Road tripping with Bestie ... last leg of our journey...

So 27 days and our Bangalore to Mumbai return journey and all that we visited in between...

Left Bangalore at 6.30 am... On 13th.Nov 2022
Hubbali was our 1st.stop at the Zarthosti Dar e Meher ...
The above is a click of kms driven... Bangalore to Belgaum...

The Hubbali place of worship for the last  remaining 3 Zarthosti families...and thats  the caretaker.
some clicks from inside and outside the temple...

Belgaum Fire Temple we reached later in the evening of the same day...
The pix below are of Belgaum


The few pix below are of the Parsee Dharamshalla in Belgaum... Basic and spartan and very reasonably priced rooms too...

Breakfast by the roadside dhabha... The idli was yummmmm...and so was the choi...
The next day after leaving Belgaum... This is where we halted for lunch... Out skirts of Kolhapur... Must have the tambda and pandhra rassa thalis when in Kolhapur...

Lovely day for a long long drive...

Sunset fast approaching...
Total kms.driven... 2779.2 kms
In 28 days... (18th Oct 2022 to 16th.Nov.2022)

Belgaum To Dabolim via Dandeli forrest many big patches of bad rds.
Dudhsagar is entry point from Belgaum

Hubbali to Bangalore roads are vv good
Poona lots of bottle necks...
Mumbai has many road closures and diversions Google was Googled out...

Route...
Mumbai -Lonavala- Belgaum-Dabolim-Bangalore-Lepakshi

Return was Bangalore- (Hubbali via) Belgaum- Lonavala- Mumbai

Fun Facts
Toll booths we passed 44 total...
Amt.paid ₹3585
Petrol consumed 178.34 ltr ( Filled 7 times) 
Cost of petrol ₹21301
Average mileage of my fully loaded with luggage car and constant ac usage 15.57/km

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