i was just too excited about the ride, heaving done all basic needs and checked all my items which i planned to carry with me for the ride. i filled my tank and came back home. i thought of taking more rest and sleep, though i knew that i wont be able to sleep for more.
It was just the regular night at 3.20 am when i set out from home after taking my parents blessings.As it was the month of december and cold was at it’s fullest form, some of our riders took abit more time to reach the venue for our flag off..
We began the ride at 3.45am it was cold and the fog was to its fullest, no matter what the weather was we were so excited that we just rode off!!
The route of our plan was…
DAY-1 : GUWAHATI TO BOMDILA
We started from khanapara (opp. hotel LILY) we rode through Nagaon and then Tezpur, At Nagaon we were welcomed by MOTOHEAD UNITED NAGAON, thanks to BEDANTA BORMOHELA for showing up brotherhood, we too a short break for tea and snacks at Nagaon bypass, after that we headed for Tezpur and had our breakfast on our way.At Bilasipara we too were welcomed by another biking group after alittle bit of exchanging glances and at the same time we all filled our tank again to fullest so that we never ran out of fuel :p.After riding through a great patch of smooth road We reached BHALUKPONG at around 12 noon and took permission from the authority as we entering a different state, That job was done very easily as we already made our ILP’s(INNER LINE PERMIT) at guwahati itself, we decided to fill our tummies they itself so that we continue our riding without running out of energy. we then kept riding through the rough mountaineous road for hours and at 6pm we reached BOMDILA, and decided to hault for the night there itself as all the riders we very tired.
DAY-2 : BOMDILA TO TAWANG
As it was cold morning and all riders were also tired we decided to relax abit more than usual and we ended up wking up late, which resulted in late start of our ride we started around 11.30 am and due to cold we could not ride that fast we were covering an average distance of 15km an hour, at that day itself we were overhelmed and excited as we encounted snow, which some of the riders had witnessed for the first time in their life we were so happy that we played wit snow clicked pictures as time just flew as a racing bird to its nest. We reached SELA PASS at around 4.30 pm, temperatue was -4̊̊̊(degrees) we could not spend more time there just clicked acouple of pictures around and started riding. The dangerous phase came when we encountered black ice before JASWANT GARH, I myself fell down from my bike thrice and other too fell down afew times but thank to almighty and nothing serious happened to us,as we were all using my safety gears. The snow fall also increased with the time, we were unable to ride and took alittle break, thanks to the BRO team for proving us free CHAI. After that we again started the rest part of our ride till we reach tawang we kept on riding on rain, fog and little snow and we reached tawang at 10pm. But as we reached late we were not able to find any hotel then some how with the help of local police we found a government tourist lodge and haulted for the night.
DAY-3 : REST DAY
DAY-4 : PTSO LAKE
The morning was pretty cold, temperature was just around 2-3 degree celcius.We had our had our regular breakfast in hotel itself and then we headed for the person who would hepled us to make our passes for bumla. After the passes were made we thought of not wasting the day and headed to explore the beauty of tawang,later on we went to PTSO lake and returned towards our place of hault.
DAY-5 : BUMLA PASS( INDO CHINA BORDER)
Thatv was a lucky morning because when we woke up we were able to see a clear sky and more over there was chance that the sun would come up. We left our hotel and headed for another milestone of our (BUMLA PASS 15200 ft), as we rode some of the most difficult roads there was not much problem as there was no snow on the road except (boulders and stones). Another problem that we encountered was high altitude sickness as the oxygen was gradually decreasing we were heaving alittle problem for breathing but as there our excitment level was increasing to reach BUMLA we kept on riding inspite of all difficult and reached bumla.
The INDIAN ARMY officials posted there was veryv friendly and generous the were very happy to recieve us as guest and offered us coffee and snack. The army Officials give us a brief about the place and showed us the bounday of our MOTHERLAND. Civilian were not allowed there to spend more than 20 minutes the oxygen level is only about (2-3)% and tempertature was only 3 dergree celcius during day. HATSS OFF!! to the INDIAN ARMY official for surviving in such place and protecting us.
We thank each and every official present there and started of ride toward our hotel, we didn’t stop much in between as were too tired and also we directly headed toward hotel filled our tummies and headed for a slumber.
DAY-6 : TAWANG TO DIRANG
Though we all very tired, we started our ride around 10 am in the morning, but we in a dilema of taking stops either in dirang or to directly make our way towards our respective homes. But since we too alot of stops admiring the beauty of arunachal, we reached our destination late and all the bikers decided to took a hault for the night.
DAY-7 BACK TO HOME
The morning was pleasent one, which made us sleep abit more. We packed our luggages and also compleated our breakfast in the hotel itself and left dirang and took a new route which diverges from RUPA via BHAIRABKUND the road was newly constructed super smooth about 180kms , we rode as fast as we could and only stopped to attend for the nautre’s call. We reached Rowta charalai by 6 pm and had our snacks there and headed towards our respectives HOME SWEET HOME’S.
As the journey of EXTREMWINTERRIDE came to an end and all our bikers reached home safely, with the memories to cherished for the life, till our next ride.
CHEERS !!
thebikertraveller 
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