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Goa – Hyderabad | Via Yadgir
There are two ways to get from Goa to Hyderabad – via Mahbubnagar or via Yadgir. This year we did the latter. Distance: 709 km Time: 16.5...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jan 4, 20161 min read
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Highway Encounter
The trip was about 325Â km long and took about 7Â hours to complete. This meant that I would reach Bangalore by about 8Â p.m., which would...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 11, 20153 min read
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Hyderabad – Aluva – Hyderabad
Update (Oct 2020): This highway is now much more crowded. Gone are the days of doing Hyderabad-Bengaluru in 8 hours. It takes closer to 9...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jan 3, 20152 min read
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Road trip: Hyderabad – Aluva [Dec 2012]
Nothing catches my imagination or fires me up as much as taking a road trip. Add to that the excitement of doing my first long trip in my...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jan 5, 20132 min read
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Hyderabad – Bangalore – Ooty
18-June-2015 | Updated information This post was written almost three years ago, so I thought it is high time I update it with fresh...
Vinay Payyapilly
Oct 29, 20123 min read
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Hyd-Madgao-Panchgani-Hyd
2500 km over 10 days – that was my year-end holiday road trip. The first leg of the journey was from Hyderabad to Goa. The trip was close...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jan 9, 20122 min read
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Carrying Goods on Indian Railways
Luggage allowance is something that all of us are aware of when we are flying, but when travelling by Indian Railways (IR) we never...
Vinay Payyapilly
Aug 20, 20102 min read
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Hyderabad – Goa
Our New Year was spent in Goa this year. Just to make it more interesting we decided to drive to Goa instead of taking the train. Total...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jan 12, 20091 min read
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Hyderabad – Ernakulam
It has been quite a while since I did this route by road, so I thought it was time to run it again. This time however things were going...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jan 12, 20092 min read
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Cascade Loop (SR20)
450 miles, an ever-changing landscape makes this drive a must-do if you ever happen to be in Seattle. My route. I started from Redmond...
Vinay Payyapilly
Dec 7, 20081 min read
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HYD-SIN-ICN-SFO-SEA
For this trip to Seattle I took a different route – Hyderabad-Singapore–Seoul–San Fransisco-Seattle on Singapore Airlines–United...
Vinay Payyapilly
Dec 7, 20081 min read
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Oregon Road Trip
970+ miles in two days. I cannot count the number of times people have told me about how beautiful the Oregon coast is. So I decided I...
Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 18, 20082 min read
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Seattle
English: The top of the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington Deutsch: Turmkorb und Spitze der Space Needle, in Seattle (Photo credit:...
Vinay Payyapilly
Feb 28, 20071 min read
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Santa Cruz Boardwalk
Under the boardwalk out of the sun, under the boardwalk we’ll be havin’ some fun The rides on offer are wonderful, though not cutting...
Vinay Payyapilly
Feb 23, 20071 min read
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San Francisco
16-Feb to 20-Feb My first evening in SF also happened to be the Chinese New Year. So the city was full of activity and there was an air...
Vinay Payyapilly
Feb 22, 20072 min read
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Hyderabad – Amsterdam – Seattle
I am finally on my way. Of course, there are shadows over my journey. For one, I am not too happy to be leaving my family behind. Just...
Vinay Payyapilly
Feb 22, 20073 min read
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