Wednesday 19 November 2014

Visiting Guhagar, Ganpatipule, Dapoli and Ratnagiri.

Guhagar is about 5&1/2 hour drive from Mumbai via National Highway 66 (the road to Goa from Mumbai). One has to take a right turn and leave the highway at Chiplun to reach Guhagar. The distance from Chiplun to Guhagar is about 40km.
People travelling from Pune have to come down to Satara, from where they have to travel to Patan, Koyna nagar and then reach Chiplun via Kumbharli Ghat.
Those who intend to travel from Dapoli can take a ferry ride from Dabhol to Dhopave and then travel by road to Guhagar.

Ganapatipule can be reached by a ferry ride across Jaigad creek after about one hour drive from Guhagar. By road, Ganpatipule is about 375 km from Mumbai. One has to take National Highway 66 and travel to Sangameshwar and take Nivli phata to reach Ganpatipule.
Pune to Ganapatipule via Satara distance is about 330 km. Nearest airport for Ganapatipule is Kolhapur airport. Kolhapur by road is at a distance of  about 144 km.


The journey to Dapoli from Guhagar is via another ferry ride across Vashishti river to the north. Ferry ride starts at Dhopave and reaches Dabhol in 15 minutes. From Dabhol, one has to travel by road to reach Dapoli. The time taken to reach Dapoli from Guhagar is about 1&1/2 hours approximately.


Karde beach is less than 1/2 hours drive from Dapoli. It is one of the longest beach in Konkan region along with Murud  to its north. Anjarle is about 1/2 hours drive from Karde.

The road from Dapoli to Mumbai takes about 4&1/2 hours by road via National Highway 66. It is at a distance of 240km. The road from Dapoli connects NH 66 at Khed. Pune is about 180 km from Dapoli.

Ratnagiri can be accessed by road from Ganpatipule by Aare Ware road which runs parallel to the Arabian sea.
Ratnagiri can be accessed by road from Mumbai by National Highway 66. One has to come via Nivali and Hathkhamba to reach Ratnagiri. The distance is about 330 km and it takes about 8 and 1/2 hrs.
There are many trains connecting Ratnagiri to Mumbai.
Ratangiri can be accessed by road from Pune by National Highway 4 to reach Karad followed by National Highway 166 to reach Ratnagiri via  Shahuwadi, Pali and Hathkhamba. It is about 6 hours journey.

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1 comment:

  1. Ratnagiri property is great place for travel, eco living and cultural, it's best tourism place must visit yearly.. i found many informative info from this post and blog

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