Karwar to South Goa was unremarkable, except the speed limits on the Goa side were 70 for cars and many seemed to follow this.
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Many thanks to the useful suggestions from folks.
Started from Bengalooroooo eventually at 440 AM (still consider it an achievement with a 4yo & 9mo and more importantly the wife ). Reached South Goa (Varca) at 5PM including 2 food breaks, and 1 puke break for the kid and a 1.5 hour jam in the mountains after Yellapur due to a multi-axle lorry that flipped over in a turn. Apparently the incident happened at 5am and traffic was fully stuck for 3 hours. There was still a 1.5 hour jam at 2pm.
The roads till Tumkur are not great patchy and with potholes. The proper highway roads really only start after the Santoor soap factory after Tumkur. Even at early hours of the day that’s 80km from the CBD area of not being able to cruise and cover good distance quickly ! And there is significant truck traffic on this route more than other highways.
Tumkur – Hubli bypass is good. Can hold good speeds and cover distance quickly and happily.
As advised, I avoided 2-3 suspicious shortcuts shown by Mr G including the Bankapur road. It probably was a good decision since the other two shortcuts were single lane mud roads !
The going is good till Yellapur as mentioned, by in general Yellapur – Ankola is a bit annoying. 30-40km of the road after Yellapur is quite broken but there are some unpredictable bone jarring suspension breaking potholes and bad patches all the way till Ankola. It’s funny that this is the better route compared to the Dharwad – Anmod route, so that must be worse. That said, if one is in a Fortuner or a blue-blooded SUV Thar, Jimny or even the Compass, you can fly over the bad streches without much bother, but for the rest of the cars, it will slow you down and is a bit more annoying.
Karwar to South Goa was unremarkable, except the speed limits on the Goa side were 70 for cars and many seemed to follow this even on the good two lane roads. Also saw two sets of cops with speed guns enforcing this.
Just got a different experience, I may try the Anmod ghat route on the way back (planning a 6am departure from Varca beach). Or is it that bad that I should avoid the Anmod ghat and stick to the Karwar route ?
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