In search of the Valley of Flowers...

Planned my most dreamt ride to get Leh'd.. but as destiny would have it.. had to cancel it for my career :)
so i was still in hibernation for nearly six months..No rides.. only commuting is what i was doing...
finally a plan came up.. courtesy.. darth lucifer..
we need to find the valley of flowers he said.. in Maharashtra ...

where did we ride??
destination - Kaas (25kms from Satara)
distance - approx 300kms from Kings Circle
total distance covered in the day - 599 kms according to the odo..

what did we ride??
me - pulsar 180 dtsi
darth-lucifer - pulsar 200
Winzee - pulsar 150
Ambidexterous - pulsar 180
and the odd man out
RazorBlades - Apache RTR the riders with the beautiful Kaas talao in the background.. Decided to meet at 6.00 at Centre One -Vashi..
As usual our dear Darth had a early morning fall in powai.. he had his brake setting messed up.. good he fell at slow speed..
finally started from vashi at 6.45.. The weather was awesome.. actually i was shivering in the mesh jacket..
First stop for the ride was at R.K for breakfast. We reached there at around 8ish..

Winzee seems to be really happy at the sight of wada sambar..

razor and winzee in the background :) left from RK at around 9.. then it was a bliss to ride on the NH4.. The sun was out.. but it wasnt hot.. we were riding at good speeds..
this was somewhere on the way..


Had to keep asking locals for directions..
This is what i was told from the highway...
One has to go through Satara city to visit Kaas..
On the highway.. riding towards satara.. when you see stone quarries on the right side.. slow down.. this place is called Limkhind..
there will be a board which says .. Satara City to the left..
take the left to the go downwards and take the first right.. keep asking locals for MolachaWada..
From here ask locals for Rajwada.. here on there are no problems to reach Kaas..

1st sight of Kaas lake..

We stopped here to click some photographs of the lake..
we also found some wild flowers which were looking interesting..

But the actual valley of flowers had vanished.. the rains this time around were very scanty.. that is what the locals told us.. also we were late by around a months time to check out the flower valley.. better luck next time..
but the saver was the lake.. we had to climb the plateau and then ride down to the lake..
the water was nice clean and cold.. there were a lot of tourists mostly from pune who had camped there.. lot of broken bottles all around..
here are a few snaps..


Some more photography.. of posers !!!

Winzee tops the list with this snap :D
razor posing on two stones... ambi looks on...
thats our darthie..

Time to move on for lunch... Blue valley hotel on top of the plateau with a beautiful view was the place..Did not find any flowers in the valley.. so thought we should click from the garden of this hotel..






This was the last set of shots clicked on the highway..