Me and my wife did Hyderabad-Goa-Hyderabad in 2008. We departed Hyderabad 4 pm on a working day, the 11th Jan 08 and arrived Goa via Western Ghats at 9 am next day: non stop. and we took the Road less traveled.
Pictures of the road less travelled.....
Picasa Web Albums - Tirthankar - Hyderabad-Goa...
Though the suggested route for Hyderabad to Goa was: HYD-SOLAPUR-KOLHAPUR-AMBOLI-SAVANTWADI-PANAJI, But as and every time we lost track at somewhere near HINDALCO Plotted Housing on NH4 at Belgaum and took eventually took the ghat roads (I still don't know where it is) all the way till Mapusa.
The ghat roads were all about steep rocky terrain, red mud, 40 degree descents and 4000 rpm engine braking.
Stayed in Goa for 2 nights and the return was a more relaxed one (also non stop) and I was dozing off the wheel getting hallucinations of whatever I could pore in the dead of the night- esp trees walking and their branches turning into fort walls.
The best thing about doze-driving is that I have developed a braking system which works like this.... whenever I am close to fall asleep the foot muscles relax and accelerator gets let off and the car slows down and I brake a bit in reflex which gives me a jerk and am back from the momentary hibernation.
Did anyone take the Ghat roads to Goa which I did recently?