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Hi Friends,
I love driving so much that it now becomes my passion; earlier driven myself to many different destinations, but always dreamt of driving from Delhi to Pune one day, there are so many logs on internet which inspired me a lot.
All this happen suddenly so no planning or anything just a mad-mad run, but I enjoyed all this madness, It all started with the birthday of my very special friend (now my wife ) on 25th of December 2008, she was posted in Pune at that time, I undertook this journey to give her a surprise and fulfill my long term dream of long drive, I had taken this lifetime decision on 24th morning itself and decided to go to Pune by my car to give her a surprise. I immediately applied for 4 days leave from 26th to 29th and decided to reach Pune at any cost by 25th December.
Some stats for you guys:
Travel dates: 24 Dec 2008 to 30 Dec 2008
Vehicle: Wagon R Lxi June 2007 Model
Start time: 3:00PM on 24 Dec 2008
End time: 8:30PM on 30 Dec 2008
Start destination: Delhi
End destination: Delhi
Total distance travelled:3547 KM (Including some local travel in and around Pune)
Damages: Minor accident near Jaipur while returning due to heavy fog
Base route: Delhi-Jaipur-Udaipur-Ahemdabad-Surat-Mumbai-Pune
My preparations:
Reached my home around 1:00 PM do my packing till 2:00 PM taken a shower and got ready for my 25 hrs solo long drive. I stocked some dry fruits; snacks with me to keep me awaken all night along with my regular medicines and couple of water bottles.
My combined log of day5 and day6:
Started from Delhi around 2:00PM in noon and reached Pune by 4:00PM next day, it was quite a terrific journey for me, I was not able to prepare any detailed log for this side of my journey due to over excitement and excess concentration on my set target…to reach Pune by tomorrow and successfully made It.
Now I understand why a traveler often not able to write logs so easily as it was a very tough ask from them, log require lots of effort and pain.
Please find below my day5 & day6 details this was only I am able to compile till date and would like to share my experience with you guys:
Start time: 7:30AM
End time: 8:30PM
Total time: 25Hrs
Total KM: 1550KM (approx)
Time loss: one hour due to heavy fog on 190 Km stretch after Jaipur
Start destination: Nigdi (Chinchwad) Pune.
End destination: South-West Delhi.
Total toll tax paid till Delhi: Rs. 850(approx)
I went to bed early last night to start my journey early morning but able to wake up by 6:00AM only after a deep and long sleep and started my journey towards Delhi by 7:30 AM. This time I decided to take some pics but manage to take couple of shots only, also note down some log details to post some useful information for future travelers.
First stop
First stop was at Indian oil petrol pump on Dehuroad which is located before toll plaza got tank full and paid Rs 1500; time was around 8:40AM, started my journey again takes left turn after couple of minutes to join Mumbai Pune express highway, after few kms run got another toll plaza showed them my previous toll plaza slip and paid Rs.140 toll tax, after using this amazing road I felt that these tolls are worth every single penny roads are now world class, specially Delhi- Pune route amazing roads I must say. On express highway each passing car will remind you that you are traveling in India speed was above limits but still peoples are overtaking each other madly, looking for the first board towards Thane after taking right entered in Taloja Industrial area, I kept moving straight and takes left for Mumbra toll plaza followed the straight road till another toll plaza on Agra road from here takes left, after going few Kms straight takes right and reached under the first flyover, now I was on Ghodbunder road here I followed the straight road and after the toll plaza made a halt at fountain hotel on my left.
Second stop (For breakfast at fountain hotel)
Time: 10AM
Total hours: 2.5Hrs
Total distance travelled: 143Km
Average speed: 57.2 Kmph (bad roads near Panvel)
Now I had to move right towards Surat on NH8 road was not good till Surat as there are numerous flyovers construction and road widening work was going but I do hope that once they are completed you will definitely find roads from Delhi to Mumbai very inviting, these ongoing construction work sucks both your energy and time and they both are very precious on nonstop drives. I thought I had made a good decision by starting early in the morning as I am able to reach Delhi next day by 8:00am and resume my office, at one point I thought starting early by 5:00am in the morning then I thought It is better to complete my sleep as I have to drive whole night, my suggestion to future traveler is that if you are planning to halt in night then start early in the morning and reach Udaipur by evening after completing around 900km of your journey and take rest for day or two to start early next morning for Delhi and vice versa.
