SANGUEM: After successfully completing a tour of South India on their motorcycles last year, four teenagers (three hail from Neturlim and one from Curchorem) travelled 4,500 kms on their bikes in nine days.
The quartet started from Karnataka and then travelled through Gujarat, Daman and Rajasthan including Mount Abu and Jaisalmer after which they returned to Goa.
Saurav Naik, Anush Prabhudessai and Vibhav Prabhudessai from Neturlim along with Franky Fernandes from Curchorem began their tour on November 14 heading to Karnataka. From there they went to Kolhapur and then to Gujarat from where they cut through Daman to proceed to Rajasthan.
“The best part of the adventure was the journey to Pakistan border where we visited the museum displaying various battle vehicles and armaments,” said Saurav Naik.
Anush Prabhudessai shuddered recalling his harrowing experience while travelling to Jodhpur from Mount Abu when his bike developed a snag and would not move at all.
“As all efforts failed, we finally reached Jodhpur with Saurav supporting me from his bike,” he said, while pointing out that they reached Jodhpur at 1 am instead of the scheduled time of 9:30 pm and after resolving the problem with the help of a mechanic there, they continued on their journey.
Sourav disclosed that they plan their tour properly first and select the shortest possible route to cover maximum places of interest. Sourav gave all credit for this year’s plan to Franky Fernandes, who he claimed as a Google expert.
They budget the entire tour by savings from the allowance received from their parents and this year the total cost of the adventure was around Rs 25,000.
The youngsters were all praise for the people of Gujarat and Rajasthan for their warm behaviour and said they did not have any sour experience throughout their journey.
Acknowledging that their parents would be worried about them, the quartet kept in touch with them constantly and would make it a point to call them every fifth day in turn.
While disclosing that they plan to make a longer tour next year to other places which they have not visited as yet, the four said anybody willing to join them was welcome to do so.
