tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78623523523911015542024-02-20T19:44:49.872-08:00My Travel Diaries !!!a Blog of my TraVeLs...Jyotin Prachandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096233113896663950noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862352352391101554.post-38338799807589354412016-12-23T10:36:00.001-08:002016-12-23T20:28:03.494-08:00Goa.. "Fun Capital of India..!!"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong><span style="color: #0b5394;">Goa .. Indeed is fun capital of India.. I came back from Singapore and immediately next weekend we were planning to take a long trip to Goa for 4 days. Initially I was planning to leave on Thursday Night 1st Dec but due to demonetization effect (Long ATM queue's to withdraw cash) we left on Friday Night 2nd Dec. I booked a Hotel (Estrella Do mar) in Goa near Calangute beach.. So we started around 7 Pm from house.. boarded Bus from Nigdi Bus stop in Pune. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #0b5394;">Reached </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #0b5394;">Mapusa Bus Stop (Nearest Bus Stop to Calangute.. Baga beach) at 9 am in the morning next day. Check time in our hotel was 2:00 Pm (Not sure why its too late...).. we went to the hotel kept our luggage in their luggage room. Best thing about Goa is.. Hire a two wheeler and you are a free bird.. go anywhere you want without any dependency on Cabs/Autos/Buses etc. etc. So we hired an Activa just outside our hotel for 300 bucks per day.. I had to give my I-card as a security... What Now... First Stop... Anjuna Beach!!!!</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #0b5394;">Anjuna Beach.. its nearly 7-8 Kms from Calangute.. we three were very hungry after long bus journey and then coming to Anjuna. First thing Breakfast at Guru Bar.. its was nice palce to chill out and a awesome beach view. Next we headed to Anjuna beach.. White Sand .. Blue watre .. what else you need?.. Thourughly enjoyed the Sea, Sun and Sand. Manu (my lil daughter) and Anki enjoyed a lot paying in water.. after some till we were on our way back to Calangute.. Its was around 12:00 Noon and we were not sure what to do next.. got a call from Hotel that our room is ready.. Hurrrraaaayyy.. Thanks to kind staff. We checked in and get rid of salt and sand :) .. Took some rest and headed to Saturday Night Market @ Arpora. This market was full of foreigners and looking at prices of stuff being sold.. they were the target customers.. still Anki bought some earrings.. you got to bargain your heart out.. Called it a Day after some Shopping!!</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #0b5394;">I woke up early in the morning and went for a walk at Calangute beach.. beach was quite in the morning... listening to the sound of sea waves and playing with water is such a serene experience. Churches of Goa.. we planned to visit atleast one church this time. After having a breakfast we headed to church of our lady of the immaculate conception (Difficult to remember this..had to google while writing Blog :) ) . I have seen this church in various bollywood movies and was very curious to visit it. Church is in Panaji and around 18Kms from Calangute.. it took 1 hr to reach this Place. Explores the church.. it was huge and exactly the way shown in movies. We headed back towards Calangute and after having lunch we went to Candolim beach.. Candolim is also one of the famous beach of north goa .. got one beach shack and enjoyed the sunkissed beach. Manu had gala time playing in sand. Later in the evening .. enjoyed a quick dip in hotel swimming pool.. and ended our day with a quite Candle (and moon) light dinner at anjuna beach.. amazing experience!!!</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #0b5394;">Vagator Beach .. it's around 10 Kms from Calangute.. its very quite beach with very less crowd.. One very good thing about goa beaches is presence of life guards everywhere. Spent around two hours .. swimming in sea.. running on beach ... building castles .. what fun!!! Later we headed back to our hotel.. today Anki went to swim again in hotel swimming pool and took swimming classes from the coach present at hotel premises. We explored the local market and went to Baga beach to watch sunset... Baga beach was very crowdy.. after watching sunset we headed to Anjuna beach again .. did some shopping and ended our day again in the same way as yesterday.. Dinner in Moonlight over the beach..!!</span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Last day.. :( .. since checkout was 11:00 Am .. we woke up and packed our bags.. kept bags and luggage room and headed to Arambol Beach..its 25 Kms from calangute and it took around 1.5 Hrs to reach here. We got one beach shack.. 200 Bucks and not time limit.. cant get better than this.. so this is what we did for next 6 Hrs.. SunBath .. Eat.. Swim in Sea.. Repeat!!! :) Best day of the 4 days (for me ;))... So finally we started back ... had a late lunch midway.. later we went to the same CCD in candolim where we came 7 Years back during our honeymoon.. headed to hotel.. gave back two wheeler.. picked luggage and got Taxi to O Coquiero circle.. Boarded the Bus at 7:00 Pm ..ending our memorable Trip!!!</b></span><br />
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<strong><span closure_uid_s5doeq="146" closure_uid_uq906z="140" style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Verdana;">In last two hours of trek we took break at every 15 minutes, there were loads of funny incidents while coming back. Praveen and Paddy made me remember Vikram/Betal, Sushil who was jumping here and there while going towards rajmachi was half dead by now. Nilesh and Me might have the funniest of all walking posture. Soni brother's (Mihir and Pavan) were leading the trek now, we took rest everywhere possible. Somehow we reached lonavala, had dinner in a hotel and walked till station (this was not easy as it's sounding). Finally reached station, i was praying "God.. please local should be from platform -1" as i don't wanna cross the stairs to reach other platform but to my badluck local was from platform-2. Somehow we managed and got local train, i slept on one of the seat. Each portion of my body was in pain like anything, we reached akurdi station by 11pm Night. Then me and nilesh left for nilesh's house where i parked my bike, took my bike and reached home.It took me almost 15 mins to reach till lift of my building from parking :D,, security guard burst into laugh looking at my walking speed and posture,, damn me. But this trek was really amazing one, everything went as per plan (except loads of body pain which took almost an week to recover completely) :-)</span></strong></div>
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Jyotin Prachandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096233113896663950noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862352352391101554.post-64265614526339389722011-07-31T00:58:00.000-07:002011-07-31T00:58:14.131-07:00Kanha National Park & Jabalpur<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div closure_uid_wqs99n="137"><span style="color: #93c47d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong closure_uid_wqs99n="144">Kanha National Park is very famous national park in india, it is also called as "Land of Tigers". Shooting of many documentries shown in Discovery and NatGeo are done here. So you wanna spot a Tiger,, come Kanha there are lots and lots of them. We were visiting Mandla, native place of Anki and kanha is 90 kms from here. As there is no direct connectivity to Mandla from Pune, we went till Jabalpur via train where Anki's parents and mona came to receive us. We planned to explore Jabalpur and around on that day, we visited Chousath Yogini Temple first. It's temple on small hill dedicated to Shiva-Parvati and then there are 81 statues of yogini's around the main temple in a circle. Each yogini statue was different from another one, and statue of Shiva-Parvati on nandi in main temple was also one of it's kind. A local guide who was actually a small boy from nearby village explained us the history of the Temple, there is a nice view of scenic bhedaghat from the top. </strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQY8ZfUxfVBrnlynlJaZQ_565H5fckr8UxkPEGKv2tY8d1hmAm-yoROZ9amkrPzuQ5Y1CLcVH4L7o2ndck2W71EIIZNCY5BCjdqC_y2AcoiVKN0vUNO3xKdB3iisAPnGBrkq1fNmbPkTE/s1600/IMG_5037.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQY8ZfUxfVBrnlynlJaZQ_565H5fckr8UxkPEGKv2tY8d1hmAm-yoROZ9amkrPzuQ5Y1CLcVH4L7o2ndck2W71EIIZNCY5BCjdqC_y2AcoiVKN0vUNO3xKdB3iisAPnGBrkq1fNmbPkTE/s320/IMG_5037.JPG" t$="true" width="320" /></a></div><div closure_uid_wqs99n="137"><br />