Coming back to my journey I keep moving straight and followed the road signs embossed with Surat then Ahmedabad and so on these sign boards played an Important role in journey I just followed them and completed my trip, if you are travelling on new routes to reach your destination, game rule is simple just write down the parent route and follow it, In my case It was Pune-Mumbai-Surat-Ahmedabad-Udiapur-Jaipur-Delhi same was stamped inside my head. Surprisingly I don’t need to ask for the directions this time after following above rule.
In this journey I made a point to stop at petrol pumps after every 150-200Kms or say whenever my fuel needle came to half I started looking for fuel stations on my left for tank up. I think there are two benefits of this one you are able to ease yourself by attending your nature calls (as I drink lots of water to keep me awaken for so long) second you are able to confirm the route from filling guy at station, one more thing friends remember to keep water bottles along with some dry fruits, light snacks etc to meet any urgent requirement of your stomach also this will keep you busy as you are alone.
Now again coming back to my log, I was moving towards Surat from fountain hotel, fuel needle of my car is now hovering around half way mark for quite some time now, time for next pit stop.
Third stop
Time: 1:00PM
Total hours: 5.5Hrs
Total distance travelled from Pune: 388Km
Distance from previous stop: 245Km
Average speed from Pune: 70.54Kmph
Average speed from previous point: 81.66Kmph
I can't believe on the above figures at first glance they are amazing as so much construction work was going on but luckily few jams below the under construction flyovers and top of that 90% of roads are having two way traffic plying on single road but I must say roads are quite wide which enables you to overtake maximum vehicles, sometimes while overtaking sandwich like situation arises but I somehow managed them hehehe
Now I was zipping fast fiercely and made up my mind for night halt in Udaipur after completing 900Km run on day 1, it was enough for me but destiny had some other plans for me.
Fourth stop (for lunch at Mayur hotel)
Time: 2:45PM
Total hours: 7.15 Hrs
Total distance travelled from Pune: 477 Km
Distance from previous stop: 89 Km
Average speed from Pune: 66.71 Kmph
Average speed from previous point: 61.37Kmph
I must say food was very tasty, I stopped here after seeing good numbers of vehicles parked outside (This rule worked here too) It also reminds me that In most cases whenever there is crowd there must be something going on, now I started again keep moving straight please remember we have to move straight as I turned left after seeing a Vadodara signboard but after moving half an Km I realized that I am on wrong path, I enquired at roadside car washing center and hell that guy told me to go back to highway take right turn for Halol and then from there you will reach Udaipur, thank god I followed my inner voice and got myself back on track in no time and keep moving straight there was huge jam on this stretch after passing Narmada Infrastructure Construction Enterprise Limited, entered Bharuch toll plaza paid Rs.15. I was now on Vadodara-Ahmedabad expressway route and paid toll tax of Rs. 69 remember If you reach here means you are on right track, here minimum speed limit for cars are 90KMPH I was moving at good speed after 80 km found an exit on left for Udaipur, you have to be little careful about this exit, as you miss any signboards trouble will start for you so please be extra vigilant.
I was approaching towards Udaipur, started calling different hotels but to my bad luck no room was available due to New Year I also tried at hotels on NH also but all in vain, then I prepared myself for another night long journey OMG!
It is always better to plan things prior to start of any Journey I learnt this lesson hard way, but still there was hope for hotel in my mind, Udaipur is still 300Km away so for next few hours I don’t want to think about this. Now friends it’s time for a pit stop again, my body also need some stretching but It was not paining like Day 2 when I had to apply Moov and on Day3 not able to move my neck properly, but by the grace of god I was enjoying my pain this time.
Contd....
I love driving so much that it now becomes my passion; earlier driven myself to many different destinations, but always dreamt of driving from Delhi to Pune one day, there are so many logs on internet which inspired me a lot.
