mahabaleshwar / monsoon / nature / panchgani / travel / view point / village / winter
by Rajaram Sethuraman · Published Feb 20, 2021 · Last modified Jun 2, 2025
(Updated 2025) 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...
Most trips to Panchgani start and end with a sandwich and a milkshake at Mapro. Our trip in May would have also been the same. But luck favoured us. While driving up to Panchgani,...
There are tons of viewpoints in Panchgani and Mahabaleshwar, but trying to fit in all of them on a day trip is just not possible. Some of the remote ones like Arthur’s seat (which...
drive / mahabaleshwar / monsoon / mulshi / nature / panchgani / travel / view point / waterfall
by Rajaram Sethuraman · Published Jul 5, 2013 · Last modified Oct 2, 2014
The monsoon has begun. If you are the kind who says, “Oh, No! It is rainingâ€, switch on the TV and watch a grandmother fight with her daughter-in-law. If you are the kind who...
drive / mahabaleshwar / monsoon / nature / panchgani / view point
by Rajaram Sethuraman · Published Jun 27, 2013
Though Arthur’s seat view point is quite far from the Mahabaleshwar town centre, it is one of the most popular view points for its dramatic “grand canyon” like views. The drive is through heavily...
drive / mahabaleshwar / nature / panchgani / wai
by Rajaram Sethuraman · Published May 15, 2013 · Last modified Aug 28, 2014
I have been to Mahabaleshwar many times. On almost every occasion, i would cast a glance at the Mapro Garden restaurant, but would not stop considering the very crowded parking spots. But, the advice...
If you remember the final scenes of Taare Zameen Par, there is a painting competition held on a mass scale in a school. There are hundreds of kids sitting on an amphitheater. For a...
by Rajaram Sethuraman · Published Jun 9, 2012 · Last modified Oct 2, 2014
It was a typical summer weekend. Our last trip out of Pune, to Sangameshwar temple, was in February and it seemed ages ago. We just wanted to go to some place. So, i started...
mahabaleshwar / nature / panchgani / view point
by Rajaram Sethuraman · Published Jun 2, 2010 · Last modified Oct 2, 2014
I guess that the sunset point is the most crowded viewpoint in Mahabaleshwar just because of the fact that you cannot view anything at other viewpoints at that time of the day and not...
dam / drive / mahabaleshwar / panchgani / river / temple / view point / wai
by Rajaram Sethuraman · Published Aug 6, 2009 · Last modified May 6, 2010
On the way from Pune to Panchgani and Mahabaleshwar, a casual traveller can easily ignore Wai as just another dot on the map. But, if the little effort of deviating around 3km from the...
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