route taken : Dharamnagar- Unakoti- Kailashahar-Khowai-Lembucherra-Agartala.

Road conditions: On advice of both the SHO Dharamnagar & BSF I took the border road and found it to be extremely nice with amazing greenery with lots of twists & decent condition.

Time well spent: Lovely morning meeting Mr. Karmakar & Team Dharamanagar Police Station. Some beautiful time spent at Unakoti, an amazing lunch with BSF team at Unakoti & nice tea, pakoras & chat with the BSF team at camp. An amazing evening with Anijit Saha, Biraj & Vinit Roy at Raasta Cafe Agartala.

Kms Done: 190 kms

Destination tomorrow: Agartala-Silchar-Aizwal.

Comments

  1. Sandeep19 September 2017 at 13:36

    Nice... new friends and Unakoti pic.

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    1. Unknown19 September 2017 at 18:50

      Yeah Bro there's a video of Unakoti too. Do watch it.

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