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Originally Posted by dsreddy  On the way back to Hyderabad we wanted to try a different route. We were unaware of road conditions of ankola-hubli-hospet-rayachur but decided to take a risk. We started from Palolem in the afternoon, thoroughly enjoyed NH17 drive till Ankola. We had to pay 600rs at Karnataka border near Karwar for carrying port wine battles, we felt bad for a moment because of this incident. We stopped at Rabindranath tagore bridge near Karwar, this is the place where Kali river meets arabian sea. Had lunch at Kamat hotel near Ankola, the food really fantastic. |
Hi dsreddy,
don't loose heart man, u r not the only one to pay the hafta at the k'taka border. Me too travelled on the same route on 19th jan and paid 200 rs. - 100 to the guys sitting with a table in the checkpost with a register where u have to enter ur vehicle details, and another 100 to the guy who came to check my car and claimed to be from excise deptt. BTW how many bottles were u carrying? and did they actually open up ur luggages and checked or justed asked u?
May be, by mutual exchange of information we can find out the rate of the hafta per bottle
. I was carrying 6 bottles and honestly told him the true figure when he asked me "bottles kitne hai saab?" and after that when he asked "kuch to deke jao" i simply handed over a 100 note and he gave a nice smile and went off. I would like to know from other members from k'taka whether they also had faced the similar treat?
What abt the maharastra - goa border? Those members who have come back via maharashtra route, please let us know whether there is similar checking in the maratha-goa border also.
thanx
max.