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</div><div closure_uid_wqs99n="137"><strong><span closure_uid_wqs99n="164" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: Verdana;">Next we went to Dhuadhar waterfall, Dhuadhar and bhedaghat are actually a very special place. Here river narmada pass through the marble mountains, shooting of a very famous song from movie "Asoka" was done here. There is a newly built ropeway on the river, looking at it i thought yeah mann MP Tourism is doing good,,, MP has lot of places that can be developed for Tourism. We enjoyed the ropeway ride on top of Dhuadhar waterfalls, it was a very Nice view. After exploring jabalpur we moved for Mandla. After two days staying in mandla, we left for Kanha National Park in the morning. We reached kanha by 1 Noon, Kept our bags in hotel and had spicy lunch @ Dhaba. </span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyv0uHBTV5YPsUtN73lrkzwZNJIsMLEbEQeNqjJkT0foKy667SqUUmRfucyWm81z-mVLmr6qRjx-Tzzuc9JAboEL4_i1gf8ugjDKJzb2nwp1KKapZJt-PIVRHFoG_Uq4bXcodF1Xpe4KY/s1600/IMG_5086.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyv0uHBTV5YPsUtN73lrkzwZNJIsMLEbEQeNqjJkT0foKy667SqUUmRfucyWm81z-mVLmr6qRjx-Tzzuc9JAboEL4_i1gf8ugjDKJzb2nwp1KKapZJt-PIVRHFoG_Uq4bXcodF1Xpe4KY/s320/IMG_5086.JPG" t$="true" width="320" /></a></div><div closure_uid_wqs99n="137"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_wqs99n="137"><strong><span closure_uid_wqs99n="165" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: Verdana;">Bafati uncle met us there, he was our guide in Kanha. He is also known as "Birdman of Kanha" bcoz of his vast knowledge on Birds. I was very impressed by his knowledge, his capability to identify birds is just amazing. He arranged for a vehicle for us which was a open gypsy. Ticket for one time entry for single vehicle was 1500 bucks, we also read "to do's and no to do's" in the Jungle. Some of them were very interesting, you cannot step down from your vehicle, you cannot give food to animals, don't take pics while flash of camera on etc. etc. most interesting was if an animal attacks you.. still you cannot attack back, It is their territory. Me, Anki and Mona had a debate on that jungle rule, Bafati uncle was making fun of us he said you cannot do anything.. tiger will come.. he will select which one to eat and take you wid him :).</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioSmrzU0O-mNNLuNlvmsmbisbW_QIbdAFD9npCAoZ8RFVuVFWMRPZO4NayidZxKhq1w-8U9QJThv7Ch4458bOzZwBlXYOcX4uVa1VUCBO9viTu0q1OBCoDthN4Er0WbNTjU2zWYo9L768/s1600/IMG_5273.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioSmrzU0O-mNNLuNlvmsmbisbW_QIbdAFD9npCAoZ8RFVuVFWMRPZO4NayidZxKhq1w-8U9QJThv7Ch4458bOzZwBlXYOcX4uVa1VUCBO9viTu0q1OBCoDthN4Er0WbNTjU2zWYo9L768/s320/IMG_5273.JPG" t$="true" width="320" /></a></div><div closure_uid_wqs99n="137"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_wqs99n="137"><strong><span closure_uid_wqs99n="215" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: Verdana;">Entry time in kanha was 6 - 12 in morning and 3-6 in eve, we were making entry at 3 pm. We entered through the main gate and with our vehicle almost 30 more vehicle's but kanha is so huge and there is web of so many small paths in kanha, your vehicle will be alone most of the time. I just loved the flora and fauna of the place, huge bamboo trees and various other trees on which Bafati uncle and driver of our vehicle gave us brief knowledge. As we moved in jungle we found deers, deers and deers, place is full of spotted deers. Bafati uncle told us that more than Tiger kanha is famous for "Swamp Deer" or "Barahsingha". We spotted it as soon as we entered, this is one of the species which has got special protection.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsLYrKEIqgT91_5WotAD8C1h9neLp3bEZLuTFHCIkmKjoQmSUHPjB2CxlSDXGXSVSzU5sgmrN1cx8TJ_Bg7XJIN7X-oj0O_jAxzCJRLUhF53iv7UAtdTITIVArUFurkfToyf9K9vSyEb4/s1600/IMG_5213.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsLYrKEIqgT91_5WotAD8C1h9neLp3bEZLuTFHCIkmKjoQmSUHPjB2CxlSDXGXSVSzU5sgmrN1cx8TJ_Bg7XJIN7X-oj0O_jAxzCJRLUhF53iv7UAtdTITIVArUFurkfToyf9K9vSyEb4/s320/IMG_5213.JPG" t$="true" width="320" /></a></div><div closure_uid_wqs99n="137"><br />
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</div><div closure_uid_wqs99n="137"><strong><span closure_uid_wqs99n="169" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: Verdana;">After sometime we got separate from other vehicles and moved on different track. Suddenly Bafati uncle told driver to slow down gypsy, he heard call of peacock, this term "call aa raha hai" we heard hundred of times in our two days stay :). It means any small animal making an alert sound after seeing an predator mostly "Tiger". Driver stopped the gypsy we were enthusiastically waiting for a glimpse of tiger. After some time we heard BIG roar from the jungle, this was the confirmation that there is Tiger out there. That roar was loud and we got scared hearing that, it indeed was a voice of King. We waited for 10 mins but could not see anything and then Bafati uncle pointed direction saying something is moving there. It was tiger but it was very far, we could hardly see him. Driver told us that there is another pathway, tiger might be close from there and may be if we are lucky he will cross the road from there. Bafati uncle agreed and we moved in that direction. We reached there and just after 5 mins of waiting we saw the king of jungle came toward us and he crossed the road just 2 metres ahead of our vehicle. It was pleasure watching that animal in his territory. I took lot of pictures and a short video. Tiger was moving on the road then and we were slowly following him, after 5 mins he then disappeared into the jungle searching for food. Bafati uncle told us that he is a young male and about 3 yrs old.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1CKrr1WcO_mgdPG2aM0jf4-RfkjBiHbci5RgS0iFUIYH2KKyIj7IwtzTtK_bH_xp1Z9PcAQT9386cZxU4NXapIsV_5qC4V6jJGohnrjR_5AYEtK6gQsPbNhCKRyTkqywGYnltYdSRrb4/s1600/IMG_5297.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1CKrr1WcO_mgdPG2aM0jf4-RfkjBiHbci5RgS0iFUIYH2KKyIj7IwtzTtK_bH_xp1Z9PcAQT9386cZxU4NXapIsV_5qC4V6jJGohnrjR_5AYEtK6gQsPbNhCKRyTkqywGYnltYdSRrb4/s320/IMG_5297.JPG" t$="true" width="240" /></a></div><div closure_uid_wqs99n="137"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_wqs99n="137"><strong><span closure_uid_wqs99n="172" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: Verdana;">Mann that was like dream come true watching a tiger like that, we were so happy. Later we spotted Asian Deer (Sambar), Bison and many other animals. Also spotted lots of birds, bafati uncle gave lots of information on each one of them. We were back to our hotel by 7pm, we watched small documentry arranged by MP tourism. Next morning we woke up early as we wanted to enter kanha asap. Entered in kanha at around 7 am, explored various routes of kanha and heard roars from jungle at one point. There was call of langur, we waited for some time but moved ahead after some time as we could see nothing. We spotted fox, barking deer that day. We were back by 12 noon, told good bye to bafati uncle and after some time we were on our journey towards mandla. Kanha journey was very special and that "Tiger" really made our trip.</span></strong></div><div closure_uid_wqs99n="137"><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Verdana;">We reached Narayangaon, had stopped for a while and left nashik road to move towards Junnar. Shivneri Fort is hardly 10 Kms from Junnar. We reached base of fort by 12 Noon. Parked our vehicles, and started our trek. Actually its a easy walk till the top as there is proper way, this fort is preserved well. There are lots of gardens on the fort, first of all we visited the Shivai Temple situated at the fort. You can view Lenyadri Hill from here, Lenyadri is one of the Ashtavinayak Shrine. We reached the top where birth place of Shivaji Maharaj, its small stone structure having two floors. It felt great to visit the Place.