{"id":20755,"date":"2014-04-12T21:27:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T15:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=20755"},"modified":"2015-04-13T14:17:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T08:47:44","slug":"day-49-nagaur-to-bikaner-rajasthan-kanyakumari-to-leh-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/travel\/day-49-nagaur-to-bikaner-rajasthan-kanyakumari-to-leh-cycling","title":{"rendered":"Day 49 – Nagaur to Bikaner, Rajasthan (Kanyakumari to Leh cycling)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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While cycling from Nagaur to Bikaner, I felt the real desert heat as I was heading towards the desert city of Bikaner. Sand beside long, lonely roads has its own beauty and I was quite mesmerised by it. The scorching heat of sun was felt less as I was completely involved in the surroundings and in the excitement of reaching Bikaner. I have been hearing about this beautiful city a lot from an Army officer friend of mine who was posted here four months back.<\/p>\n

\"Geared<\/a>
Geared up to save myself from heat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There were times when I looked back and forth and all I could see was only me in this arid region. Whenever I used to cross people on my way, they saw me as if I were an alien and I felt awkward. A few people I met thought that my cycle was automatic and when I changed gears, there was no need to paddle it. I had a hard time making them understand that it was a bicycle and needed paddling to move it. And then to some, gears were no use on a bicycle.<\/p>\n

\"Way<\/a>
Way to go…..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As I was about to reach Bikaner, I was cycling up a small elevation and all of a sudden, I could see this big concrete city ahead of me, springing up from nowhere in the middle of the desert.<\/p>\n

\"Hot<\/a>
Hot and arid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I came across the famous Karni Mata temple 31 km before Bikaner. I cycled for 117 kilometers in 6 hours and 15 minutes to arrive at Circuit House in Bikaner. I have a friend (IAS officer) posted here in Bikaner, who got accommodation arranged for me in the Circuit House, where other senior government officials stay. There was tight security of police when I reached there, as 17 April would be the voting day in the city. I feel really lucky to get to stay in the Circuit House and it gets added to my new experiences during this tour.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While cycling from Nagaur to Bikaner, I felt the real desert heat as I was heading towards the desert city of Bikaner. Sand beside long, lonely roads has its own beauty and I was quite mesmerised by it. The scorching heat of sun was felt less as I was completely involved in the surroundings and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1285,"featured_media":20756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4474],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20755","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\/20755","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=20755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43482,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20755\/revisions\/43482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}