Hi All ! It may sound crazy but we wanted to explore India by car. It all started with just a spark saying why not ? We wanted to travel across East India. (We have already travelled by car up to Pune, most of Tamilnadu, Karnataka and Kerala.) So this time we selected West Bengal.
Planned for 10 days but extended up to 12 days. I checked with my parents who are in their 70’s and believe it or not they were really excited of the idea.(My father used to travel from Chennai to Neyveli by Scooter in those days). So no doubt of him enjoying this trip. List started getting ready and I put things in place. Got service done for my car.
Packed dresses for us two, winter clothes for Darjelling, Umbrellas, medicines etc.,My parents came to Chennai the next day itself and yes we made an outline plan.
Day 1 : 5th June, 2019 -Km reset to 0
Started by 7 am from Chennai. Locked Google map on to our Dash Board. Took the Bye-pass road via puzal, Red hills, Karanodai reached Andra Border. Our plan was to reach Visakapattnam for night stay. I packed idli with podi for breakfast and dinner. Packed curd rice for lunch . ( My parents are old and thought may be one day can avoid outside food).It was very helpful as we could not find any good hotels on our route.
Gudur, Nellore, Kavali, Ongole, Guntur, Vijayawada, Eluru, Rajamudry. We had to travel through Vijayawada town and could see the town was very well maintained with lots of trees and neatly arranged garden along the route. The trees were thematically
painted and huge sculptures were made out of waste material along t
he pathways. It was 7 pm when we reached Rajamudry and decided to break for the night. The roads were good except few diversions. Big Hanuman(Anjaneyar) statues along the route welcomed us. Few hundreds were paid for Toll plazas .For every 2 hours break was required to refresh ourselves.
We did not book any hotels as we were not sure about our destinations for each day. Planned to book then and there. Make my Trip, Goibibo, Agoda came handy. Checked in a hotel in Rajamudry by 8 pm. It is a decent small town in the banks of Godavari in East Godavari District with quite a number of hotels to suit everyone. Almost everything is available in the bazaar. Good tea shops (Tea time, Tea tree etc., where we can get snacks and tea(Rs.10)).The hotel we checked in was good for a night stay. Thanks to Make my trip ! Clean and neat bed and bathrooms. What else do we need !
Total Kms. Travelled : 655 Kms
Total Toll paid : Rs. 865.00
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