Thane - Kumarkom & Back By Santro.


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My family & I love traveling especially long drives. So this year we decided trip to Thane-Coonoor-Kodaicanal-munnar-Kuamarkom-Periyar-Thane. Approx 3600Km up & down.
The drive spanned of 12 days. My planning started 2 months in advance, like route, condition of road, night drive is safe or not, special hotel bookings as we having our 13 years dog with us.
One week prior car given for servicing to Modi huyndai,Thane. There was no much work as we done car servicing regularly.
There is last minute changed in our plan, so my mother, sister, niece & aunty joined directly to ooty via coimbtoore by flight.
We decided our route Thane-Pune-Kolhapur-Belgaum-Hubli-Benglure via nice road- Mysore-Bandipur National park-Ooty- Coonoor (Approx 1272km)
On 16th Nov I, my dad & our dog started our drive at 1700hrs pickup my brother-in-law at 1715hrs from airoli and stopped for tea/coffee break after passing katraj ghat at 1930hrs. Again we stopped & had our dinner at Sai international near Kolhapur at 2330hrs. After crossing Kolhapur we fill up full tank & straight to hubli now my brother-in-law was incharge.
First time in my last ten years of driving we used car heater in between hubli to chitradurga, as inside temperature was very cold & came to know actual use of Car heater.
Road condition is good till Tumkur. After Tumkur work in progress, two lane road & some part of road diversion to be taken.
0800hrs done tank full at bengluru and stopped at Kamat Upchar after bengluru-mysore nice road as we was too hungry. While crossing bandipur national park we saw family of three elephant, deer & gaur (Indian bison) eating grass & one mother elephant crossing road with her baby. After crossing bandipur at 1400hrs now most amazing part of our journey started, 36 hairpin bend stretches before ooty. I really enjoy this part. Finally at 1600hrs we reached at coonoor.
Car used: - Hyundai Santro LE
Actual Total Km: - 1280 Km
Total time taken (Including Break):- 23 hrs
Overall fuel efficiency: - 18Km per liter without A/C
Then our second halt at Kodaicanal.
Third halt at Munnar.
And final destination kumarkom.
Approx 800 kms of span. Majority part is in ghat & two lane road. We face heavy traffic, even in small cites.
Again on 26th Nov morning my brother-in-law & aunty took off from flight from Kochi & our journey begins at 0925hrs from Kumarkom. Now this times my mom, dad, sister, niece, our dog & me with our 12 years old Hyundai santro.
While coming back we decided to come from Kumarkom-kumily-Periyar-Cumbum-Theni-Dindigul-Karur-Salem-Bengluru-Hubli-Belgaum-Kolhapur-Thane route (Approx 1634 km)
We left kumarkom at 0925hrs & reached Periyar tiger reserve at 1300hrs with three halts. First at ICICI ATM, second for cold drink, & third for shopping.
At 1530 hrs we start our actual final drive back to home. We stopped at Cumbum for our tea/coffee break at 1700hrs. After passing through ghat road of approx 10 km we enjoyed a drive of new commencing national highway 183 till dindigul. Only major cities like Cumbum,Theni,dindigul and others we face major traffic. We reached dindigul at 2130hrs & had our dinner.
After dindigul to till hubli road is good expressway of four lanes. While passing from bengluru do not enter bengluru city. Follow Mysore road via nice road till Tumkur toll booth.
We reached 0230 hrs at bengluru but wrongly enter in bengluru city. It took 30 min to follow correct road. After Tumkur toll booth we done tank full of our car & took 30min rest, and agaian start our journey & at 1000 hrs halt at Kamat upchar at ranebennur for tea break.
At 1200hrs we reached hubli get freshen up & visited Shri Siddharudh Math and started our journey towards thane. Reached thane at 2230hrs
Actual Total Km: - 1700 Km
Total time taken (Including Break):- 37 hrs
Overall fuel efficiency: - 18Km per liter without A/C
Total kms in 12 days 3850km.
Toll from Thane to bengluru & back 1846 rupees.
Toll from Theni to bengluru 326 ruppes.
Total rupees of toll 2172 up & down
Car used: - Hyundai Santro LE (April 2000 made)

Our travel itself was made possible by the contribution of many people who have done this. Across many websites this information available is fantastic and very encouraging. Not possible with out of Hyundai santro. As a slogan “It’s the complete family Car”.[:)]
 

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Re: Thane-Kumarkom & back by Santro...

Not possible with out of Hyundai santro. As a slogan “It’s the complete family Car”.[:)]
Indeed that was a good trip . I have visited Ooty but by train. I would wish to travel to Ooty by car , particularly the 36 bends.Even I have Santro and it is hell of a mile muncher. I have driven over ok to bad to very bad roads. My everyday trip is also on bad roads,. But still after 10 years it is solid.
 
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Excellent pics!!

Can you please share your total petrol expenses and other details like accomodations, local sight seeing, road conditions in details please...

Your pics are posted randomly. Can you please provide the details of the places?

Santro is really a machine from Korea. No wonder how many ever cars roll out from Hyundai, Santro always rockss [:)]

Cheers,
- Ash...
 
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First full tank at Thane- 2250
2nd Kolhapur- 1520
3rd bengluru- 2300
4th Ooty- 2200
5th Munnar- 2230
6th before theni- 1900
7th Bengluru- 1900
& last half tank at Satara- 1500
Total 15800 Rs.

Road condtions till mysore is good four lane but some part after chitradurga some work is going on.From mysore- ooty-coonoor-Munnar-kothimangalam-Kottayam-Kumarkom-Kumily-Periyar two lane & ghat road. Dindigul To mumbai again four lane good road with major toll plaza

Pics as follows:-
1.Starting KM,2. Near Mumbai-pune Expressway,3.After Mysore,4.At Mysore,5.Entering at Bandipur National park,5,6,7,8,9 passing Bandipur National park with elephant & deer,10,11 36 hair pin road before ooty,12 ooty-coonoor road, 13. Acres Wild Cheesemaking Farm Farmstay Coonoor,14. before kodaicanal, 15. kodaicanal Road, 16.Kodai waterfall,17. Befoer Munnar,18,19. Munnar tea garden 20.Kottayam Market,21. ICICI Kumarkom,22.before krishnagiri, 23,24 Chitradurga-hubli road, 25. Final Km
 

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