Road Trippin from Mumbai to Nepal!
What started off as a road trip turned out to become an adventure of a lifetime. Myself, Bhavika and Kayde – our 10-month old baby – went on a journey from Mumbai to Nepal where we crossed six Indian States and traveled within Nepal in our 11-year old car.
Yes, we made it with a baby and the car. We covered a total of 5,530 km (around 3436 miles, thats more than the width of USA at the maximum point) on our road trip. We traversed through the potholed roads of Madhya Pradesh, went on a boat ride in the Ganges, entered Chitwan forest at night, gazed at the Himalayan Peaks from Kathmandu, visited the birthplace of Gautam Buddha in Lumbini and many more interesting experiences!
Driving in Nepal was much more relaxing as compared to the journey across India. But as they say, “Its not the destination, but the journey that counts!” To start off, there was practically no information online about suggested routes to Nepal, except Google Maps which was very useful in charting the roadmap.
Here’s a look at our self-planned route to Nepal, we went from Mumbai–>Jalgaon–>Pench–>Jabalpur–>Varanasi–>Gorakhpur–>Chitwan via Sunauli border. While returning we skipped Madhya Pradesh since the state of the highway was worse than a remote village road, we took Lumbini–>Lucknow–>Agra–>Jaipur–>Pushkar–>Ahmedabad–>Mumbai.
Our road trip from Mumbai to Nepal, the balloons mark the points we stopped over!
You would have to connect the dots, every balloon indicates a stop over, though we din’t stick to the highway all the way, sometimes roads that were shown on the map didn’t exist in reality. Anyway, will delve deeper into the route as we take you Roadtrippin from Mumbai to Nepal!
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Hi Clyde,
My sister and I are planning to do a road trip from Delhi to Nepal in a few days now. Could you please give us any tips you think we should know? Thanks so much!
Hats off to u for travelling with a baby! cheers!
Satya
Hey Satya,
All the best with your road trip, for formalities regarding crossing the border please refer to this blog post
http://fractalenlightenment.com/12684/travel/finally-crossing-the-nepal-border-by-road
apart from that, I hope you have atleast 20 days, we had only ten which we regret as we never managed to see enough
but we enjoyed pokhra, chitwan the most. We also visited, lumbini, kathmandu, do visit the pashupashi nath temple (bholenath / shivji mandir) and to get a glimpse of city life visit thamel, you can stay in mustang in thamel (kathmandu) very nice rooms n food
(mustang is pronounced as moos thangh)
also a place called tansen offers home stays, try the thakali thalis veg unlimited and cheap
do let me know if you need any more info that can help
Cheers,
Clyde