All this happen suddenly so no planning or anything just a mad-mad run, but I enjoyed all this madness, It all started with the birthday of my very special friend (now my wife ) on 25th of December 2008, she was posted in Pune at that time, I undertook this journey to give her a surprise and fulfill my long term dream of long drive, I had taken this lifetime decision on 24th morning itself and decided to go to Pune by my car to give her a surprise. I immediately applied for 4 days leave from 26th to 29th and decided to reach Pune at any cost by 25th December.
Some stats for you guys:
Travel dates: 24 Dec 2008 to 30 Dec 2008
Vehicle: Wagon R Lxi June 2007 Model
Start time: 3:00PM on 24 Dec 2008
End time: 8:30PM on 30 Dec 2008
Start destination: Delhi
End destination: Delhi
Total distance travelled:3547 KM (Including some local travel in and around Pune)
Damages: Minor accident near Jaipur while returning due to heavy fog
Base route: Delhi-Jaipur-Udaipur-Ahemdabad-Surat-Mumbai-Pune
My preparations:
Reached my home around 1:00 PM do my packing till 2:00 PM taken a shower and got ready for my 25 hrs solo long drive. I stocked some dry fruits; snacks with me to keep me awaken all night along with my regular medicines and couple of water bottles.
My combined log of day5 and day6:
Started from Delhi around 2:00PM in noon and reached Pune by 4:00PM next day, it was quite a terrific journey for me, I was not able to prepare any detailed log for this side of my journey due to over excitement and excess concentration on my set target…to reach Pune by tomorrow and successfully made It.
Now I understand why a traveler often not able to write logs so easily as it was a very tough ask from them, log require lots of effort and pain.
Please find below my day5 & day6 details this was only I am able to compile till date and would like to share my experience with you guys:
Start time: 7:30AM
End time: 8:30PM
Total time: 25Hrs
Total KM: 1550KM (approx)
Time loss: one hour due to heavy fog on 190 Km stretch after Jaipur
Start destination: Nigdi (Chinchwad) Pune.
End destination: South-West Delhi.
Total toll tax paid till Delhi: Rs. 850(approx)
I went to bed early last night to start my journey early morning but able to wake up by 6:00AM only after a deep and long sleep and started my journey towards Delhi by 7:30 AM. This time I decided to take some pics but manage to take couple of shots only, also note down some log details to post some useful information for future travelers.
First stop
First stop was at Indian oil petrol pump on Dehuroad which is located before toll plaza got tank full and paid Rs 1500; time was around 8:40AM, started my journey again takes left turn after couple of minutes to join Mumbai Pune express highway, after few kms run got another toll plaza showed them my previous toll plaza slip and paid Rs.140 toll tax, after using this amazing road I felt that these tolls are worth every single penny roads are now world class, specially Delhi- Pune route amazing roads I must say. On express highway each passing car will remind you that you are traveling in India speed was above limits but still peoples are overtaking each other madly, looking for the first board towards Thane after taking right entered in Taloja Industrial area, I kept moving straight and takes left for Mumbra toll plaza followed the straight road till another toll plaza on Agra road from here takes left, after going few Kms straight takes right and reached under the first flyover, now I was on Ghodbunder road here I followed the straight road and after the toll plaza made a halt at fountain hotel on my left.
Second stop (For breakfast at fountain hotel)
Time: 10AM
Total hours: 2.5Hrs
Total distance travelled: 143Km
Average speed: 57.2 Kmph (bad roads near Panvel)
Now I had to move right towards Surat on NH8 road was not good till Surat as there are numerous flyovers construction and road widening work was going but I do hope that once they are completed you will definitely find roads from Delhi to Mumbai very inviting, these ongoing construction work sucks both your energy and time and they both are very precious on nonstop drives. I thought I had made a good decision by starting early in the morning as I am able to reach Delhi next day by 8:00am and resume my office, at one point I thought starting early by 5:00am in the morning then I thought It is better to complete my sleep as I have to drive whole night, my suggestion to future traveler is that if you are planning to halt in night then start early in the morning and reach Udaipur by evening after completing around 900km of your journey and take rest for day or two to start early next morning for Delhi and vice versa.
