Sixty kilometers cycle ride to the stones of Kurumbera Fort

by shalina kumari (India)

A leap into the unknown India

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Well, this travel was totally unplanned one. I live in Kharagpur, currently studying here. About two months back, I heard from my friends that some folks from our campus travelled to Kolkata i.e.Kharagpur to Kolkata by cycle which is approx 139.5 Kilometers. All the folks were male and after listening to this I wanted to go on a small cycle ride in a range of 100 kms. I was so excited for this but it's always like planned plan never works!! One day I became so reluctant, that I asked my bestie to go but on the other half I was so afraid as I am a girl. We planned that we will go on a cycle trip to Krumbera Fort which is 30km distance from our campus. We asked some of our common friends but every other person was like, you sound crazy. So, we kind of dropped the idea. Earlier we had planned that we will go on particular day but eventually dropped the idea as no one supported but I woke up in the morning and called my bestie. I was arguing hard to go. And finally we did breakfast and since it was not planned we finally started our journey at 10.45 AM. We turned on google Maps and there we were travelling..... It was quite a sunny day.After travelling kind of 12-13 kms... I was still afraid and asked him should we return halfway but he said trust me we are on our way and we will make it. Be brave!! His words were sunshine to me! We paddled and paddled.... When we were halfway... My cycle chain got tangled and he has to mend it... I was afraid it should not be tangled again... Yeah but it happen again for 2 times.... He was so angry at me... But last time it happened, we were just 2kms away from our destination and it was worst tangle but thank god, there was a cycle shop half kms away... That Dada mend my cycle... Phew!! We stopped for 3-4 times while going towards our destination and I had already had my bagpack with some food, drinks and medicines. I am quite a caring person ;) We reached there at around 2 PM, took some pics and eat food and finally was ready to come back... We have to make it before dusk!!! We had to travel around 10 more Kms and bestie was too tired... We had a pic together where I am motivating him yes we can make it just few more kms... And yeah we finally make it to Kharagpur. I was so realaxed and filled with hapiness that my all tiredness went away.. And we then went to library and watched some friends episodes!!! Happy travelling!!!!