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...
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...
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,...
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...
drive / fort / lonavala / monsoon / trek / view point / walk
by Rajaram Sethuraman · Published Jul 7, 2018
Lohagad fort would be one of the best representations of what a Maharashtra monsoon has to offer – its history in forts and the scenic beauty during the monsoon. Climbing the fort requires a...
drive / monsoon / Narayanpur / nature / waterfall
by Rajaram Sethuraman · Published Aug 29, 2017 · Last modified Jun 2, 2025
(Updated 2025) 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...
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...
