Most mortals dream of it - to see the whole of incredible India in one go! Kanyakumari to Gandhinagar to Leh to Imphal and back, panning every important place in every state on mainland India- by road, in a car.To know the soul of the country, to taste the diversity of a nation, to quench the thirst for travel. You dont get to live a dream every day of your life. We are just four young enthusiastic men who are gearing up to live the dream. We are not adventurers, we are not superhuman, we are not immortals... but then, WE ARE DOING IT!
The Plan:
16,000kms - every state in the country(mainland India)
4 travellers
1 Innova
25 days (minimum, might extend upto 30)
Starts May 15th, 2011
The route:Thiruvananthapuram – Kochi – Kozhikode (Kerala) – Mangalore – Karwar (Karnataka) – Panaji – Mapusa (Goa) – Belgaum (Karnataka) – Satara – Pune – Mumbai – Palghar (Maharashtra) – Silvasa (Dadra, Nagar Haveli) – Daman Daman (Daman & Diu) – Bharuch – Vadodara – Gandhinagar – Godhra (Gujarat) – Indore – Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) – Rajgarh – Kota – Jaipur – Bikaner – Ganganagar (Rajasthan) – Firozpur – Amritsar – Pathankote (Punjab) – Jammu – Udhampur – Srinagar – Kargil – Leh – Pang (Jammu & Kashmir) – Jispa – Manali – Bilaspur – Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) – Chandigarh (Punjab, Haryana & UT) – Nahan (Himachal Pradesh) – Dehradun (Uttarakhand) – Delhi (NCT) – Agra – Kanpur – Lucknow – Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) – Patna – Khagaria – Purnia – (Bihar) – Dalkola – Siliguri – Jalpaiguri – Cooch Behar (West Bengal) – Goalpara – Guwahati – Dispur (Assam) – Shillong (Meghalaya) – Karimganj (Assam) – Agartala (Tripura) – Silchar (Assam) – Aizawl (Mizoram) – Imphal (Manipur) – Kohima – Dimapur (Nagaland) – Jorhat – North Lakhimpur (Assam) – Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh) – Tezpur – Nalbari – Kachugaon (Assam) – Alipurduar – Madarihat – Mal Bazar – (West Bengal) – Gangtok (Sikkim) – Darjeeling – Malda – Baharampur – Calcutta – Kharagpur (West Bengal) – Baharagora – Jamshedpur – Ranchi – Chaibasa (Jharkhand) – Kendujhargarh – Bhubaneshwar – Sambalpur (Orissa) – Raipur (Chhattisgarh) – Nagpur – Chandrapur (Maharashtra) – Nizamabad – Hyderabad – Kurnool (Andhra Pradesh) – Anantapur – Bangalore (Karnataka) – Vellore – Chennai (Tamil Nadu) – Puducherry (Puducherry) – Madurai – Kanyakumari (Tamil Nadu) – Thiruvananthapuram
Criteria:
- Should be a travel freak
- Should have minimum 2 years of driving experience on Indian roads(atleast 3 of the travellers should)
- Should be crazy enough to drive on for days together
- Should be healthy enough to survive altitude sickness and cheap food
- The lone traveller who does not drive should possess avid skills in maintaining logs, checking maps, clicking pics etc.
- You might miss mummy, but you cant go back home!
- Should have changed a punctured tyre at least once in a lifetime :p
Expenses:
16,000kms - fuel worth 60k
25 days, 4 hungry souls - 25k for the hunger
Occassional revival of the car - 15k
Occassional stalls to catch some sleep - 20k
Other Stuff (beg/borrow/steal):
GPS equipment - to stay on track
Laptop - to log, tweet and facebook
Camera - to show other mortals how a dream looks like!
A total of 1.2 lacs for 4 dudes = 30k per dude
We are looking for sponsors as well. If some things work out well, we might be travelling for free!
Come join us to know this country for free. You don't have to take the pain to travel or toil on the roads, you just have to keep track of our pages. Welcome to the madness!!!
Cheers,
The GIRT Team
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