85% of the stretch is 4 / 6-lane roads, except for the interiors of Orissa and Jharkhand, where we have to travel through thick forest.
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We have recently come to Bokaro Steel City, JH, in my Ford EcoSport. We are still here and will be returning sometime next week.
Since corona times, I have travelled to Jharkhand 8-9 times by car, mostly with family and even alone. I have used the two routes mentioned below to cover this to-and-fro journey.
Routes
- Bangalore – Hyderabad – Nagpur -Raipur – Sambalpur – Jharsuguda – Khunti – Ranchi – Bokaro
- Bangalore – tirupati – vijaywada – vishakhapatnam – Cuttuck – Keonjhar – Chaibasa – Khunti – Ranchi – Bokaro
As far as I know, there is a good 4-lane road to Janshedpur from Balasore – Bhadrak.
I don’t drive beyond 8 or 9 PM and I generally take 2 night stops because I am the only driver to cover either stretch, which is about 2000 – 2100 KM long journey spread over 3 days. This can be reduced to 2 days if there is more than one expert driver.
85% of the stretch is 4 / 6 lane roads, except the interiors of Orissa and Jharkhand (especially the state border area) where we have to travel through thick forest.
I have attached a few pics of my recent trip (17 -19th April 2025). We stayed overnight at Viziangaram and Puri. We visited Puri Temple on 18th April 2025 Evening and then had a darshan of Maa Tarini temple at Ghatgaon the next day.
There are ample places you can visit enroute. IMO, we should plan our deviations and then it would be worth doing it. Random deviations may take a longer time. On my return journey, I have planned to visit Mallikarjun Jyotirling Temple at Srisailam.
Note:
On this trip, I drove my Ecosport to Kathmandu (via Raxaul – Birgunj – Hetouda) and to Manakamna Temple. Will plan to write a blog on that.
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