The day (May 23) we checked in to our hotel in Karde near Dapoli, the cook fled. Trust me we had nothing to do with it …but I can’t imagine a hotel without a cook!When we left Dandeli for Kolhapur on the last leg of our holiday, we had hoped that the drive would be [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Dapoli’
Dapoli – Making the best of a bad job
Posted: June 15, 2009 in TraveloguesTags: Dapoli, Karde, Kumbharli Ghat
Dapoli: The dolphin spotting was fun… II
Posted: June 15, 2009 in TraveloguesTags: Dapoli, dolphins, Kadyavarcha Ganpati, Suvarnadurg fort
But we did go dolphin spotting the next day, and also visited the Kadyavarcha Ganpati temple which was on top of a hill at Anjarle. The drive to the temple and back was amazing and nerve-wracking, because of the very narrow roads and the steep inclines. But the dolphin spotting the next day was quite [...]
Driving Round the Country Side. First stop: Bijapur
Posted: June 2, 2009 in TraveloguesTags: Bijapur, Dandeli, Dapoli, Hampi, Hubli
1st Leg, May 16: Pune-Islampur-Sangli-Athni-Bijapur 2nd Leg: May 17: Bijapur-Hampi 3rd Leg: May 18: Hampi-Hubli (night halt) 4th Leg: May 19: Hubli-Dandeli 5th Leg: May 22: Dandeli-Kolhapur (night halt) 6th Leg: May 23: Kolhapur-Chiplun-Dapoli 7th Leg: May 24: Dapoli-Polladpur-Pune Just playing with the headline from an old school joke, that’s all! We called it FRCS then… This trip was much shorter then [...]
It’s been a crazy ten odd days – driving from Pune to Bijapur to Hampi to Dandeli to Dapoli and back to Pune. And in that madness was bliss! It was an experience driving through the jungles and the ghats in Karnataka, once inhabited by the infamous Veerappan and lots of wild animals. The first [...]