Plant tree ride- Day 5

Day 5

Last day was a disaster. I thought that was the end of the journey. I would have to take train to return home. After I finished previous day’s ride and had my lunch, I rushed to toilet. I had loose motion. I thought it was normal because of the physical stress and the heat. So I went to sleep. But after sometime, again i had to go to toilet and it was same. Then I got alarmed. I took medicine and started thinking about next plan. I had two days ride still left covering approximately 200km. If the loose motion get worse, i wont have energy to push that much. Anyway, I thought lets pass the night and decide in the morning depending upon the situation. Took another medication in the night and went to sleep.

In the morning i woke up at 5 am and went to toilet. Situation was not that bad. After that eat some biscuits to see if my stomach gives trouble but nothing happened. It gave me hope. I decided to stick to the plan. So i packed my luggage and checked out of my hotel room. As i was about to start the journey I found that my tracking app, strava, had crashed. Repeated tries went in vein. So i had to download runtastic. After that my journey finally started for the day.

 That day my destination was upto Kharikamathani rural hospital. In the morning time roads were empty. In no time I was out of Jhargram town and was on the way to Chilkigarh. In between there was a very small but beautiful forest. Due to stomach problem of previous day, I didn’t look for tea shop that day. After crossing Chilkigarh temple my destination was chicira via Jamboni. The road was good untill now. But from 8-10 km before Chichira, the road turned into hell. It was very narrow road. One side of the road was excavated for road construction. Dirt, dust was all over the place.  But finally I reached Chichira.

After a few kilometres of ride on highway I entered the road of Gopiballavpur. The road was beautiful. Initially there was agricultural fields in both side of the road. But gradually jungles started to show up now and then. Then after crossing Subarnarekha river and leaving Gopi behind the jungle really started. And this jungle is elephant territory. 

One of my favourite place near Kharikamathani is Narda bandh. There I have seen many new plants previously. And this time it had not disappointed me. I had seen a new butterfly here. After that I paddled for the last leg of that days ride.