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| The journey back We started from the Konkani Hut parking lot, drove a km to reach the main entry of MTDC hotel. The temple parking is just outside the hotel, we decided park inside the hotel compound instead. A small walk lead us to the Ganapati temple. It is again a swayambhu temple, could see the bigraha a stone with three lumps, which people imagined as Ganesha. The temple complex is very well maintained, neat and clean.      We bought laddu's (Rs 20 for a pack of 4). While coming out, I could see the room where the laddu's are prepared.   After little rest and water/bio-breaks, we finally departed from G'pule at 11:00 am. As verified by the resort manager for Kolhapur, I took the road to Nevali Phata, then right turn on NH17, then left turn at Pali on NH204 to Kolhapur. However after going through other threads in tbhp it would have been better to take the internal road till Ratnagiri (road in some parts run parallel to sea), and then taking the NH204 (a portion of NH 204 is common with NH17) from there. This route might be little slower but would have been worth it. We saw the turn but ignored it. So we went straight ahead to Nevali phata, and half an hour, our roads parted - my cousins took left on NH17 to head towards Pune, and we right for Bangalore. After crossing hatkhamba we were on lookout for Pali, immediately after Pali we got the diversion for Kolhapur (NH204). NH204 is a 2 lane undivided highway with either ghat sections or tree lined sections. Ghat section  View of the valley  Faithful companion  Treelined section  I was feeling a little sleepy, so took a short break of 5 minutes, drank water, splashed some on the face and continued refresh. Reached Kolhapur in 3 hours, took 15-20 minute to cross the entire city, asking in each major cross-section direction for NH4, to reach the NH4. A circle in Kolhapur  We filled up the fuel here (a rupee cheaper compared to Namma Karnataka), and then had food in Jai Hind Delux Dhaba. Around 10 km from Kolhapur exit in NH4, a two storied building with lots of trucks parked in the front. Amazing quality food and total VFM - 5 tandoori rotis, 1 dal fry, 1 egg bhurji, 1 curd and 2 soft drinks costed us Rs 86/-. By the time, we finished our lunch and started again it was 3:00 pm. And it was sure we are going to reach home earliest by midnight. We crossed Belgaum (97 km) in one hour, and was aiming for Hubli in another hour (103 km) as we have done the same on onward journey. But this time it took 1 hour 10 min due to denser traffic between Dharwar and Hubli. We passed by the side of the new high court in Dharwad  And spotted some wildlife on the road  It also started raining before Haveri, slowing us even more.  Continued as far as possible in the day light, and stopped only when it became dark for a tea break. Stopped at Dobbspet Kamat for the dinner. Reached Bangalore (sighting Yeshwantpur Metro) at the stroke of midnight and reached home at 12:30. Left most of the luggages in the car and carried ourselves to home somehow, and crashed. Last edited by arindamray : 5th April 2009 at 00:32. |
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