The side roads of Varandha Ghat
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...
Category: waterfall
Panwadi Ghat – a road trip through Europe – so close to Pune
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...
Ajivali Devrai Walk – The sacred forest
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...
Thokarwadi Dam – the best waterfall road trip near Pune
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...
Vajrai Waterfalls near Kaas, Satara
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...
Mulshi Tamhini Lonavala round trip
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...
Road Trip to Madhe Ghat Waterfall
A visit to Madhe Ghat was on the plans for quite some time. In fact, the first time when i heard about Madhe Ghat was when i saw an article saying that a new...
Two monsoon road trips for the weekend
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...
Monsoon Drive to Varandha Ghat
The road through Varandha Ghat is notorious for its bad maintenance and it shows up even more during the monsoon. But, it is this rawness that has kept the entire 50-60 km stretch of...
The year 2011, in travel
While 2010 new year weekend had a disastrous start with a miscalculated and unsuccessful trip to Raigad fort and the Pune zoo the following day, 2011 new year weekend was exactly the opposite. We...
Drive through Varandha Ghat
Tamhini Ghat is the name which most people recollect if you were to ask for the best place to drive through for watching waterfalls during the monsoon. But this is mostly because of the...
Kaas Plateau – Maharashtra’s Valley of flowers
Updates (Aug 10, 2014) (Older updates moved to end of post) The best time to visit Kaas if you want to see the wild flowers is AFTER the monsoon, sometime around mid-sep. But Kaas...
