{"id":18321,"date":"2014-03-05T21:51:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T16:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=18321"},"modified":"2014-10-29T12:43:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T07:13:26","slug":"day-12-udupi-to-murudeshwar-karnataka-kanyakumari-to-leh-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/travel\/day-12-udupi-to-murudeshwar-karnataka-kanyakumari-to-leh-cycling","title":{"rendered":"Day 12 – Udupi to Murudeshwar, Karnataka (Kanyakumari to Leh Cycling)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have completed my first 1,000 km of ride today. Starting from Udupi at 5:55 a.m. in dark, before the sun came out, I had already covered 18 km of today’s ride. I guess it took my legs 1,000 km of cycling to become strong and they don’t ache anymore. Today’s pitstop was Bhatkal but I found nothing special in that city, so I moved on further 10 km to a small town called Murudeshwar.<\/p>\n

\"First<\/a>
First 1,000 Kms covered<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Before Bhatkal, I had to go uphill as Western Ghats again came in my way but when I reached up on a plateau, I got a view of a lifetime, with the Arabian Sea on my left and green Western Ghats mountains on my right side. Coming downhill was like flying as my cycle speed reached 40 km\/hr.<\/p>\n

\"Mahashali<\/a>
Mahashali Temple<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Time<\/a>
Time for snacks in front of sea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Somewhere mid-way, when I was riding, I heard a loud noise from a bus that passed by. It was a school bus and I saw many hands and heads peeking out of the window of the bus, waving at me. These gestures from people always keep me going. I have been noticing from the last few days that now people of all age-groups are motivating me as they nod their heads, smile and give me thumbs up when I pass by. This really makes me happy and the aches in my body fade away.<\/p>\n

\"Western<\/a>
Western Ghats in view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I came to know when I reached Bhatkal that this city has 42 mosques. When I was in the starting phase of my day today, with the beach just 20-30 metres on my left, I stopped by a food shop for omelette. The guy there told me about Murudeshwar, so I made up my mind there itself of making a night stay at Murudeshwar. It is a small village with very simple life and people living on minimal necessities. I liked this place a lot. Today, I cycled 103.5 km in 6.5 hours, which included all the stoppages in between.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have completed my first 1,000 km of ride today. Starting from Udupi at 5:55 a.m. in dark, before the sun came out, I had already covered 18 km of today’s ride. I guess it took my legs 1,000 km of cycling to become strong and they don’t ache anymore. Today’s pitstop was Bhatkal but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1285,"featured_media":18322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4474],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18321","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\/18321","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=18321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36569,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18321\/revisions\/36569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}