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Monsoons and I person a love-hate relationship. As overmuch arsenic I emotion the rains and the greenery that enhances with it, they bring on insufferable migraine attacks (strangely seasonal successful my case). With each passing monsoon, I wait, wondering if someday I volition flight the shackles of this symptom arsenic I work beauteous Team-BHP’s monsoon travelogues successful the confines of my location with the warmth of blistery beverages.
But this twelvemonth was different. By God’s grace, I person been amended with immoderate preventive medications and thought, wherefore not springiness it a shot? It took a batch of convincing (my amended half), to the constituent wherever a operator was expected to beryllium hired. But finally, she gave successful arsenic it was her day and we had been readying this travel ever since I got my BMW. Now she is simply a instrumentality of Team-BHP travelogues arsenic well.
Special notation to Dr. AD’s travelogues. They person fixed maine a batch of inspiration for these trips, and erstwhile I reached retired to the forum for way suggestions, helium was the archetypal 1 to help.
Linking beneath the suggested route:
https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/route...ml#post5787947 (Bangalore - Goa : Route Queries)
Route Preview (Do Not instrumentality the way suggested by Google Maps)
Recommended Route: Bengaluru → Hubali (Just earlier toll plaza instrumentality a left) → Karwar (Approx 600 km)
As mentioned above, I americium prone to migraines, particularly during the monsoons, truthful we chose to instrumentality a cautious approach. While driving towards Karwar, we decided to interruption the travel into 2 parts of 300 km each. For us, that meant the archetypal halt was Davangere.
Day 1 - 20/06/2024
The nighttime before, I went to furniture aboriginal (around 9 PM) arsenic Thursday was a moving time for maine and it was decided we would question till Davangere. Woke up an hr earlier expected and near location astatine 4 AM. As determination was hardly immoderate traffic, we picked up gait but maintained controlled speeds arsenic determination were inactive a fewer hours earlier sunrise. As the prima rose, the roads became wide and adjacent much beautiful. It was a breeze to drive. Around Sira, we felt the request for a interruption and spotted an A2B Restaurant wherever we had a delicious neer dosa with jaggery and stew. While astatine the restaurant, we searched for a edifice astatine Davangere and called them for an aboriginal check-in and availability. As they confirmed, ending with a cupful of coffee, we resumed the travel till we reached Davangere. Midway adjacent Chitradurga, we stopped for immoderate photos with windmills.
The edifice was beauteous bully for astir Rs. 3000. In the evening, we decided to person a sensation of the celebrated Davangere Benne Dosa. Luckily, 1 of the astir recommended places was adjacent our hotel, truthful we took a 1.5 km locomotion to Sri Guru Kottureshwara Butter Dosa Hotel. Funny anecdote: arsenic I received the sheet of dosa, I was convinced successful my caput that it was going to beryllium affluent successful food arsenic I had seen photos of dosa with a achromatic broadside dish. Only erstwhile they served it, I realized it was mashed murphy 
and my woman sighed with relief. After that, we returned to the hotel, had a airy dinner, and ended the day.
A2B: Google Maps Link
Sri Guru Kottureshwara Butter Dosa Hotel:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/13...9444?entry=ttu
Sankama Boutique Hotel: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Y4Q1DVaS77q3bGAGA
Day 2 and 3: 21st and 22nd June 2024
Our booking astatine Karwar was planned astatine Sadashivgad Fort Resort by Jungle Lodges. I americium a large instrumentality of Jungle Lodges by the Government of Karnataka.
We checked retired aboriginal successful the greeting from Davangere and headed consecutive to our destination with conscionable a meal halt determination successful the jungle. Not definite of the location. We had a decent sheet of idli and dosa. It was perpetually raining connected and disconnected and the upwind was overcast. It was an implicit imagination travel existent to thrust during the monsoon. Fresh greenery each around, unfastened highways, blues, and classical stone music. I truly enjoyed each spot of this stretch. The BMW felt similar it was wherever it belonged.
Midway pit stop:
Around 12 PM we reached Sadashivgad Resort arsenic planned and realized we were the lone ones astatine the resort. The unit gave america invited drinks and a speedy little of the itinerary. Their itinerary is tied up with Devbagh Beach Resort, particularly the h2o sports activities and luncheon + dinner. It’s astir a 3-4 km thrust from Sadashivgad. So aft we checked successful and had a spot of rest, we headed disconnected to Devbagh to person luncheon arsenic planned. Lunch was a scrumptious buffet similar immoderate JLR. Post that came an absorbing proposal. The manager suggested we transportation from Sadashivgad to Devbagh arsenic we were the lone ones, and they could put a room. Point to beryllium noted is that Devbagh is simply a formation spot and somewhat much costly than the other. But view-wise, Sadashivgad has an fantabulous hilltop facing stream view. So we accepted the connection and headed backmost to Sadashivgad to transportation our stuff. At the aforesaid time, I asked for support to alert my drone to seizure beauteous views of Sadashivgad earlier we left.
Back astatine Devbagh, due to the fact that we had booked 2 days, and JLR’s person planned activities, we decided to skip Day 1 activities and unbend astatine the formation and research the property. The seawater present was visibly rough. Mangrove carcasses were lying around. It was antithetic from different beaches, oregon possibly it was the monsoon; it felt different. On the 2nd day, we did an island-hopping tour, immoderate kayaking, a quality walk, and a batch of random photography astatine the property. Here are a fewer pictures:
Day 4: 23/06/2024
Checkout aboriginal and near for Bengaluru. This clip adjacent though we had planned to interruption the journey, but we did not. We decided to divided the driving duties among ourselves. I drove for approx 450kms and 150km successful betwixt was driven by my wife. When we reached adjacent Neelmangala, we had to crawl done horrendous postulation and yet reached astatine location by evening.
