Hyderabad to Coimbatore

[rkamal]

This Dussehra holidays we planned a long road trip to Coimbatore in our EcoSport.

 

Thanks to India-Drive members, especially @sagar @Ranger for suggesting trip route and staying food options along the route. 

 

Day -1:

 

We started around 4 AM from Miyapur, Hyderabad. Drive till Anantapur is quite familiar to me, as i have driven this route many times.

 

Drive was excellent with good pleasant weather, around 9:30 AM We reached Anantapur for breakfast at Club RuRu.

 

Food was good as well as the service and atmosphere. After some nice breakfast we started towards Bangalore, as we approach the outskirts of the city traffic made us slow down, and also the fear of over-speeding and getting fined made me cautious, kept at 60-80 speeds reached Devanahalli around 12:30 PM.

 

Our EcoSport flyaudio gave us this route which bypassed the traffic areas of the city (silkboard, electronic city) and took us to the sarjapura main road and joined on the NH just after the electronic city. The route we took to bypass the city is quite scenic and some places were narrow roads. and in some parts very rough roads (2-4 KM) with construction work is ongoing. I am attaching the route map for reference.

 

Around 2:30 we reached Hosur outskirts, despite being a Sunday afternoon the road is filled with heavy vehicles occupying all the lanes and made us slow down, managed to reach a good restaurant which serves good tamil meals by 3:00 PM.

 

The food was good and hot. after staying so long out of Tamilnadu we always look forward to eating in Tamilnadu hotels, glad we could make it for lunch.

 

After lunch started the journey towards Salem, Roads were quite good and smooth but not as wide as Hyderabad-bangalore highway. Not a pleasant experience as the vehicles seems to be in hurry and not giving space occupying all lanes, had to be very patient to outmatch the city buses.

 

Kept a average speed of 60-80 KM reached Salem, thought have a break at Salem, but due to some politicians visit (i am guessing its CM visiting his native Town) the roads were filled with cops asking us not to stop and keep left. At some places the cops were confusing us with their directions, over all a confused environment, but good thing is they reroute the heavy vehicles like lorries and trucks to some other route, so we had a clear road ahead of us.

 

The only catch is we couldn't stop for the tea break. And it started drizzling once we past Salem, it's almost 7 PM, and those rerouted trucks joined us back while we are nearing Coimbatore making our last leg of journey more interesting  At Komarapalayam we stopped for some hot Badam Milk and much needed break.

 

After that it was nice to drive to the coimbatore city with with lit wide roads, reached around 9:15 PM to Sungam cross roads, Coimbatore. After parked the vehicle and went inside the house all of us were feeling that still we are moving. From morning 4 to night 9 this makes my longest distance driven in a day. (960 KM says speedometer)

 

 We visited the famous GeDee Car museum, Coimbatore. the beauty of the museum is we can see so many vintage cars at one place which are maintained so good.

 

 Checkout few pics:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Johney]

Short and sweet report

I have been wanting to do Hyderabad to Covi form a very long time. Morning 4 to Night 9 sounds feasible, will try during Dec this year.

 

 

Edited October 15, 2019 by Johney
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[Gowtham]

Helpful information.
Thank you for sharing.

EcoSpot looks sweet on those roads. 
Classic cars ?
 

On 10/14/2019 at 12:19 PM, rkamal said:

Anantapur for breakfast at Club RuRu.

 

Is it a new hotel? 

[sniper9007]

Helpful information kamal sir . EcoSport ( EcoBeast) \,,/

[Guest Archana]

Planning a similar trip with a stopover in Bangalore. Helpful information. Thank you!

[Guest Jay]

Hi friends,

 

I need to travel to Hyd from Coimbatore on 28th April 2021, due to work related concerns. Considering the full lockdown in Karnataka. Am not sure how to travel now. Any suggestion how to pass through Karnataka. Any help much appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance, Jay

[Manjutrav]

On 4/27/2021 at 12:37 AM, Guest Jay said:

Any suggestion how to pass through Karnataka.

In this case you can skip the entry into Karnataka. You can go to Vellore via Kadapa and Chittoor. From Vellore you can reach Coimbatore via Salem. You have to travel nearly 100kms. through this route. Also, your travel time may increase by another 3 hrs. But one possible way is you can take night halt in Vellore if you want.