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Verdana;">We stayed at the top for a while, enjoyed the scenic from the top. After some time we were on foots for our return journey. Had Nimbu-Soda on our way back and reached parking. Return journey was also smooth, faced bit of traffic near chikhali. Reached Pune at around 10 Pm, quite a nice experience!!!</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Verdana;">Me and Anki left from our vishrantwadi house and reached shivaji nagar, Vikas and Deepali were suppose to join us here. After 10-15 mins they came and we went ahead with journey. Forgot to mention we were going to Rajgad by bikes. One way to go Rajgad is by bangalore highway but i choose diffrent route which goes via Pabe Ghat. We took sinhgad road and moved towards khadakvasla, had breakfast on way. After 45 mins of drive we saw some fencing near road in which very huge birds were running here and there. Those birds were ostriches.... it was ostrich farm!!! We never thought in our wildest dream that we gonna see ostriches that day,but yesss that's the fun of exploring new things you will always gonna get surprizesss . We took pics of every Ostrich present in that fence.. :).</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Verdana;">We moved forward,, after an hour of driving we reached the ghat section. Climate was awesome and surroundings were lush green, we halted for a while to clicked some pics. We were on our bikes again, descended down via circular roads. Aftere some time we were at point where way to Torna fort was on right side and Rajgad on left. We asked local guy for the route towards base village. On his direction's we were on our way towards base village, on the way we saw one small roadside hotel. Had tea and "garma garam" kanda bhajji on the hotel, we asked a fellow traveller that how much time trek will take. He replied atleast 3 hrs to reach there and you should stay at fort at night as it won't be possible for you to come back today itself. Me and Vikas looked at each other our plan was "tai tai Phissss" even before trek was started, basically due to lack of planning and we enjoyed route so much that forgot destination. </span></strong><br />
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</div></div>Jyotin Prachandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096233113896663950noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862352352391101554.post-226748087025852662011-06-04T23:05:00.000-07:002011-07-15T07:51:29.768-07:00Kille - Purandar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My younger bro Aniket was visiting us in Pune, after i got married. We two decided to go Purandar Fort. Purandar is again a huge fort, actually they are twin fort's Purandar and Vajragad. This is the place where "Sambhaji" born and treaty of Purandar signed between Shivaji Maharaj and Jai Singh. Purandar was indian army camp for long time, now abandoned. You can also find british era building's on the fort.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQR3_EFldt5THs41WYI-LjDrMLN9aAogPIhUwqN-ktgCJdP-DzuylwFY62kOChS0VXQYvTkW-f5DUHgfMSUX2AvZGwDzrs5ui7dpwlX-zCmocn13OkTSHEe_VKHAKyGhFgbY9zLl8-G_4/s1600/DSC00355.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQR3_EFldt5THs41WYI-LjDrMLN9aAogPIhUwqN-ktgCJdP-DzuylwFY62kOChS0VXQYvTkW-f5DUHgfMSUX2AvZGwDzrs5ui7dpwlX-zCmocn13OkTSHEe_VKHAKyGhFgbY9zLl8-G_4/s320/DSC00355.JPG" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Verdana;">You can either trek to Purandar Fort or you can drive till top as Fort is well connected by road. We decided to drive by bike till top of fort. We both left in morning form my Kothrud house, then via Chandni chowk we moved ahead on satara road. Fort is around 40 Kms from Pune, after 1 1/2 hr of drive you need to take a left towards Narayangaon. Purandar fort is on the backdrop of famous "Datta Temple" in Narayangaon. On way towards Narayangaon you will see a "Tirupati" of North, yes there is an exact replica of Tirupati Balaji temple here, Temple is very clean and Nice.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0SnndTSx55R4GQlLYCI6_0BUvUBfeDE_mlM9dvNYYwhd67CRr5lRwv35LI28wbKvC7q1w36GyUu_1Iri2l5k64qZr7T7ou_t5kTmoOaIBXCUk0fvDcojlzkg6cZb19Ug_6EM4ouv-Ly4/s1600/DSC00365.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0SnndTSx55R4GQlLYCI6_0BUvUBfeDE_mlM9dvNYYwhd67CRr5lRwv35LI28wbKvC7q1w36GyUu_1Iri2l5k64qZr7T7ou_t5kTmoOaIBXCUk0fvDcojlzkg6cZb19Ug_6EM4ouv-Ly4/s320/DSC00365.JPG" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Verdana;">As you move ahead you will see small ghat section, and then some more old temples. These temples has classic architecture, just behind those temples you will see a Huge fort. We drive on the circular roads to finally reach till main gate of fort. Fort was really very huge, i just loved the view of fort in the backdrop of statue of Baji Prabhu.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhunU-M58tjDUrOtjQVMcU2omVVE0WHc8K_CeDms1AGzgi5oV5uQPEzLWvS0ugocNW0jfeXcB9PKHe1-XuYzviW8UYZcW3iLk4n5uCcMGUiC_a_83yT_HyDFGK5FEjbCnpxIJJ6OXovudI/s1600/IMG_3505.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhunU-M58tjDUrOtjQVMcU2omVVE0WHc8K_CeDms1AGzgi5oV5uQPEzLWvS0ugocNW0jfeXcB9PKHe1-XuYzviW8UYZcW3iLk4n5uCcMGUiC_a_83yT_HyDFGK5FEjbCnpxIJJ6OXovudI/s320/IMG_3505.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Verdana;">We parked our bike and moved ahead to explore the fort. As you walk you will see a very old Shiva Temple on right, it's Purandareshwar temple. Just behind this temple goes way to reach top of the fort. Its an 1/2 an hour trek form there to reach the top. We started small trek towards the top, it was very small pathway. After 15- 20 mins of trek, we saw an angry cow standing right ahead on the road. As soon as she saw us she started running towards us, in no time i was on one tree and aniket on other.. ha ha,, that was kind of funny when we were waiting for cow to go.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitzFL2bcjeb243ng_hjNA1IS67YEmFyvxBBPvupUDgZU0LmiYI8-cDfA94Eb_HX6gyKs-gf_QgcCiQyrzvt762M4VgbaVMOyq5xqpcdtbuxP-rmR_RvNqkuiU3Xg_wbnyFhk7avQtk7xE/s1600/IMG_3536.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitzFL2bcjeb243ng_hjNA1IS67YEmFyvxBBPvupUDgZU0LmiYI8-cDfA94Eb_HX6gyKs-gf_QgcCiQyrzvt762M4VgbaVMOyq5xqpcdtbuxP-rmR_RvNqkuiU3Xg_wbnyFhk7avQtk7xE/s320/IMG_3536.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Verdana;">Once she left we came down and started again, reached the Top of fort. It was really windy out at the top, we explored the fort. After some photo sessions we started descending down. We were back to our bikes within an hour and started on our way back to home. It was really nice one day trip.</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div></div>Jyotin Prachandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096233113896663950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862352352391101554.post-86478602095336165092011-06-04T10:58:00.000-07:002011-06-04T10:58:13.299-07:00Panhala Fort - Kolhapur<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #76a5af;">Being a big devotee of Goddess "<span style="color: #990000;">Durga</span>" i never miss a chance to visit any shrine dedicated to her. After Marleshwar-Mahimatgad trip, i was the latest victim of Loveria, fell in love with Anki and as it was pre-written that our destiny is together. We got engaged and i moved back to Pune after spending almost an year in Bangalore. We planned to visit Kolhapur and Panhala Fort which is near to Kolhapur. It was a short trip, we planned to leave on friday night by over night train to Kolhapur, then explore Kolhapur -Panhala in day time and back again on saturday night by train.</span></strong></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsxlKvazvhhQfnTKnbmlOildkz6dPLSVJf2nm8ri0miISaHkSRvQK4xnIe_3qV85GTgmpLUb1XcXgHiyaQYWgLU6f-wlHqlUkob9EfRNdqkCUzGsZtHuKLFw-BZm-31RCBqX_i5X1lFN8/s1600/IMG_1926.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsxlKvazvhhQfnTKnbmlOildkz6dPLSVJf2nm8ri0miISaHkSRvQK4xnIe_3qV85GTgmpLUb1XcXgHiyaQYWgLU6f-wlHqlUkob9EfRNdqkCUzGsZtHuKLFw-BZm-31RCBqX_i5X1lFN8/s320/IMG_1926.