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21st November 2023, 23:39 | #1 |
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| Maruti Zen road-trip | Exploring the Kunkeshwar temple village Kunkeshwar is a village located in the Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra, India. It is home to Kunkeshwar Temple, which is dedicated to lord Shiva. A family trip had been due for a long time, and as the Diwali vacations rolled around, it was the perfect time to visit the holy temple. #1 - Planning the Route: As the festive season had started, we were in our native town, Kolhapur, to celebrate Diwali along with the family. Finally after Bhaidooj, it was time to leave. Started the journey after enjoying a delicious thali at Parakh. The route was planned while finishing the meal, and this is how it goes:
We started our journey from Kolhapur at 1pm after filling up the Bharat Petroleum, Fulewadi. A quick car checkup along with washer fluid, tyre air pressure and brake oil topup was completed and we were good to go. Due to peak traffic hours and poor road conditions, it took longer than expected to reach our first checkpoint. Diversions and road works at some points made things worse. However, soon after, greenery took over and calmed down the frustration. We had a quick stop at Gaganbawada and refreshed ourselves with Kokam Juice. The views once you enter ghat section while going downhill are breathtaking! Mountains and Forest enguled in clouds are heaven for the eyes. The bad roads, however, still persist. One needs to be careful as the ghat has a steep slope and sharp curves, hence do check your brakes and brake fluid before starting. The journey from Kharepatan to Nandgaon brings a smile to your face as you enter NH66 and find approximately no traffic, leading to complete flooring. The road after turning from Nandgaon onto Devgad-Nipani highway is single laned, but is surrounded by pure greenery and a sweet, chill weather. You soon start loosing greenery as you start approching Konkan region, but the road conditions do not disappoint you, especially the roads nearby Valivande feel as if it were a set from a movie. Excitement starts to creep in at Lingdal Titha, where you hop onto Kunkeshwar road. The condition of roads here detoriate at some points. If you notice, you will find good roads where you have Maharashtra Tourism boards. Partiality? Anyways, you will notice some good houses and might envy the lifestyle of the people living there [honestly, I did]. Finally, you will start noticing greenery again. This is the point where you have reached Kunkeshwar! #3 - Exploring the Konkan:
#4 - Returning to Pune: We were considering a stay at Ganpatipule. However, it was ruled out due to Mismatched schedules. Now, these are the available routes to Pune:
We chose the second one. The route we chose again passed through lush greenery. The small, single laned roads covered with big, green trees on this route make every trip a trip to remember. Beautiful weather, clean air and nature: what more peace does a human need? Away from all hustle-bustle, lies such lifestyle where you have no stress, no tensions, nothing, just pure feeling of fullfilment. A proper destination for residence after retirement, I would say. Continuing on Rajapur-Padve road till Dongar Phata, everything is cool and calm till you take a left on NH66, a road to floor your car again. Everything was in fast-forward motion till a diversion for roadworks merged both the sides. Continued till Ooni to take a right on Panchal-Kolhapur road. Made a quick-stop at HP Petrol Pump, Bagavewadi to refuel and continued towards Anuskura ghat. Noticed that windshield was covered in a lot of dust. I always have a Waxpol Glass cleaner and a Microfiber cloth. This was the perfect time to use it to ensure clearest visibility possible. The roads till now were good with less to no bad patches. During the full journey, this was the only patch where everyone in the car were thrilled and afraid at the same time. The sharp corners and steep incline is enough to make any driver anxious. However, if you ask me to describe the views from the ghat in two words, I'd say: Pure Heaven. Again, made a quick stop after the Anuskura ghat for Tea. Continued straight towards Malkapur only to get stuck in traffic. A glance of fellow MH09 vehicles was good enough to lighten up my mood. Continued forwards straight towards Karad via Kokrud, only to make a big mistake of exiting NH166 without reaching Karad. Took a left to save 6 minutes and god know where did we go. Thanks to all the technology we have today, we finally made it out through Umbraj. The only good outcome of this mistake was, we were able to skip Karad's traffic and the Tasawade toll. For dinner, we made a stop at Shivram Dhaba on NH48 after Kashil. Finally, we reached home after driving for more 100 minutes. #5 - Notes and Conclusion:
Thank you for reading, hope you had a nice time. I will appreciate if you share your opinions as well as suggest me if I am wrong somewhere. With this, my first long post on TeamBHP comes to an end. Cheers! |
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