mahabaleshwar / monsoon / nature / panchgani / travel / view point / village / winter
by Rajaram Sethuraman · Published Feb 20, 2021 · Last modified Apr 10, 2022
When you are welcomed with a bunch of freshly plucked strawberries, you know that you in for a sweet stay! Panchgani & Mahabaleshwar are famous for strawberries, particularly in the winter-spring season from Jan-Mar....
Varandha Ghat was considered very offbeat and remote until few years ago. If you haven’t been to Varandha Ghat, it is a must visit ghat section for the wild experience. Nowadays, shops have come...
A short and sweet trip from Pune: Drive through two scenic roads, a small off-road section, a short 20 min easy climb to a set of buddhist caves and a snack stop at Vithal...
Google Maps might take you into narrow unknown roads, sometimes into dead ends. But that’s the charm of discovery. Off late, i have been spending lot of time zooming into maps and then finding...
The beauty of Pune is that you don’t have to drive far to get out of the city and in the midst of nature. Every white road branching off from the highway has something...
Rohida fort near Bhor is famous for its wind. I had heard about it many times and felt that it could be an exaggeration. It wasn’t 🙂 Rohida fort was one of the forts...
Ajivali is a small village in the backdrop of Pavana Dam. Around 2 kms from the village, a little higher up the mountains, is a devrai. Devrai is a sacred forest where the villagers...
Velas is a remote village on the Konkan coast which comes into prominence on the tourist circuit from early feb to mid March. Olive Ridley turtles come to the Velas beach every oct-nov to...
dam / drive / monsoon / nature / waterfall
by Rajaram Sethuraman · Published Sep 23, 2016 · Last modified Sep 23, 2017
It is not often that i get floored by scenic beauty that i attach words like “best” to it, but this was one such trip. In the many years of travelling around Pune, particularly...
drive / flowers / monsoon / nature / view point / walk / waterfall
by Rajaram Sethuraman · Published Sep 9, 2016
I saw a news update on a Marathi channel about this waterfall around 2 years ago and it claimed that this waterfall could be India’s tallest waterfall. This was not a well-known waterfall and...
As they say in movies, a wrong turn could take you to place you didn’t plan for. But in reality, missing a turn also has the same effect 🙂 But once we found the...
drive / lonavala / monsoon / mulshi / nature / river / view point / waterfall
by Rajaram Sethuraman · Published Aug 3, 2016
This was on the plan for a very very long time. Tamhini is a favourite haunt for us considering the relative ease with which a trip to tamhini can happen. Every time we were...
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