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Arnab Mandal and team covers 2700KM in 12 days - on bike!

As we reached Idukki we decided to visit the Idukki dam. Idukki dam is famous for its twin dams. The best of the two dams being the massive arch dam. It is Asia’s biggest Arch Dam of 555 feet height proudly standing between the two mountains - ‘Kuravanmala’ (839 meters) and ‘Kurathimala’ (925 meters ). The Project harnesses a major portion of the power potential of Periyar, the largest river in Kerala State, by the creation of a reservoir of 2,000 M.cum (2 Billion Tones) capacity, diversion of waters thus impounded through a water conductor system consisting of a power tunnel and two underground pressure shafts to an underground power house situated in Muvattupuzha Valley. The big mistake we made there was that we did not see permission to take photos before hand and the personals there was not much fluent in conversion in any of our known languages. It was a long walk to reach the dam but we were pretty disappointed that we were not allowed to take photos. It was an hour walk over there to reach Arch Dam and I particularly was not enjoy it.

And the route?

Hyderabad->Mehboob Nagar-> Kurnool->Ananthpur->Penukonda-> Chikbalapur->Bangalore->Hosur->Rayalkottai->Palakkodu-> Pennagaram->Perumbalai->Mechcheri->Mettur->Bhavani-> Perundarai->Vijaymangalam->Tiruppur->Palladam->Udamalpettai->Chinnar Forest->Mariyoor->Munnar->Idukki->Thekkadi->Kottayam-> Kumarakom->Allepey->Quilon-> Ambalappuzha Sri Krishna Temple->Ernakulam->Kochi->Mattancheri ->Guruvayur->Ponnai->Malappuram->Kozikode->Nilabur-> Madhumalai->Bandipur National Forest->Mysore->Bangalore

That is one hell of a ride!

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