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Hyderabad to Gandikota and back in my Jeep Compass

25th March 2025, 13:08 by Ananth Iyer

As usual Compass is a joy to drive in empty roads, even in higher speeds and it has enough juice to go even more.

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Weekend trip to Gandikota (The Indian Grand Canyon).

Planned for a weekend trip from Hyderabad to Gandikota. I had seen some instagram reels and liked the scenic views of Gandikota.

We started on Saturday morning at 08:00 AM, we took the below route

ORR-Shadnagar-Kurnool-Gandikota

ORR speed limit of 120 kmph, and then NH44 and NH40, all fantastic roads. I was easily doing 100 to 120 without effort. No traffic on Saturday, I was also able to touch 150 speeds for some time due to excellent roads and zero traffic. Reached Gandikota view point at 4:00 PM.

What a fantastic scenic view. You have to see it to feel it, words cannot describe it. I will let the photos do the talking. Next day went to Belum Caves.

Other places to visit nearby, Yaganti temple and on way back you can visit Gadwal Jogulamba temple (5th Shakthi peet). You can stay at the view point by renting tent houses and have nice bonfire at night, do some star gazing. We did not opt for it as the condition of the tents was not good and many others were drinking there. Something the government officials should look i to. Overall we didn't feel safe to stay at night.

You can stay at resorts nearby, many available there. We stayed at Royal County which was decent place, but expensive.

Overall 1000+ kms of drive in 2 days. As usual Compass is a joy to drive in empty roads, even in higher speeds and it has enough juice to go even more. Compass was stable like an eagle. Only issue I faced was I ran out of windshield water fluid (Compass has a 4 liters washer fluid tank ).

Accommodation was some 4,700 bucks booked via Agoda. Tolls around 1500, food was 3,800 and 6,500 for diesel and other miscellaneous shopping. Overall we enjoyed a lot, highly recommended trip if you stay in nearby states.