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Verdana;">I did reservation of Anki by train from Mumbai to Pune, and our's from Pune to Kolhapur train. Anki reached dadar station to catch train and found all the mumbai - pune trains are cancelled :) due to pipeline broken on railway line. With no option left she catch a bus, this time adventure start's even before journey was started. Bus usually takes 4-5 hrs from Mumbai to Pune and exactly that much time was left to catch train from Pune. I reached Pune station, train was on Platform and Anki's bus has reached Aundh. I thought we lost the train, after some time Anki called she will be reaching Pune station in 5 mins, train was still at Platform and about to get green signal any time. Finally she reached station and then there was confusion of "which" Platform and "where" on Platform. We were running here and there and finally got the train. Train left within 2mins we boarded it, i thought we have the blessing of Godess and thanked her.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl0WAnYIo-j2PVyLdpicTxvPIjer8oVcuyTDkXFIwrqNSM_vOmVJ9fpPHy9WLdoN3HmyJwuH6iiIK8kEl03vbsGPPOWGKm3TBnXP_nPcDehfNverFR9SsXy8T0wXdhmcPryWEuk3DLn8M/s1600/IMG_1917.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl0WAnYIo-j2PVyLdpicTxvPIjer8oVcuyTDkXFIwrqNSM_vOmVJ9fpPHy9WLdoN3HmyJwuH6iiIK8kEl03vbsGPPOWGKm3TBnXP_nPcDehfNverFR9SsXy8T0wXdhmcPryWEuk3DLn8M/s320/IMG_1917.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Verdana;">We reached kolhapur early morning without any more surprizes, had tea and hired a Auto to reach temple of Goddess. After reaching temple we first got an hotel, kept luggage there and went for the darshan. Since there was not much crowd we got darshan easily, such an special feeling after visiting the shrine. This temple is one of the Shaktipeeth where "third eye" of devi sati has fallen. We had lunch and catch a bus for Panhala Fort which is 15 - 20 Kms from Kolhapur.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq0T6QX7KyYuWz2lrNRVZ845YfL5gpSmHjlBOuRQOoWBOOWXuznLA_BCl-dIPPmH7kmPbThNWiK0j9RDA2AiuAxHs7GnLU1e0w7KNPiflmOmcDz6V4JcwDAVjECNOW-Oss2HF10FFIrVw/s1600/IMG_1932.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq0T6QX7KyYuWz2lrNRVZ845YfL5gpSmHjlBOuRQOoWBOOWXuznLA_BCl-dIPPmH7kmPbThNWiK0j9RDA2AiuAxHs7GnLU1e0w7KNPiflmOmcDz6V4JcwDAVjECNOW-Oss2HF10FFIrVw/s320/IMG_1932.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Verdana;">After reading book "Shriman Yogi" i was really fascinated about various forts of Shivaji era and Panhala was one of them. Historic Panhala to Vishalgad escape of Shivaji Maharaj took place here when siddhi jouhar surrounded the fort. Sacrifice of "Siva Kashid" and Courage of "Baji Prabhu" was going on my mind as i had first look at the Fort. Fort is very huge and still in good condition. Forts was so suge that we had to hire auto to explore it completely. Yes, you can hire Auto this fort is well connected by road.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6v1XWmXXOj5Vf1w-pNwoEbEAK-531HVsPZ1oNDiRUtuI9fnzNUkugFS0jZMiErOM8lmDvAtlmuU2ceLuEnFPSbAVsguqEAjv0QyvxX197Fxi3Y3_VPJxcRVLLqbUqZFuvu9ka-nUad18/s1600/IMG_1953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6v1XWmXXOj5Vf1w-pNwoEbEAK-531HVsPZ1oNDiRUtuI9fnzNUkugFS0jZMiErOM8lmDvAtlmuU2ceLuEnFPSbAVsguqEAjv0QyvxX197Fxi3Y3_VPJxcRVLLqbUqZFuvu9ka-nUad18/s320/IMG_1953.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Verdana;">We explored the fort, saw lot of monuments and after around 1 1/2 hrs we were on our journey back to Kolhapur. After reaching kolhapur we had dinner and boarded train and we were back to Mumbai next morning. This trip was a nice short weekend outing, Panhala Fort is worth a watch.</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Verdana;">I asked Anki if she will be joining trek, she said yes and i did bookings for both of us. I travelled from Bangalore to Pune, KSRTC buses are really nice. It was a Bangalore-Mumbai bus, so it dropped me at katraj. Felt great on being in pune, Anki was suppose to come by train from mumbai so i reached Pune railway station. We were meeting after really long time, after that short "Hi-Hello" on dadar station. As she arrived we directly went FC road our meeting point for the trek. Had dinner and waited for other people to join as we refreshed our childhood memories.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Verdana;">We started from the FC road, stopped in between to had tea. I woke up in morning, we were at Hotel near Sangameshwar Road railway station on Konkan railway line. The Place was really nice, we all had breakfast and moved ahead. Atfirst we went to samadhi of Sambhaji and then visited the Karneshwar Temple. This is the only temple dedicated to "Karna". Architecture of temple was really nice and we had great time. Then on way to Marleshwar we stopped for Lunch, hotel was near to river where we played Antakshari on full volume.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Verdana;">We reached Marleshwar in the evening, Marleshwar is famous for Shiva Temple. We all visited the temple and then had bath at waterfall near to temple. Mann that was really relaxing feeling having bath in Waterfall after exhausting day, Full Masti we did. By the time we made lots of friends, Darshana, Harshad, Sumeet lots more. After visiting marleshwar we reach Kundi base village of Mahimatgad. We had to stay in govt. school of the village, first of all we all prepared for dinner. Trekdi team carried one stove and gas cyclinder, our dinner was hot tomato soup and Magii (Magii Magii... ) :). It was good teamwork. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Verdana;">It was really cold night of Jan, next morning we wake up, had tea and left for the Trek. Trek was nice without any surprises, as we were moving up we saw two police man carrying Indian National Flag. It was 26th Jan Republic day and the were carrying Flag to host at the top of fort which they do every year. We all happily joined them and hosted flag and sang National Athem. It was patriotic feeling and pleasent surprise as no one of us expected we will be hosting National Flag at the fort.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Verdana;">After exploring the fort we started descending down. By 2 Pm we started for Pune. As usual returning journey is always more fun as we all know each other after all that sharing and caring. We were back to Pune in midnight, then after "Bye- Bye" to everyone and giving each other's mail id's, i dropped Anki at her freind's place and i reached at my old house in pune in pradhikaran. This trip was really special in my life and it started a new chapter.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Verdana;">-Jyotin</span></strong></div></div>Jyotin Prachandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096233113896663950noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862352352391101554.post-92228396667081563552010-10-24T01:13:00.000-07:002011-07-30T21:19:07.904-07:00Kille - Lohgad<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: orange;">Kille-Lohgad</span> is one of the fort which is currently renovated and can be reached by Trek via Malvali or you can ride till its foot via Lonavla. We decided to go by Bike's via Lonavla. Our Group consists Me, Anoop, Candy, Guruy, Amit & Sumit. We started in the Morning, (Sumit,Guru) on Pulsar, (Me,Anoop) on Discover & (Candy,Amit) on Discover. If you wanna Trek to Lohgad then catch a Local from Pune Station.. get dowm at Malavali and go ahead with Trek. One can also visit Bhaje Caves which is on the way and worth a visit.