2 months ago
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Hi chap T-BHPians,
We (wife and maine with Joy, our pooch) are readying a large North-South travel successful November via car and finalizing the program for our archetypal travel to South India. The superior places we wanted to screen are Munnar and Alappuzha with a detour to Dhanushkodi thereby crisscrossing from the South-West to the South-East. Complimentary destinations that we ended up including to our archetypal program are Ujjain, Satara (a person lives determination who has been inviting america since long, truthful wherefore not), Ooty, Kottayam and Hampi. Below is the plan:
Day 1: Noida - Ujjain (800 kms)
Day 2-3: Ujjain - Satara (790 kms, time 2 archetypal fractional for Ujjain sightseeing)
Day 3-4: Break
Day 4-5: Satara - Ooty via Mysuru (900 kms)
Day 6: Break
Day 7: Ooty - Munnar via Coimbatore (250 kms)
Day 8: Break
Day 9: Munnar - Alappuzha via Kottayam (180 kms)
Day 10: Break
Day 11: Alappuzha - Dhanushkodi (430 kms)
Day 12-13: Dhanushkodi - Hampi (1000 kms)
Day 14: Break
Day 15-16: Hampi - Noida (1900 kms).
Above program would astir look similar beneath connected G-Maps:
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Grea...oASAFQAw%3D%3D
Of Note:
- I americium adapted to endurance driving arsenic I support driving Delhi-Assam (2500 kms approx) each twelvemonth implicit a 3 time period, and tin screen 800-900kms a time if roads are implicit plains and decently good.
- I similar avoiding toll roads/ e-ways if imaginable arsenic I personally find the scenery precise monotonous and thin to consciousness sleepy connected the consecutive toll roads aft 3-4 hrs of driving which doesn't hap with NH/ SHs arsenic we are much actively progressive with the surroundings. Also, the enactment successful lawsuit of conveyance breakdown and predominant eateries implicit non-expressways are different factors which I look upon arsenic advantageous.
- I thrust a Kwid 1.0 and support an mean velocity of 75 kmph portion seldom crossing 85. I americium adapted to driving dawn till dusk and if roads permits, past till precocious nighttime arsenic good (total of 14-15 hrs of driving if I commencement aboriginal greeting by 7AM.
I americium looking guardant to inputs from chap T-BHPians connected beneath pointers:
1. Best way to travel arsenic per your experience, preferably non-eways. Common way mistakes for supra destinations and immoderate different way pointers you whitethorn deem helpful.
2. I americium looking to enactment successful hotels astatine Ooty, Alappuzha and Rameshwaram/ Dhanushkodi. Unsure if Dhanushkodi has enactment options, hence adding Rameshwaram for edifice accommodation. Any proposal for fund hotels oregon home-stays successful these places?
3. Planning to campy astatine Munnar and Hampi. Any recommendations for camping sites oregon connection of proposal peculiar to these places?
4. Places that should not beryllium missed astatine immoderate outgo successful Munnar, Kottayam, Alappuzha, Hampi as good arsenic Mysore. As a greenhorn traveler to South India, immoderate connection of recommendations from chap T-BHPians shall beryllium highly appreciated.
As always, acknowledgment successful beforehand for your invaluable inputs from america including Joy (in pic above). A committedness from my broadside to update a travelogue erstwhile this travel is completed.
Some pics of our thrust from our antithetic trips:
Gurez, Kashmir.
Nubra Valley, Ladakh
Pangong Tso, Ladakh
Dihing-Patkai range, Assam
Parshuram Kund, Arunachal
Mudh, Spiti. Drive safe!
