Travelled from Pune to Goa via Malvan: Road trip and route insights

It took us 6 hours to drive from Kolhapur to Pune.

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I just completed Pune - Malvan - Goa - Pune trip.

The road I took and condition of road is as below:

Pune - Malvan - Goa

I drove Pune - Karad - Malkapur - Anuskura - Oni - Kankavali - Achra - Malvan - Kudal - Ponda

Pune to Satara condition is OK One can drive comfortably at 80 kmph but at places surface is broken and worn out. Satara to Karad there is road widening work going on hence at places either there is diversion or only one lane is available. It slows down your travel.

Starting at 6.40 am we reached Hotel Pankaj by 9.15 am

Once we get on to Malkapur road it is butter smooth surface till you decend Anuskura ghats. From the bottom of the ghat till you join NH66 near Oni road is bad in patches. NH66 is in very good condion except a small patch of 100 meters where only one side of road is available. It took us 3 hours 40 minutes to reach Kanakavali.

Kankavali - Achara road is excellent condition except patch of 1 km where road work is going on. Achara - Malvan - Chauke - Kudal road is in fairly good condition except few patches of potholes.

Kudal to Goa border road is good Once in Goa before Pernem there is one diversion where road is two lane but freshly laid.

After Mapusa there is one diversion for flyover construction that slows you down. Similarly at Alto Porvorim flyover construction diversion leads to congestion, however, there is alternate route.

Between Old Goa and Ponda road condition is good but there are sudden potholes.

For Return

We took - Ponda - Banda - Amboli - Ajra - Gargoti - Kolhapur - Pune route.

Banda - Amboli road starts with unpaved patch of 500 meters but later till Danoli road is ok with few rough and bad patches. Amboli ghat road is not in good condition lot of potholes and broken patches.

Once you divert for Ajra past Amboli road is freshly laid concrete road with 8 to 10 bridge patches where only one lane is available. Most patches are very short 10 to 20 meters only. Ajra - Gargoti - Kolhapur road is in very good condition but many small towns on the way. I took that road to avoid Nipani - Kolhapur section that is said to be bad due to many diversions.

Kolhapur - Satara section has many diversions. Few good and few bad. Unfortunately yesterday evening there was huge traffic. Further, there is diversion at Khandala that is usually jammed. It took us 6 hours to drive from Kolhapur to Pune.

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