Kiran,
If you haven't already started on your trip, do take a piece of advice from me. I did Hyd-Goa last month in a Honda city with two other friends of mine and trust me-dont take the belgaum-Amboli Ghat-Sawantwadi-Mapusa-Panjim road. I was unfortunate enough to take that road and my gawd i was scared out of my wits ( thought i wont make it back alive-its that bad). We traveled through solapur, gadag etc...reached belgaum at 5pm and stopped for some snacks and took off at 530pm and hit the amboli ghat road at 6pm and we took 4 hours to traverse 22 kms....never seen roads like that in my life and hope wont see again ever ( 1-2 feet deep potholes, mountainous speed breakers due to rain ) and to make things worse, it was raining continously and foggy condition....scared that due to such trecheourous roads our car axle may break down..but hail honda city..we came out of that alive and no damage to car..as soon as we crossed that by 10pm....we faced another difficulty on sawantwadi ghats....complete fog..cannot see even 1 feet ahead...in short, those 6-7 hours ( belgaum-sawantwadi) was the most nightmarish driving experience of my entire life
So to summarize, in this rainy season JUST DONT TAKE THE AMBOLI GHAT...on the way back..we took panjim-mumbai highway..and took a bypass and got onto the hyd highway..dont remember which route as we continously asked our way out of that place...heheheh...
take care and drive safe !!!! |