Mumbai: When the 22-year-old Prisiliya Madan set out on her bicycle from Panvel, 50 km from here, last month, she was confident that the months of training will help her make it to her destination Kanyakumari all by herself.

However, exact itinerary and a plan of where to stay at the end of every day's journey were missing. All that Prisiliya, a student of Masters in Computer Sciences at a city college, had was distances and the gradients of roads etched in her mind, and a list of people on the way who could help.