Simplifying Trips KOTA-SHIVPURI-JHANSI-FATEHPUR-ALLAHABAD

Hello all and thank you for reading and sharing my previous blogs.
In this blog I will share my experience from kota to allahabad.

Day 2  02/04/2016
After having a sound sleep and series of conversation with uncle, aunt and cousin brother the previous day till 1'o clock, it was not possible for us to start the next leg of our journey early. We woke up at 7:30 am and realized that we are quite late enough to depart. We did all our morning course and final meetings with grandpa, grandma, uncles, aunts & cousin and left at 9:00 am.This day we had to reach to allahabad any how to keep the schedule as planned. It was a journey of about 720 kms and the thought of crossing madhya pradesh was a concern as we all had a perception that roads in MP are not that good. The road till shivpuri was of RCC which is around 235 kms from kota. All though the RCC roads were not that great as it was from chittorgarh and had potholes and patch work. But we were able to cross that patch well within 3 hrs. One thing which has to be said about the roads in MP that the newly constructed roads were a treat to drive on. Not a single pothole and patch work you will find on these roads and one can easily cruise on whatever speed they are comfortable with. I was able to reach 140 kmph and other thing was you can easily maintain that speed for as long as you want. The ghat section before shivpuri is another treat to drive through. All though the surrounding greenery was not that green enough but still it was good scenery to look at.

The next stop decided was at Jhansi for our lunch, it was 12:15 pm the time we crossed shivpuri and jhansi was almost 100 kms from here,Our four legged passenger was also enjoying the hiccup free drive and was comfortably enjoying through the window. The moment you reach the outskirts of jhansi the road condition starts to deteriorate and soon you will find yourself among potholes. Jhansi bypass was under construction and we had to cross through the city which was cramped. We halted at a small dhaba for our and our pet's lunch and started after 50 mins of break. It was 2:45 pm and still allahabad was quite distant from this place. We got fuel tank full and started again. My all passengers were taking small naps in between and lost their nap the moment we entered the state limits of UTTAR PRADESH. How can one take a sound sleep on these kind of roads, full of potholes and crests -troughs and patchwork. Allahabad was still 350 kms and we had thought when we will be reaching our destination if the road conditions would be like this. JHANSI to ORAI was really a though patch to cover. From no where it seems to be a national highway, but yes it was NH-2. From bhognipur we had to merge onto SH-46 which will take us to fathepur and from there we will be merging onto AH-1. The State highway was just a two lane road but had light traffic which somewhat made easy us to cruise,as after failing to cover the distance on NH-2 in that time we had some expectation from UP government on which they stood sound. It was 5'o clock and we merged onto AH-1. The moment you merge on Asian Highway-1 you had a smile on your face and a feeling of relaxation and you know the kilometers will be less now to cover on a such a fantastic road. Our four legged passenger was now relaxed and slept so comfortably as if it is sleeping in its house.

It was 6:45 pm and started to get dark, our destination was still 50 kms and we decided to look for some hotel on the highway itself as going into the allahabad city and searching for a hotel there which would our pet to accompany with us would be mammoth task. Luckily we found one which was 30 kms short of allahabad and the owner also allowed our pet to check in with us. It was 7:30 pm and we ended our journey for that day. We had enough time to get relaxed for the next day drive.

It was the second leg of the journey.

Third and the last leg of this journey coming soon.

Till then enjoy reading and keep sharing.   

Simplifying Trips:- RAJKOT-GANDHINAGAR-UDAIPUR-CHITTORGARH-KOTA

Hi to all the readers out there, as promised in my last post about my upcoming blog on a trip from Rajkot to Bokaro. I am here with my first day of the journey from rajkot to kota.

Day-1  01/04/2016
 It was my father's birthday, our household goods was already departed for bokaro as my father got promoted and was posted to the new place. We were left only with our luggage and was meant to leave rajkot on 1st april. The distance from rajkot to bokaro was around 2200 kms as said by the google maps and we were ready to roll out on the roads. The reason(s) we opted to cover that distance by road was because of our 5 yr old labrador and moreover we all in the family loves to travel by road ;).
As planned we got up early at 5 in the morning, it was a pleasant morning with breeze blowing and a perfect climate to drive. We tried to keep as much low luggage as possible with ourselves but in the end it resulted in a surplus. It took around 45 mins to properly adjust the luggage in our car, and by the time we could have left it was already 7.15 am and the sun was clearly to be seen heading upwards in the sky. We all knew we would today be taking more time to cover the distance to kota as we usually take coz now we had a four legged  passenger with us. As in my previous blogs i have mentioned about the road conditions of gujarat so it was treat to drive on these kind of roads, amazing roads and amazing driving experience as well, its like you are running a knife on butter.
I somehow managed to hit the speedometer at 120 kmph as my dog was a bit acclimatized to the car condition and was behaving normal. We did managed to cover 140 kms in 1 hr and 30 mins and had our breakfast at Limbdi. It was a stop of approx 45 mins as we had get our pet freshen up as well and it was a totally new place, it took some time to get relieved and that was the main reason why we all were concerned.We all started again and reached ahmedabad by-pass by 10.30 am. As it was a working day we encountered with some heavy traffic but the good part was it was moving one.We managed to cross gandhinagar by 11.30 pm and the target was set to have lunch at udaipur.

The roads were a pleasure to drive and in some patches i was able to touch 140 kmph. It was again the same route on which i had travelled 6-7 times and was familiar with the roads and rough patches. We reached udaipur by 1:45 pm after we found traffic jam while reaching udaipur as one truck had met an accident and had crossed the barricade but after all we were well in time and had our lunch there. We departed from udaipur at 3:00 pm and was set to reach Kota before the sun sets. The roads were good but not that great on which we had traveled while we were in gujarat. We had our evening tea after reaching chittorgarh. And also it was quite a long time for our four legged passenger to get freshen up.

It was 4:45 pm by the clock and the sun has started to descend into the horizon, we got back in our places and rev upped the engine hard. From Chittorgarh the roads are again a treat to drive, Complete RCC roads and you will find very low traffic. We found one honda Jazz with whom it was an un said competition and in all this mashup all we achieved was that we managed to cover 100 kms in 55 mins. It was getting dark and the jazz was now no where to be seen.It was 6.30 pm and kota was 45 kms left. It was the time to switch on the head-lights and we could see the lights of kota from that distance. You always feel great when you are about to reach the place where you had spend the most of your summer vacations during the school days. I was about to meet my grandparents, uncle, aunt and cousin and the newly born niece.
We reached at our destination by 7.15 pm where my cousin has already planned for a surprise party as its was my father and aunt's birthday. We had our dinner and chit-chatted uptill 11.00 pm and at last our four legged member also got a place where it could relax completely.

Do read the next blog on our journey from kota to allahabad, which was completely a new route to discover.
Enjoy reading and keep sharing.