14th December 2007, 22:02
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14th December 2007, 22:08
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14th December 2007, 22:14
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| BHPian | Salem route has four-laning work going on on NH-7 and there are few patches which are not very good. But, overall it's a decent drive. Thoppur-Mecheri-Bhavani road surface is good, though roads are narrower. You can get pretty bad truck traffic on this road and you may get stuck sometime. During our trip in late Oct/07 we had tough time passing trucks on this route. Regards Rex Quote:
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15th December 2007, 13:47
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17th December 2007, 16:02
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17th December 2007, 18:07
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| Senior - BHPian  | How long does it take to reach Cumbum from Bang? I wanted to go but afraid if that would be tooo long  I guess it is theni and then cumbum. Right? Quote:
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17th December 2007, 22:47
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sorry for the late reply, the entry to plkd from walayar is the one that is bad. plkd-tcr-ekm is ok. | |
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18th December 2007, 09:31
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| BHPian | A week back we did a Kodai trip and we could hit Ganguvarapatti (Kodai turn point on Cumbum-Theni route from Dindigul) in 7.5 hrs. Kambam is around 80 kms from Ganguvarapatti. You can take a rough estimate of 3 hours for this, if not more. Yes. It's Theni first and them Kambam. Regards Rex Quote:
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18th December 2007, 09:36
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| BHPian | Gundalpet-Bandipur is the stretch which is bad. But, manageable. Bandipur to outskirts of Gudalur is excellent road. In and around Gudalur the roads are worse. Around 10 kms. That too is manageable. When you've your home in your head and heart, you can drive even through hell If you need to go down to central or south Kerala, taking S. Battery route will be a waste of time and effort. We did that once and decided to never do it again. Regards Rex Quote:
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18th December 2007, 09:40
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| BHPian | Take Trichur-Nilambur-Gudalur-Mysore-Bangalore route. We generally do this route from Cochin to Bangalore in approx 10-11 hrs with stops for B/F, Lunch, misc stops, etc. Regards Rex Quote:
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18th December 2007, 10:48
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Even i used to take this route only. Itz been six months since i travelled.And road from bandipur to gudallur was kind of ok except for some bad stretches around gudallur.But i was pretty sure that monsoon would have effected this roads badly. I planned to take the other route only because i love my car too much.But happy to know that the gudallur strtch is okay now. | |
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18th December 2007, 10:58
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25th December 2007, 14:10
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26th December 2007, 12:56
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| BHPian  | leaving on 28th to palakkad guys im leaving on the 28th to palakkad. any improvement on the road conditions. my ride in an opel corsa sail and the last time (one month ago) i drove to kerala, I had to get my alignment and balancing done, my A/C stopped working for some strange reason and my rear alpine coax slipped out of its 'twist & lock' position and the system began to give trouble on the way. Blame it all on bad roads!!! I want to be sure before i travel this time. If anyone have driven recently, please give me some valuable feedback Thanks |
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26th December 2007, 14:25
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| BHPian | I would suggest to avoid Dharmapuri-Salem/Mettur-Coimbatore stretch, if possible. Try out Chamarajnagar-Sathy-Coimbatore route. The route is given in detail in few threads on this forum. You can even try Mysore-Gudalore-Nilambur-Palakkad. Much better option. Regards Rex Quote:
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