The road from Patna to Cuttack
Cuttack is roughly 680 km from Patna. Our usual line runs south through Nawada and Koderma, down the Ranchi highway, then across Odisha through Rourkela, Sambalpur and Angul, arriving at the Mahanadi from the west. When the inland ghats are slow in heavy rain, the driver takes the Kolkata side and comes down the coast through Kharagpur and Balasore. Either way it is about 2 to 3 days on the road.