I am basically from Lucknow and live in Noida. Normally I board a night train to visit Lucknow. We were visiting my parents in Lucknow on new year's weekend and this time decided to drive down because of two reasons. One, we had to pick up some stuff... Read More

Last Saturday (July 15, 2007), I was driving on NH24 as I had some work in Naukuchiatal and thought that I would write a quick Road Review (and about Delhi to Nainital road condition), since there are lots of folks who use this road for going almost ... Read More

Summary : Distance : 340 km (Bangalore to Chennai by road) Time : anywhere between 4.5 and 5 hr (using the formula time=distance/speed) Ideal speed : 100-110 (I cud maintain 130 in my Fiesta) Best time to start : 5.30 AM if possible (latest by ... Read More

After the successful post on Delhi-Agra-Kanpur-Lucknow road review by Aditya, a strong need was felt on having a review of the other road which connects Delhi to Lucknow. In fact there were so many comment on Aditya's post where people wanted to know... Read More

Finally, after planning for almost 4 years, we made it to Munnar. One thing that I searched for before this trip was a description about the route (fast and best). Though I found the information in bits and pieces, it was not a holistic one. This is ... Read More

My intention behind writing road-reviews have been to provide necessary information to fellow travelers (read drivers) who wish to undertake that journey. With that thought, probably New Delhi to Patna by road, doesn't make the cut, since not many wo... Read More

This plan all started with a birthday treat.  It was my friend's birthday, and surely we were all happy, hoping that we will surely get a treat.  Every time, it was the same old boring story going in a hotel and just a dinner.  But this time, we w... Read More

Ranthambore seemed far, three years back. After our attempt at Delhi-Jaisalmer in end-2007 followed by Delhi-Allahabad in mid-2008 and finally polishing 2008 by Delhi-Khajuraho (till Jhansi and then to Khajuraho), it didn't seem that far. "Ab dilli d... Read More

Its not very common for me to not rush my road-reviews. Yeah thats two nots, read again. Its not very common for me to not rush my road-reviews. But as you grow up (and old) you sort of start to mellow down. In my case I would still blame on office-w... Read More

Day 7 : Goa - Pune Cavelossim - Margaon - Ponda - Londa - Khanapur - Belgaum - Kolhapur - Satara - Pune We started back on Day 7 i.e. 15th of August. We were heading for Pune according to our plan and took a different route for the way back. We... Read More

SOMNATH - DWARKA JOURNEY    Here in this post , I will show you some places which definately not many people must have seen for sure. Jay Somnath.......................... 4th January 2011 :- It was a very sad time for me as I was ... Read More

Background: This plan also came into existence during discussions with Nandan. We met one evening after his road trip to his native place (Delhi - Patna - Delhi) and were discussing longer trips when the idea of Delhi-Goa came up. Nothing much was ... Read More

Day2 - Ludhiana To Wagah Border 1st March '2010. Our Plan was to leave for Amritsar early morning as it was Holi that day. But because of late night roaming around in Ludhiana the previous night , we woke up late the next morning. We did our break... Read More

My summer trip to Nainital and then to Corbett started from Lucknow, the place where I live. I initially thought of writing all of this in one long story but someone suggested that it might be better to separate stories, it might be easier to read. ... Read More

Day 3 : Vadodara - Panvel (Mumbai) Vadodara - Bharuch - Surat - Valsad -Manor - Panvel (Mumbai) Till this point of our trip, weather was on our side but on the morning of Day 3 things started chnaging. When we left Vadodara, it was raining but... Read More

I came back just couple of days before and I am still dreaming how those four beautiful days passed in Himachal Pradesh.It had been few months that I had done a road trip. So It was time to hit the road again. But I was really being superstitious whe... Read More

The joke of the month is, by fellow Ghumakkar Srijan , that I do not get train tickets. The Indian Railways ticket reservation software refuses to let me in. And I am probably one of the few people after MKG who seem to have been thrown out of the gr... Read More

As I am from Delhi , whenever I get time I always visit Chandni Chowk area not for enjoyment just for doing the Darshan in Gurudwara. It really relaxes me and makes me feel rejuvinated. However , from the last six months I had not visited the Sis Gan... Read More

A dream fulfilled. This happened to be a return journey having completed the Ashtvinayak trip while driving from Bangalore to Mumbai ( it’s another story) and my family was geared up for it. We started off from Navi Mumbai at 12 noon and took th... Read More

Had taken the Delhi-Hyd road trip around one and a half years back. Sorry guys for writing this article so late....but then better late than never. The total road distance between Delhi-Hyd comes out to be around 1520 kms. We covered the entire ... Read More

It was past 3 PM when we were done with our lunch at Jhansi and we gathered ourselves for the last and final leg of our journey towards Khajuraho. Hindi is the primary language of this region and we had no difficulty in getting directions and in a wh... Read More

Let me first tell all the readers that I got the motivation to write this after reading through many of the posts at ghummakar. Your stories truely inspired me to pen down this incredible journey which I went through, where one thing led to another a... Read More

I have always wanted to drive long distances rather than be driven, flown or put on a train. On the two occasions that I visited the  USA I drove cross country to my heart's content. But here in India the condition of the  Highways was a big p... Read More

Krishna said in Bhagavat-Gita: "Amongst rivers I am Ganges" and all over the world you will hardly find a river more worshiped and more sacred than Ganges. In the Morning we checked out from Hotel Shivalik – Dharali & left for G... Read More

Last weekend, I drove to Corbett and I discovered few new things and thought that a quick road review would benefit fellow ghumakkars. Delhi - Ramnagar (Corbett is just a little beyond Ramnagar) can be divided into following stretches. 1. Del... Read More