Coming back to my journey I keep moving straight and followed the road signs embossed with Surat then Ahmedabad and so on these sign boards played an Important role in journey I just followed them and completed my trip, if you are travelling on new routes to reach your destination, game rule is simple just write down the parent route and follow it, In my case It was Pune-Mumbai-Surat-Ahmedabad-Udiapur-Jaipur-Delhi same was stamped inside my head. Surprisingly I don’t need to ask for the directions this time after following above rule.
In this journey I made a point to stop at petrol pumps after every 150-200Kms or say whenever my fuel needle came to half I started looking for fuel stations on my left for tank up. I think there are two benefits of this one you are able to ease yourself by attending your nature calls (as I drink lots of water to keep me awaken for so long) second you are able to confirm the route from filling guy at station, one more thing friends remember to keep water bottles along with some dry fruits, light snacks etc to meet any urgent requirement of your stomach also this will keep you busy as you are alone.
Now again coming back to my log, I was moving towards Surat from fountain hotel, fuel needle of my car is now hovering around half way mark for quite some time now, time for next pit stop.
Third stop
Time: 1:00PM
Total hours: 5.5Hrs
Total distance travelled from Pune: 388Km
Distance from previous stop: 245Km
Average speed from Pune: 70.54Kmph
Average speed from previous point: 81.66Kmph
I can't believe on the above figures at first glance they are amazing as so much construction work was going on but luckily few jams below the under construction flyovers and top of that 90% of roads are having two way traffic plying on single road but I must say roads are quite wide which enables you to overtake maximum vehicles, sometimes while overtaking sandwich like situation arises but I somehow managed them hehehe
Now I was zipping fast fiercely and made up my mind for night halt in Udaipur after completing 900Km run on day 1, it was enough for me but destiny had some other plans for me.
Fourth stop (for lunch at Mayur hotel)
Time: 2:45PM
Total hours: 7.15 Hrs
Total distance travelled from Pune: 477 Km
Distance from previous stop: 89 Km
Average speed from Pune: 66.71 Kmph
Average speed from previous point: 61.37Kmph
I must say food was very tasty, I stopped here after seeing good numbers of vehicles parked outside (This rule worked here too) It also reminds me that In most cases whenever there is crowd there must be something going on, now I started again keep moving straight please remember we have to move straight as I turned left after seeing a Vadodara signboard but after moving half an Km I realized that I am on wrong path, I enquired at roadside car washing center and hell that guy told me to go back to highway take right turn for Halol and then from there you will reach Udaipur, thank god I followed my inner voice and got myself back on track in no time and keep moving straight there was huge jam on this stretch after passing Narmada Infrastructure Construction Enterprise Limited, entered Bharuch toll plaza paid Rs.15. I was now on Vadodara-Ahmedabad expressway route and paid toll tax of Rs. 69 remember If you reach here means you are on right track, here minimum speed limit for cars are 90KMPH I was moving at good speed after 80 km found an exit on left for Udaipur, you have to be little careful about this exit, as you miss any signboards trouble will start for you so please be extra vigilant.
I was approaching towards Udaipur, started calling different hotels but to my bad luck no room was available due to New Year I also tried at hotels on NH also but all in vain, then I prepared myself for another night long journey OMG!
It is always better to plan things prior to start of any Journey I learnt this lesson hard way, but still there was hope for hotel in my mind, Udaipur is still 300Km away so for next few hours I don’t want to think about this. Now friends it’s time for a pit stop again, my body also need some stretching but It was not paining like Day 2 when I had to apply Moov and on Day3 not able to move my neck properly, but by the grace of god I was enjoying my pain this time.
Contd....
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You did some serious daredevilry by deciding for a solo drive all of sudden with not much preparations as such and on top of that, it’s when the cold is at its extreme. I am sure your family members would not have been most happy with this decision or was it otherwise? Just a few days ago I read another similar travelogue of Delhi – Pune – Delhi (
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. Very nice Travelogue enjoyed it thoroughly. That would be tiresome yet worth the effort I feel![[thumbsup]](https://www.theautomotiveindia.com/forums/images/smilies/Thumbs%20Up.png "Thumbs Up [thumbsup]")
. Thanks for sharing the complete experience.