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana;">View of nearby dam from top of the fort is excellent. After reaching back to base village we had snacks. Now here comes the twist of trip, Mr Guru left the key of his bike's Tank in the bike itself and someone took it... :). Now what to do, first of all we lashed out at Guru. We waited for help, one guy was going by his bike and his bike had lock in petrol tank and guess what we were able to open petrol tank of guru's bike with his keys. But waste, since he also need the key to drive his bike, we laughed @ ourselves. With no option, we somehow managed to go till Lonavla as most of the route till lonavla is slope. </span></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span closure_uid_oxa47="137" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana;">Guru pledged that he will remove that lock from his bike's tank .. ha ha. After reaching Lonavla, we got a keymaker, in no time he made key. Finally we started back. It was almost 8 in the night and everyone was damn hungry after that parade. We found one good hotel and then menu came. After reading menu we looked at each other, that hotel was verrrry costly. :) we had coldrinks and started towards home again, later found one dhaba and had dinner. Reached home at arond 10:30 in the Night, it was nice one day trip. </span></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div></div>Jyotin Prachandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096233113896663950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862352352391101554.post-66416259030576012452010-04-30T20:00:00.000-07:002010-04-30T20:00:36.233-07:00Vaishno Devi / Patnitop (J&K)<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>M Back after a Long time... so much has happened in my Life in the past Six Months,I Got married with the <span style="color: red;">"LOVE</span><span style="color: red;">"</span> of my Life <span style="color: magenta;">"Ankita"</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #666666;">.</span> </span>Getting back to my Travel Experiences;.This one is special bcoz its one of the trips outside Maharashtra. All my trips which i have shared till now were weekend getaways.. this one was a long one. Me and Salil (my cousin) were planning for a long trip since college days but couldn't go bcoz of studies n all. But this time we decided we will go somewhere, i cameup with the Plan to go Vaishno Devi (in Jammu Kashmir) and Jwala Devi (Himachal). Salil agreed, we tried hard to make a group but no one came wid us so atlast we two went on.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana;">As planned i went to Dadar station to board Train (Punjab Mail), Salil was supposed to catch the train from Kalyan station. I planned to board the train from Dadar bcoz Ankita (My Best Friend then) was coming to meet me at Dadar. I reached dadar around half an hour before the arrival time of Punjab mail but Ankita didn't. I called her she said "I just Left.. ll be there" .. 5 mins .. "I am in Auto .. ll be there".. 10 mins "I just caught Local Train.. Don't worry i ll be there".. announcement of Punjab Mail coming @ Dadar... "M still in Local.. don't worry you go to Punjab Mail's Platform .. i will be there".. Atlast i saw Punjab Mail coming from one side and from other side Ankita running towards me. We just said "Hiiii .. exchanged Smile... then Bye!!" and i boarded the Train :-). That was shortest possible meeting. Coming back to the trip, Salil boarded the train at Kalyan and next day around 10 Am (Sunday) we reached Vidisha (My Native Place).</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana;">We stayed at Vidisha for a day, Salil's parents came to my place to visit us. Next day (Monday) morning we boarded Jhelum Express from Vidisha station. Journey by train is always a good experience, just before reaching Jammu we got our luggage, mobiles checked by securities. We reached Jammu next night ,around 8 Pm (Tuesday). Just outside Jammu's railway station you can easily get a bus to go Katara which is base for Vaishno Devi. Got a bus, we reached Katara at around 1Am (Wednesday) Morning. Hotel condition was ok, that guy took 900 Bucks for a stay of two days . Slept for aroud 5-6 Hrs, we woke up early as we had to go for Vaishno Devi darshan. Take my words, bathing that early was the most difficult task :(, that too in. You need to get a ticket for the Darshan, around 15 - 20 Rs per person , then we started for Vaisho Devi yatra with the words "<span style="color: #660000;">JAI MATA DI!!!</span>".</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana;">We were already loaded wid cloths because f cold and to our surprise it rained that morning, so we bought temporary raincoats available for Rs 20 each. Now we were looking like eskimos :). To reach the Vaishno devi gufa you need to walk around 10 Kms. Initial 5 Kms you need to walk, rest 5 kms you can either go by "tattoo" via Ardh kuwari or tempo via other route. We decided to walk till vaishno devi. Vaishno Devi yatra is experience of lifetime man , from every possible direction you will hear "Shera wali ki Jai.. " "Jyota wali ki Jai.. " "Pahadan wali ki Jai".. lot more. Your energy level will reach cross all the vertical limits. We reached Gufa somewhere around noon, had darshan and came back by eve. One good experience that there r huge numbers of photography studios on whole way, each studio has replica of vaishno devi gufa, you will feel like Devi is with you at every step. We came to Hotel after having dinner and planned for the next day.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana;">We cancelled the plan to Jwala Devi, instead we plan to go Patnitop. As we both wanted see snowfall. Patnitop is a hill station on Jammu Srinagar highway, it is the highest point on the highway so there r very bright chances of snowfall. We got the bus from Jammu bus stop till Patnitop, as we were reaching our destination rainfall started, slowly rain drops were started turning more white as we move on to our destination. And after some time it was heavy snowfall, one of the breathtaking moment of my life. We reached patnitop in that snowfall, everything there was white and completely covered with snow.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana;">Got an amazin Hotel; completely made of wood in kashmiri style. We kept our luggage and went out. All roads were empty but we played with snow like kids and explored the hill town. Stayed at patnitop and next day again came to highway to get bus to Jammu as we had catch the train from jammu. Got srinagar-jammu bus, entire road till jammu was full of scenic beauty of kashmir. We reached jammu by evening and got the Train Malwa Express. All I can say is.. Patnitop is a must visit.. Kashmir is truly a <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">Heaven on Earth</span>...</span></span></strong><br />
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</div>Jyotin Prachandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096233113896663950noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862352352391101554.post-45422572101080265832009-10-29T04:37:00.000-07:002011-06-04T21:00:51.506-07:00Ganpatipule... Ekla Chalo..!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>After Alibaug Trip <em><span style="color: purple;">(My Second Post)</span></em> a Big Success, we started planning for a Trip again. Searched on the net for some destinations and cameup with <span style="color: purple;"><em>Ganpati Pule</em></span>. Its a Beach on Konkan coast near to Ratnagiri. Ganpati Pule is also famous for Ganpati Temple from which this place got its name, temple of Ganpati is on the Beach itself. We did all the planning, as planned we were suppose to go by ST bus from Swargate Bus Stand on Saturday. As planned i reached Ashish's Place at friday night, but by then everyone backed out from the Trip. Now since i was all set to go, i thought lets have atleast one expierience of travelling alone.I got up early in the morning since bus was at 6:30 Am from swargate bus stand, i reached on time to the stand and got the Bus. Journey by bus was awesome, bus went from panchgani-mahabaleshwar way and joined NH-17 (Mumbai-Goa Highway). </strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I Reached Ganpatipule at around 3 Pm.. much more time than i expected, since the journey was amazing i didn't felt bored. Ganpatipule is small village, not very much options available to stay. So i started with searching for the hotel first, there is MTDC Beach Resort but that was out of my budget, then there are cheap room available in dharmshala of Ganpati Mandir samsthan but that is available only for married couples or family so i cant get it. Most of the hotels were full, at the end i got room in hotel. Since i was alone i had to submit my I-Card to get the room, thankfully i carried my PAN Card with me otherwise i would have to sleep on beach. Hotel owner took 400 bucks from me for the room for 24 Hrs, then i went ahead to beach for Sunset. I sat for long on the beach watching sunset, very different experience, kind of independent feeling. On addition to that konkani food was delicious.