Drive to Shrivardhan in Oct 08
Drive: Located at approx 200 km from Panvel on the Mumbai Goa route. The drive from Panvel to Mangaon is awesome. If you spot a pothole on this route flag it. There were none in Oct 08. The drive is a decent 5-6 hour drive depending on when you start. Best time to start will be early moning or late night (10 ish) so that you beat the traffic you may get from Panvel bus stand to Wadkal Naka. I started from Ambernath (My khedegaon - Say 35 -40 km from Panvel) at 7.30 p.m and reached Wadkal Naka at around 9.30 and halted for dinner just after turning left at Wadkal Naka. Started at around 10.10 p.m from there and reached Mangaon at around 11.00 p.m. You have to turn right after Mangaon bus stand for Shrivardhan and Harihareshwar. The initial patch of 20 km after turning right was good after which was a patch of bad road in the Mangaon Ghat section. Now this road must have been done as the work was in progress then. After 45 km of the right turn from Mangaon you reach a T-Sec...