Route advice Bangalore - Dandeli - Goa

Hi All,
As any one recently done a trip from Bangalore to Dandeli or Dandeli to Goa? The initial search shows the route to be blr to hubli to dharwad and then to dandeli. Any feedback about this route and also from Dandeli to Goa what could be the best route.

I did Pune - Dandeli - Karwar - Goa - Pune trip last year (Apr 2009). There was about 25KM of of extreme bad road section on the route from Dandeli to Karwar via Anshi, but otherwise the route was good.

Dear All,
We had a really nice trip, was on road around 3:45 am on 4th nov from bangalore as we wanted be at JLR, Kali adventure camp before lunch . Anyways the route taken was:

Bangalore - Tumkur - Devengere - Hubli - Dharwad on NH4. This stretch was really awesome with only about 10 km of intermittent road work happening around Devangere, was able to reach Hubli by 9:15 am with awesome avg speed.
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Just before reaching Dharwad there is a turn to go towards Haliyal and then we go to Dandeli. The Dharwad to Dandeli stretch was ok roads with only small portions with potholes, but the road being narrow took us about 2 hours.

We were at JLR Kali Adventure camp by 11:15 am.. went on to take a quick nap as well and then a nice spread for the lunch at JLR satisfied us :
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We went for a jungle safari later in the evening and White water rafting the next day morning. Although rafting was the big attraction, the route here in Kali river is more technical and for beginners only with 1 level 2 rapid and couple of level 1s.

We started of around 1:30 pm from Dandeli and took the Dandeli - Ganeshgudi - Ramnagar - Goa NH4A route. The route is extremely picturesque with the Supa Dam Reservoir on the way.

We spent a good three days relaxing in goa and then started back on 8 Nov morning around 9 am.

The return route was Goa - Karwar - Hubli - Tumkur - Bangalore.

The return trip was longer and the Goa - karwar stretch had lot of traffic. But after that it was smooth ride with couple of Kamat stops.. Reached back in bangalore around 9:00 pm...

Check out pics attached.





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great pics! i also went goa on 23rd october and came back on 30th october.

Last year I got trapped near Ankola due to flood and the only option I had was the Ramnagar -Dandeli-Goa route. Karwar route was completely blocked due to landslide. I avoided the Dandeli route because of very bad road condition and very unsafe to travel at night. I advice Karwar route. Tumkur-Shimoga -Honnavar-Karwar -goa route is also good.Thanks for the last picture. Electric blue in white background looks terrific.