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Next morning i got up early and went to Ganpati Temple to offer my prayers. There is small mountain adjacent to the Temple, it has shape as face of Ganpati, people use to take pradakshina of the mountain. I also went for the same, i also told my wishes in the ears of statue of mouse infront of Ganpati Temple. After taking the darshan i went for camel ride on the beach and then masti @ Beach as well. I disturbed lot of people to take my snap.. since noone was with me.. he he. I Returned from beach and check out of the Hotel. My Next Desination was Ratnagiri which is around 25Kms from Ganpatipule.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I got ST bus for ratnagiri, route to ratnagiri from ganpatipule was also very nice, you can view Sea all the time. I took almost an hour to reach Ratnagiri, first thing i did was to locate the private transport bus services to Pune. After sometime i booked my ticket to Pune in a Private bus which was at around 9:00 Pm. Now i went ahead to explore ratnagiri by myself. I hired an auto to go Ratnadurg fort, autowala took some 30 Rs to get me there. Fort was Nice and there is temple of Devi on the Fort. I saw the fort from every angle just below the fort was sea. After watching the fort i went down, there were lot of fishing boats, i sat there for a while and went back to city.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Since there was still some time left i explored the ratnagiri market. At around 8:30 Pm i reached the Pickup point of my Bus. Got the bus and reached Pune next morning at around 6:00 Am. GanpatiPule is amazing place, specially beach is very clean with white sand and konkani food is delicious.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">-Jyotin</span></strong></div></div>Jyotin Prachandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096233113896663950noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862352352391101554.post-37013783877286739532009-10-29T00:24:00.000-07:002009-10-29T00:31:41.564-07:00Shivtharghal.. Place where Dasboth was written!!!<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I First time heard about Shivtharghal from my cousin Nakul, they had a family visit to the place. Nakul told me this place is full of Natural beauty with the Religious importance, i got this info when i was in College. Since then i thought atleast once i will go to this place. As per Religious importance this is the place where Samarth Ramdas Swami written book "Dasbodh". Now, since none of my friends heard of Shivtharghal i searched for the transport and other things. We five people (Me, Ashish, Ruchita, Deepti and Didi (Deepti's Didi)) were suppose to go for this one.</span></strong><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shivtharghal got its name from Shivthar and Ghal .. Shivthar is the base village and Ghal means caves, Shivtharghal is actually huge caves where Samarth Ramdas Swami written "Dasboth". Just a day before the Trip was planned Ashish backed out, so me and the three ladies left and we went ahead for the Trip. As Planned we board a ST Bus to Mahad from Swargate Bus Stand at around 8:30 - 9:00 Am, condition of Bus was ok. Journey by bus was amazing, full of natural beauty, road portion near to back waters as well. Most woderful was Vrinda ghat, lot of Hair Pin bends and that ST bus will still go smoothly, hats off to the driver of Bus. We asked the conductor of the Bus to let us know where to drop for Shivtharghal.</span></strong><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana;">Bus halt at Vrinda ghat we took some snaps there, after some time we get down from Bus, from there Shivtharghal was 15 Kms. Got one shared auto for some 15 Rs/head and we reached Shivtharghal at around 1 Pm. Nakul was completely right, this place has Amazing natural beauty, we saw the caves and other stuff and moved ahead for the waterfall. We walked for some time towards upper village and reached to waterfall. Waterfall was complete refreshment, we sat there for a while and moved back towards the caves, found some place to have lunch .. food was just deliciousss. We then planned to move back to Pune, got shared auto and we reached the same village on Pune-Mahad Road.</span></strong><br />
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</div>Jyotin Prachandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096233113896663950noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862352352391101554.post-7576901261469213722009-10-22T22:55:00.000-07:002009-10-25T23:03:09.946-07:00Matheran Trippp.. :-)<span style="color: #cccccc;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I always heard about Matheran in Magazines, TV Shows but never got a chance to visit it... Finally we made plan to visit this clean hill station. This time we office buddies planned to visit Matheran which includes Me, Mahendra, Dada (Yes same dada from last post :-)) and Sumit. Since Me and Dada are travel freak we made the plan, we were suppose to board express train from Chinchwad Railway Station (Pune-Mumbai Track) early morning saturday, we will go till Neral nearest rail head to Matheran. From Neral we planned either to go by Toy Train if available else by four wheeler. I got up early morning, dada and sumit also reached to my place in time.. then we called mahendra again and again but Mr. Mahedra was sleeping with his mobile on silent. We went to Mahendra house and get him ready by then we missed our train. </span></strong><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana;">That point was scary full of fog, no one was there except four of us.. we shouted our names and heard the echoes from every direction for a while. By the time we started towards hotel it was dark, we started sharing stories of ghost and all. It was fun sharing all those stories because atmospehere was already there, it was dark, fog was there and old bunglows which we use to see in ghost movies. We reached back to the hotel at around 9 PM had dinner and ended our day with some more interesting ghost stories. Next day Me and Dada wakeup early and moved to see some of the points leaving sumit and mahendra in the hotel. We saw some points.. lot monkeys were providing there company to us everywhere.. we came back to the hotel after 2 hrs, mahendra and sumit were ready by then. We had breakfast first and hired four horses, me and mahendra specially went for the black horses and i give 50 bucks extra to get some tips of horse riding.</span></strong><br />
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</div>Jyotin Prachandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096233113896663950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862352352391101554.post-67718318296776973092009-10-20T23:06:00.000-07:002009-10-22T02:22:12.752-07:00Makrandgad/Mahabaleshwar/Tapola/Pratapgad<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everytime after coming from a Trek, i use to decide "too much.. now i won't be going for a trek again" but as always ended up in going for one more trek. This time with buddies from my project in Capgemini DFS.I told everyone that there is a one day trek (Makarandgad) trekdi is going to organize everyone agreed to go for it, also way to Makrandgad is from Mahabaleshwar so we thought while coming back with trekdi group we will get down on Mahabaleshwar and will have night hault there. Next day we were planning to go Tapola and come back to Pune same day. Everything was set i did the booking for Me,Vivek (Kutti), Manish, Saurabh Shah (Shahji), Siddharth (Chakru), Srijib (Dada) and Pranaya for Makrandgad Trek on Trekdi site. Ankit (Pappu) and Saurabh Trivedi (Robo) were not interested in the Trek so they were suppose to join us on Mahabaleshwar directly.