Travelog – Hyderabad to Bangalore

Ensure you know you wanted to drive just to the place you want to – if you are bored on the way, all you have to do is to painfully return back

Pick your destination

The road you pick should make you enjoy even if it is zig zag, should stimulate you even if you are tired. I picked NH7 which is the best road I ever travelled

Pick your road

Well, this is the easiest part – love your car, and you will have a nice journey, so clean it, keep it ready and in a good long driving conditions

Pick your car

That’s not easy to say, but especially in long distances, try to maintain a cool composure. Light dress materials, sunglasses, relaxed sleep before the journey…get the idea?

Be Cool

In case you drive alone, get good company – like, this one helps me by falling down on the sides, or slides very often, I pick it up and put it back, so the strain of looking at the long stretching roads are reduced

Get Company

These photos are taken using a 2 MP cell phone camera, while in motion by an expert (he he ) - do not attempt to do this while driving, unless you got the license to thrill !

Break the limits

These roads are pristine enough for starting a journey, and you’ll enjoy warming up…the one on the extreme right are ‘Help Line Booths’ recently installed for every 2 kms stretch while approaching the destination

Warm up – Hyderabad to Thimmapur (approx. 37 kms)

These roads are where you can pick up speed in your journey, and this stretch is very popular for a number of sunflower fields – albeit now is not the season to see them. The middle picture is how solar powered lamp lights look like

Pick up speed – Thimmapur to Jadcherla (approx. 50 kms)

You could pass here only to wonder at Krishnaveni – one of the longest rivers in southern India – I could never see the end of it, but it’s a good view.

Peak yourselves – Jadcherla to Kurnool (approx. 130 kms)

It begins with newly laid roads, and in the middle you see narrow roads, railway gates and guava fruit-sellers, backed by a contour change in the form of barren lands, red-soil lakes and fresh breeze

Contour change – Kurnool to Gooty (approx. 95 kms)

This is probably the longest stretch of roads, and loneliness will engulf you

Get Lonely – Anantapur to Penukonda (approx. 74 kms)

Cross this stretch and you will get to see water bodies, small lakes, and fresh wind – your mood is bound to light up

Get Lonely – Anantapur to Penukonda (approx. 74 kms)

Smooth, inviting roads are back, and this stretch is very green – there are people, trees and breeze everywhere !

Roads are back – Penukonda to Hebbal (approx. 130 kms)

But this will excite you for sure, so ensure you don’t drive so fast, and end up like the last one

Roads are back – Penukonda to Hebbal (approx. 130 kms)

The last leg – the shortest of all, is this drive, and if you are lucky, the traffic will be less, otherwise, this will test your patience

Last leg – Hebbal to Bangalore (approx. 10 kms)

So where are you driving next?