Driving from Bangalore to Panvel and back via two different routes

The onward journey took 12 hrs and 10 mins of driving and the return journey involved over 14 hours of driving spread out over 2 days.

BHPian yogishkamath recently shared this with other enthusiasts:

I drove from Marathahalli to Panvel on Saturday with my family - through the Belagavi route and back on Sunday/Monday through the Pandharpur route.

The onward journey took 12 hours and 10 minutes of driving (plus 2 hours of stops for food and fuel) and the return journey involved over 14 hours of driving spread out over 2 days with an overnight stay at Pandharpur. I was the sole driver.

Onward journey:

Started from home at 3.30, reached Tumkur at 4:40, Chitradurga at 6:00, refueled a few km before Hubballi at 7:50 and reached Belagavi at around 9:00.

Progress was comparatively slower post-Belagavi. We stopped for breakfast at around 9:55 just a few km short of Nipani, resumed driving an hour later and reached Kolhapur at 11:30 or thereabouts. We were on track to reach the Pune-Mumbai expressway at around 15:20. Therefore, we decided to have lunch at Vithal Kamat's a few km before the beginning of the expressway and ended up getting to it about 55 minutes later at 16:15. The destination was reached at 17:40.

Return journey:

We started at 14:35 on Sunday and reached the temple at Pandharpur just before 20:00. On Monday, we started from Pandharpur at around 6:00, reached the Vijayapura bypass around 7:50, (through NH561A), refueled at 8:45, stopped for breakfast about 50 km before Hospet at around 9:25. Resuming at 10:05, we were able to get to Chitradurga at around 11:55 and Tumkur at 13:15. The last 80 odd km to Marathahalli took 2 hours 15 minutes and we got home only at 15:30.

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