{"id":18020,"date":"2014-02-27T22:45:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T17:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=18020"},"modified":"2014-10-29T18:00:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T12:30:53","slug":"day-6-edapally-to-ponnani-kanyakumari-to-leh-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/travel\/day-6-edapally-to-ponnani-kanyakumari-to-leh-cycling","title":{"rendered":"Day 6 – Edapally to Ponnani (Kanyakumari to Leh Cycling)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Still way to go<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Chettuva<\/a>
Chettuva Lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Chettuva<\/a>
Chettuva Lake in the background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After leaving Edapally at 6:30 am, bounded for Chavakkad today, taking the Edapally-Panvel Highway, little did I know that I would be cycling 35 km post Chavakkad and staying at an unknown place. My planned stop for today was Chavakkad but while I was having a coconut drink at a roadside stall some 5 km before Chavakkad, I asked someone about the place and was suggested to stay at Guruvayoor instead, 4 km ahead of Chavakkad.<\/p>\n

When I arrived at Guruvayoor, the scene was different and there was no single-room occupancy in the whole area. Double rooms were expensive as it is a pilgrim centre and the police has ordered not to offer rooms to single persons. Although I found two lodges which agreed to give me a room but they were quite expensive for my daily budget. After exploring the city for about two hours, I thought of heading towards another city, Ponnani, which I had to pass the next day. Ponnani is 29 km from Guruvayoor.<\/p>\n

After I arrived in Ponnani–a small place and nothing much in the city–I again thought of moving on, and after about 4 km, found a tourist home where after bargaining, sealed the deal for Rs. 300 for a single room. This area does not have a particular name but it falls in Ponnani only. I have already covered 35 km extra, 119.5 km total for today, gaining a lead for tomorrow’s ride to Kozhikode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After leaving Edapally at 6:30 am, bounded for Chavakkad today, taking the Edapally-Panvel Highway, little did I know that I would be cycling 35 km post Chavakkad and staying at an unknown place. My planned stop for today was Chavakkad but while I was having a coconut drink at a roadside stall some 5 km […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1285,"featured_media":18021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4474],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-travel","8":"category-unusual-india"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36624,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18020\/revisions\/36624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}