Shivtharghal.. Place where Dasboth was written!!!

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.

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.

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.

We waited for bus but not a single bus came for Pune. Atlast we gave up and moved towards Mahad in the hope of getting bus from there. We reached Mahad by shared vehicle, climate was amazing since it was rainy season. We waited at Mahad bus stand for a while and thankfully got a bus for Pune. We were back in Pune at around 9Pm. Shivtharghal is special because very less people knows about this place so no tourists, this place is worth a Visit.

-Jyotin