Journey through the Wild West end of Bengal

Sutripta · 31st October 2013, 21:07

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Originally Posted by sbiswas

Here is the complete map of the route. C, D and E are Bishnupur, Mukutmanipur and Jhilimili respectively. Total trip was around 530 km.

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Hi,
Interesting route. And includes a section I have never been on!
Could you share your GPS trackplot please. (GPX preferred to kml)

Regards
Sutripta

sbiswas · 1st November 2013, 01:03

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Originally Posted by Sutripta

Hi,
Interesting route. And includes a section I have never been on!
Could you share your GPS trackplot please. (GPX preferred to kml)

Regards
Sutripta

Sutripta,

Here are the GPX files. 2.gpx covers Bardhaman to Bishnupur and 3.gpx covers Bishnupur to Kolkata via Mukutmanipur and Jhilimili. The Kolkata-Bardhaman part is absent as my GPS was offline during that section. Hope this helps.

GPX.zip

BlackPearl · 1st November 2013, 04:19

Nice travelogue and pictures. I have never been able to go to these places, every time I get a few days leave I find myself in Darjeeling or Gangtok. What are those tires on your i10? Though I am not a fan of Hyundai, I must say that your ride looks good with those alloys and fat tires.

sbiswas · 1st November 2013, 10:42

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Originally Posted by BlackPearl

Nice travelogue and pictures. I have never been able to go to these places, every time I get a few days leave I find myself in Darjeeling or Gangtok. What are those tires on your i10? Though I am not a fan of Hyundai, I must say that your ride looks good with those alloys and fat tires.

Yes, I too end up in Sikkim or Dooars whenever I get 4-5 days off. But these places are manageable over a regular weekend during winter months.

Those are Yokohama ES100 (185/60R14) on Plati alloys.

Sutripta · 1st November 2013, 21:01

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Originally Posted by sbiswas

Sutripta,

Here are the GPX files.

Hi,
Thanks.
The trackplot differs from the route taken shown.

Regards
Sutripta

sbiswas · 1st November 2013, 21:28

I avoided Sonamukhi to save time. I took some village roads near Bedugram which I can't find in Google map. Similarly, I took some village routes from Mukutmonipur to Jhilimili. These too are absent in Google map. The end route is shown as through Vidyasagar Setu while in actual it was through Nivedita Setu. Apart from these, rest should match.

Sutripta · 5th November 2013, 21:14

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Originally Posted by sbiswas

Apart from these, rest should match.

Hi,
Actually biggest discrepency is that Bankura is missing in the proposed route.

Regards
Sutripta

sbiswas · 5th November 2013, 23:25

Ok. Ignore the Google map then.

1st November 2013, 04:19	#18
BlackPearl Team-BHP Support Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Calcutta/London Posts: 3,608 Thanked: 16,998 Times View My Garage	Re: Journey through the Wild West end of Bengal Nice travelogue and pictures. I have never been able to go to these places, every time I get a few days leave I find myself in Darjeeling or Gangtok. What are those tires on your i10? Though I am not a fan of Hyundai, I must say that your ride looks good with those alloys and fat tires.
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1st November 2013, 21:28	#21
sbiswas BHPian Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Kolkata Posts: 142 Thanked: 58 Times View My Garage	Re: Journey through the Wild West end of Bengal I avoided Sonamukhi to save time. I took some village roads near Bedugram which I can't find in Google map. Similarly, I took some village routes from Mukutmonipur to Jhilimili. These too are absent in Google map. The end route is shown as through Vidyasagar Setu while in actual it was through Nivedita Setu. Apart from these, rest should match.
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5th November 2013, 23:25	#23
sbiswas BHPian Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Kolkata Posts: 142 Thanked: 58 Times View My Garage	Re: Journey through the Wild West end of Bengal Ok. Ignore the Google map then.
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