By : Aditya 82,910 views Comments : 320 
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...
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By : Nandan Jha 72,718 views Comments : 229 
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 ...
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By : Karthik 72,379 views Comments : 74 
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 ...
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By : Nandan Jha 68,336 views Comments : 63 
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...
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By : Karthik 65,905 views Comments : 50 
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 ...
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By : Nandan Jha 48,227 views Comments : 199 
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...
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By : Sahil Sethi 45,024 views Comments : 35 
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...
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By : Nandan Jha 44,506 views Comments : 58 
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...
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By : Nandan Jha 32,394 views Comments : 137 
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...
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By : Aditya 31,345 views Comments : 41 
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...
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By : Vishal Rathod 29,801 views Comments : 197 
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 ...
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By : Aditya 25,622 views Comments : 25 
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 ...
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By : Sahil Sethi 24,798 views Comments : 61 
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...
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By : Patrick 23,710 views Comments : 14 
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.
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By : Aditya 22,245 views Comments : 16 
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...
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By : Sahil Sethi 21,172 views Comments : 50 
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...
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By : Nandan Jha 21,092 views Comments : 13 
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...
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By : Sahil Sethi 20,985 views Comments : 35 
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...
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By : sudhir 20,921 views Comments : 30 
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...
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By : AJ 20,783 views Comments : 53 
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 ...
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By : Nandan Jha 19,744 views Comments : 20 
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...
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By : Shekhar Walter 19,112 views Comments : 37 
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...
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By : hiteshbuch 18,909 views Comments : 30 
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...
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By : Mahesh Semwal 18,691 views Comments : 26 
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...
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By : Nandan Jha 18,603 views Comments : 25 
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...
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