</span></strong><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As per plan we had to reach the FC Road (Meeting Point of Trekdi) on Friday evening, we were suppose to reach the base village of makrandgad at around 1 AM next day. We will stay at base village till morning and then start the trek and will be back by evening. As planned all reach the meeting point, had dinner on a hotel at FC Road. Now Pranaya told us he is not feeling well and having loose motions.. ha ha :-). He told us he will quit and won't be going with us, after some more time he came up saying he will go with us till base village but wont be going with us on trek rather will stay in bus. We all left by a private bus arranged by the Trekdi team, initial journey was OK but after some time ghat section started, snakelike roads and core jungle. I never had an experience of how the arrangements was done by trekdi group for a night stay since all my previous treks were a single day trek. As far as rest of guys with me, this was there first trekking experience and before booking was done everyone asked me how will be the arrangements for night stay and i told them it will be nice trekdi group always organizes the treks very well... later on everyone killed me for that sentence.</span></strong><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>We woke up early morning, all our bedsheet were wet because of morning dew.. :-). In the morning we found the school, since water was available near to school. We were searching for toilets but we didn't found one, finally we were told that we had to go in forest for that. Damn everyone was like burnt out, we took the plastic bottles and went into the jungle. Since there was no local shops available we had to prepare the breakfast as well, trekdi group bought the stove and packets of maggi. We all prepared maggi, and had it although maggi was not much tasty, it was nice experience. Also lot of school kids came while we were preparing for breakfast, all of them bought different colours of flowers since that day was Gudi Padwa. That made us remebering innocent school days, we took some snaps with the kids as well. After having breakfast looked at the makrandgad fort from base, completely covered with fog we were able to see only a bit of top. Climate was very nice and cool. We started the trek, most of the portion of trek was from the jungle and pinakin as always was sharing knowledge on butterflies, some stories of forest reserves etc. Trek was nice, it was bit dangerous just near the top. We stayed at the top for a while and then started descending down from a different route, after some time we were at the base. We had lunch at the base which was packed parathas, dada was angrier than ever. We started from the base towards the pune, as planned we got down at mahabaleshwar but manish and dada changed there plans at end moment and decided to go to Pune with the Trekdi.</strong></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="background-color: black; color: #999999; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We came back to mahabaleshwar in the evening, we were suppose to go to pune that evening. We searched for some sort of vehicle but didn't got any, so we decided to go Pune next day morning, but me and chakru was in oppose and decided to go to pratapgad next day and pune in the evening next day. Others left for pune in the morning while me and chakru took pratapgad darshan bus from ST stand and headed towards pratapgad. This Fort is famous because here Great Shivaji killed Afzal khan using Bagh-Nakh. Very nice fort, we took some snaps of the fort and get back to mahabaleswar and to the Pune from Mahabaleshwar via ST Bus.</span></strong><br />
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</div>Jyotin Prachandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096233113896663950noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862352352391101554.post-20011854233280182992009-10-09T02:18:00.000-07:002011-06-04T21:14:18.767-07:00Vairatgad Trek.. Pleasent One<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vairatgad is a small fort in wai region, as far as History is concerned this fort was built in 11th Century. Great Shivaji Maharaj used this fort as a Military station. This Trek was also arranged by Trekdi Group, we (Me, Guru, Nilesh and Sandeep) participated for this Trek. Me and Guru has BIG kida of travelling, we always use to roam here and there. Nilesh was my onsite-cordinator just returned from US 2 that time and Sandeep was my offshore lead in the project. This was Nilesh's first time while Sandeep had huge trekking expierience.</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana;">Eventhough i had a Night shift i was all excited about trek next morning, Nilesh picked us all and we reached FC road meeting point of Trekdi. We kept our bag in bus and all four left to had a tea in nearby stall. We were gossiping at the stall, than we saw a bus passing from nearby road. Me and Guru saw the bus, looked at each other, i asked "Is that our bus", then we saw the place where our bus was standing, nothing was there. We were like Oh Shit!!!, we ran behind the bus, thankfully i had the number of Shridhar Group leader of Trekdi. I called him and ask him to stop the bus on next square. Finally we got the bus, face of shridhar was all red that time when we entered in the bus.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrsCQPQaOibDj8680k-AWGNNcwIOP9_5qLBN6SGcF94Ibz5aq1FX3j2V0KtLZSDQGiRZaBtel7U9dxUKLS5VPnKwk-b6pOcDslmJe8Eeu3Dc9-T0UBEBkm_kAw6uh4HCOTrJH0pn3gkBI/s1600-h/IMG_4067.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img $r="true" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrsCQPQaOibDj8680k-AWGNNcwIOP9_5qLBN6SGcF94Ibz5aq1FX3j2V0KtLZSDQGiRZaBtel7U9dxUKLS5VPnKwk-b6pOcDslmJe8Eeu3Dc9-T0UBEBkm_kAw6uh4HCOTrJH0pn3gkBI/s320/IMG_4067.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana;">Jounery through bus was good, no sign of rain only clouds. One uncle bought mouth organ with him and played very nice old songs like "hai apna dil to awara.. " quite amazing. We had breakfast on the way and reached the base village within one and half hour. We started the trek, lost the way as always while going up. Some enthusiatic uncle's in there 40's found the way somehow , trek was quite easy except one slope which we had to cross carefully. We all reached the top of fort helping each other after two hours.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-hg6qyW_M1WuLOoWVWUG5hgbnpB_Hvy_AUjVEXgrdpjyf23Zr5ATQtma_tNvu9GZw1mQD16igj0DkB1W8JwP6LFRQM2RmgNVXRolOz4Dwq-DBL2g09POWdMIYLnlPeU_tSdBBSZOtLfE/s1600-h/IMG_4041.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img $r="true" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-hg6qyW_M1WuLOoWVWUG5hgbnpB_Hvy_AUjVEXgrdpjyf23Zr5ATQtma_tNvu9GZw1mQD16igj0DkB1W8JwP6LFRQM2RmgNVXRolOz4Dwq-DBL2g09POWdMIYLnlPeU_tSdBBSZOtLfE/s320/IMG_4041.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everyone had the look of fort and had food together. Best thing is everyone used to share food with each other, its like lot of different dishes. Fort was small just having some remains and one old shiva temple. After some time we all started descending down from the fort, within one and half hour we reached the base of village. Nilesh took some amazing pics of the surrondings with his High-End Camera, Sandeep was sharing his stories of past trek. </span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana;"></span></strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIGEU1Smq2MzVopW6tDiWkTixWBsFiIRAiSz1WszO5fROvZpyo2hPnYyByBwjPjlgyQg10FETXIyt9Em2edomXmRxBCXdR1AQd9oRGbj4zjmECnRNRXIg1tPNpYoA8IaCrOtayaT0dpPk/s1600-h/IMG_4104.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img $r="true" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIGEU1Smq2MzVopW6tDiWkTixWBsFiIRAiSz1WszO5fROvZpyo2hPnYyByBwjPjlgyQg10FETXIyt9Em2edomXmRxBCXdR1AQd9oRGbj4zjmECnRNRXIg1tPNpYoA8IaCrOtayaT0dpPk/s320/IMG_4104.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana;">We started back by bus again, antakshari on Full-On. We had snacks while coming back. Vairatgad Trek was quite pleasent, made loads of friends.</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana;">-Jyotin</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div>Jyotin Prachandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096233113896663950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862352352391101554.post-25541099100377672382009-10-08T03:49:00.000-07:002009-10-08T23:49:08.434-07:00Torna.. The Unforgettable!!!<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Torna.. was a very special and unforgettable trek in every sense!!!