August'17
Day 1 :
Drive from Bangalore to Hyderabad
Started my drive at 6 am morning and on the way at Hyderabad, plan was the pick up Amit from the Hyderabad airport where he would land at 2.30 pm. As the journey was more than 500 kms, I had asked one of friends to accompany me till Hyderabad. Bangalore - Hyderabad NH44, a 4 lane highway with atleast half of dozen tolls. Although the toll fees hurt my wallet, the drive was pleasant and we reached Hyderabad well before the schedule. Given the further delay of Amit's flight, we had a chance to get to a nearby Hyderabadi house to taste the famous Chicken Briyani.
Day 1 :
Drive from Bangalore to Hyderabad
Started my drive at 6 am morning and on the way at Hyderabad, plan was the pick up Amit from the Hyderabad airport where he would land at 2.30 pm. As the journey was more than 500 kms, I had asked one of friends to accompany me till Hyderabad. Bangalore - Hyderabad NH44, a 4 lane highway with atleast half of dozen tolls. Although the toll fees hurt my wallet, the drive was pleasant and we reached Hyderabad well before the schedule. Given the further delay of Amit's flight, we had a chance to get to a nearby Hyderabadi house to taste the famous Chicken Briyani.
Drive
from Hyderabad to Nagpur:
Plan for the first day was to reach Nagpur and stay there for the night. After picking up Amit, we started the drive to Nagpur through the long stretching 70 km by pass of Hyderabad. Although Amit was open to share the load of driving, a fully charged me could not move out of the driver seat. National highway 44 extending to Nagpur, was not the same as the one till Hyderabad. There were still lot of work in progress patches, which basically made us gear down quite often. Given the thick green cover around the highways around the Maharashtra border helped us to relax and get some ambient air inside. It was bit humid but still we enjoyed the nature. It did had rained in the morning and there were marshy patches, which Amit comments as “Curd Rice” J. We stopped once in between for a cup of chai and loaded some water bottles, our Stomach did need the lubrication to Digest the Briyani. We were stern on having the Dinner at Nagpur. Finally, after all the road diversions and marshy patches, we reached Nagpur. The speed at which the Metro work is progressing in Nagpur did surprise me given the fact that it was just 1 year back when I was here, there was no trace of any Metro work.
We got into a Hotel on the same road just to ensure our exit from the city the next morning would not be time consuming. It was 10:35 pm, we reached the Hotel. The whole drive from Hyderabad to Nagpur had taken us 7 hours 20 mins (this time faster than Google by 1 hour)
Plan for the first day was to reach Nagpur and stay there for the night. After picking up Amit, we started the drive to Nagpur through the long stretching 70 km by pass of Hyderabad. Although Amit was open to share the load of driving, a fully charged me could not move out of the driver seat. National highway 44 extending to Nagpur, was not the same as the one till Hyderabad. There were still lot of work in progress patches, which basically made us gear down quite often. Given the thick green cover around the highways around the Maharashtra border helped us to relax and get some ambient air inside. It was bit humid but still we enjoyed the nature. It did had rained in the morning and there were marshy patches, which Amit comments as “Curd Rice” J. We stopped once in between for a cup of chai and loaded some water bottles, our Stomach did need the lubrication to Digest the Briyani. We were stern on having the Dinner at Nagpur. Finally, after all the road diversions and marshy patches, we reached Nagpur. The speed at which the Metro work is progressing in Nagpur did surprise me given the fact that it was just 1 year back when I was here, there was no trace of any Metro work.
We got into a Hotel on the same road just to ensure our exit from the city the next morning would not be time consuming. It was 10:35 pm, we reached the Hotel. The whole drive from Hyderabad to Nagpur had taken us 7 hours 20 mins (this time faster than Google by 1 hour)
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