</span></strong><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana;">A brief history first, Torna got its name from Toran which means door hanging used @ the top of door. Since this is highest fort in Pune region it is referred as Toran. Another name of Torna is "Prachandgad" because of its vastness and from here my surname "Prachand" came, so i have special attachment to the fort. Torna was one of the very first forts captured by Great Shivaji Maharaj, he found huge gold in this fort which he used for renovation of other forts plus building some new forts.</span></strong><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After coming to Pune i was searching for a group who arrange the Treks, finally found one as Trekdi Group. We (Me, Salil, Anoop and Guru) decided to go for Torna trek organised by Trekdi Group. Salil came down from mumbai to my place on saturday eve, trek was on sunday. Sunday Morning, we were all excited about going on trek with a group and i was with added excitment to see the fort which belong to my forefathers .. :). We reached FC Road the meeting point where trekdi group has arranged a private bus, condition of bus was OK. It was mixed feeling when we first time signed a paper saying "I am responsible for myself if anything happens to me on Trek" and providing a emergency number if anything happens, we all were looking at each other :).</span></strong><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just FYI we decided to put all the stuff we needed in a one single Bag which Anoop carried while going up and i carried while descending down. Also as an safety measure me and salil switched off our mobiles and kept it in a polythin packed and then in a Bag. We reached the base village after more than hour travelling, had breakfast there. Climate was bit cloudy and we were all excited. There were around 40 people including the trekdi members. Pinakin (leading the Trek) divided the the complete group into four subgroup headed by each trekdi member and then we take off.</span></strong><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana;">We started the Trek, surroundings were pleasent all waterfalls and small streams of water. We walked around 30 mins and sunddenly our group leader told us that we are on wrong way, then pointed a Tree far away on a different part of mountain and told us we have to go towards the tree actual way goes from there. Now this was the starting bcoz there was no way to reach there and we had to go through a slope which was sleepry and nothing to hold except the bushes which were coming in hand once you hold them. That was scarrry.. somehow we all madeup and reached to the way near that pointed tree. Then again we walked for some time and then came a ridge joining the mountains. There was nothing on both the side of ridge just a thin way on it and air was flowing like anything, it was scary plus adventurous we took some snaps and crossed the ridge.</span></strong><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana;">After crossing the ridge we moved again after taking some rest, we walked a lot. Then came a rocky patch, that was most difficult point of the entire trek, really you need lot of guts to cross that because there is nothing behind, only silent valley. We started crossing the patch one by one at a time five people on patch one behind another.. when i was about to cross that patch i put a hand on a stone between to cross the patch and that stone came down and all the four people behind me shouted at there fullest. Thankfully no one was hurt and we all crossed the patch. Then we crossed the huge rocky steps and finally reached the fort, it took more then 3 hrs to reach there.</span></strong><br />
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<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA2_c1UTZr9UNs6q4QEjPRMZYsx7toHdjSdRAccBSXc4Df1IVHpV35aMRo-RMAqMtBh9Kdlu2ysLID_lSmPz-Qukk5BE_9RNfe6OEk4JYZbWgHHEtFs0Eq0mGCw3SVJwuUQU4nTG0Nh2A/s1600-h/DSC00043.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272646755659453730" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA2_c1UTZr9UNs6q4QEjPRMZYsx7toHdjSdRAccBSXc4Df1IVHpV35aMRo-RMAqMtBh9Kdlu2ysLID_lSmPz-Qukk5BE_9RNfe6OEk4JYZbWgHHEtFs0Eq0mGCw3SVJwuUQU4nTG0Nh2A/s320/DSC00043.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 240px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 320px;" /></a><strong><span style="color: #333333;">we reached alibaug arnd 12:30 and had some snacks there.. nothing much to see in alibag apart from one fort (not in good condition) .. so we moved to Kashid.</span></strong><br />
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<div align="justify"><strong><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLiUJR82I1Je94qRwH69UCXDMyrOqWGpFq_TinZOlWeFjTNyz8k3TfwVrL4ylwZalDoPpQ-N-oy5T4PFbPVtYt2xUgXkMHWmAZucZdqHnxcoTpOokA7EhEMPH93z0eJEKOfGPYdL9xl-4/s1600-h/DSC00063.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272643507213579330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLiUJR82I1Je94qRwH69UCXDMyrOqWGpFq_TinZOlWeFjTNyz8k3TfwVrL4ylwZalDoPpQ-N-oy5T4PFbPVtYt2xUgXkMHWmAZucZdqHnxcoTpOokA7EhEMPH93z0eJEKOfGPYdL9xl-4/s320/DSC00063.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a> </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #333333;">Kashid is a beach 10-12 kms from alibag.. its the best beach in that area. We spent fun filled and enjoyable 2 hrs @ Kashid and it was my first time i saw sea in real so that feeling is un-explanable. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #333333;">> Journey from Alibaug to Kashid and then to Murud.. the road is Awesome and full of coconut trees on both side.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #333333;">> Masti time @ Kashid Beach.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #333333;">>Boat ride to and from Janjira Fort.</span></strong><br />
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<div><div><div><strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;">i spent almost 18 years @ vidisha and have lot of unforgetable memories with this place. My School days in Trinity Convent and SSL Jain higher scondary were completly funfilled. Never forget those "Attending Coaching Days" of 11th n 12th.. :-) .. almost four coaching classes per day out of which half of them we have bunked... complete "Fokataiiii"..</span></strong></div><br />
<div><strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;">Brief Intro of Vidisha: Vidisha or Besnagar or Bhelsa is near to Bhopal (Capital of Madhya Pradesh) around 40 Mins by Train (If any work is not going on the railway line between) or 1:30 Hrs by Bus (If the Bus driver or conductor is not stopping bus @ every other place for "CHAI kinda there petrol" :-)). Vidisha is a historic place with lot of Famous Monuments in and around it. Lets take u to Beautiful Places arnd this Very Beautiful City:- </span></strong></div><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;">Sanchi - Sanchi is alsmost 10 Kms from Vidisha famous for its Stupas.</span></strong></div></div><br />
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<div><strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;">Udaygiri - Udaygiri is 4-5 Kms from vidisha city famous for its caves. Lot of beautiful stone carvings are there. Most famous is Varaha Statue.</span></strong></div><br />
<div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272259804934162610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLgCkZbNkl27YWthkNeLvGahN45uRIW_d8BHWrnytnwSaCZM32XZ2v-0PNLhyphenhyphenDPm9D2oJnd03eoSIDBfVXZJRFSi9f42G0gwWWDhPFoW1glqmeDXoTRGmkMkWVyI32dANmkELr8xfLq4c/s320/IMG_0263.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;">Gyaraspur - Gyaraspur is 30-35 Kms from Vidisha famous for MalaDevi Temple and other stone structures.</span></strong><br />
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<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272261794985356002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRzEMkcB4FBdU7GFjI7_07XwXzVaIgJq1yxHF5-sOrcGnv1Pv5LO8ay7LJMrojevYp5XbsqBxxfFkpJ9Ru9AMhmFUlaRIUINXy6RYHL6tHxl4C6ls5tRf2nwDQzHRxZESaE9qVeYpMAuI/s320/IMG_0374.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong><span style="color: #666666;">You will say what about famous places in Vidisha.. Well !!! come to vidisha and you will find your's secret famous place.. :-)</span></strong><br />
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<div></div></div></div></div></div>Jyotin Prachandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096233113896663950noreply@blogger.com1