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Tulja Bhavani Devi , Tuljapur            The ecology of Maharashtra comes alive during rainy season, be it hilly region or the plain lands everything just springs up green all around. Another such gift that this state has got is the locations of the important temples, most of them have tourist attractions around or just the journey is so satisfying.             All our recent short trips have been quite religious and all of them were spontaneous ones. We visited Bhimashankar , Ramdara Temple ,  Swaminarayan Temple and now visited 2 Shaktipeeth amongst three and half shaktipeeth present in Maharashtra -  Tuljabhavani Devi, Tuljapur  Mahalakshmi Devi,Kolhapur             We covered them on separate occasion so I will cover Tuljapur temple details in this post and come up with a separate post for Kolhapur Mahalakshm...

Bhimashankar Jyotirlinga   Bhimashankar Temple Shikhara(photo taken from social platform) Isn't there some magic in rainy season? Nature urges you to step out of your house and experience the greenery it spreads. With so much crowd nowadays at every tourist spots during rainy season, one has to think twice before travelling.  But you don't need to think twice when it comes to faith. We visited the 6th Jyotirlinga in Maharashtra- Bhimashankar temple on 28th July .There are total 12 jyotirlinga across India. A temple hidden in the midst of a lush green Bhimashankar Wildlife sanctuary.    How to reach Bhimashankar Temple from Pune We were travelling from Wagholi in Pune to Bhimashankar and google map showed us 3 different ways. I got guidance on best route from a group on social platform and reached the following decision. Distance between Pune to Bhimashankar The distance from Pune(Wagholi) to Bhimashankar is about 125km and takes approximatel...

Here I am with yet another blog on my latest short and sweet weekend road trip.This time the destination was Mahabaleshwar/Pachgani , though I had been earlier to this place but I decided to pen it down this time. Mahabaleshwar/Pachgani have been favorite spots not only for people living in Pune or Mumbai but even all over the country.Most of them, who are from Pune go even for a days trip, leaving early morning and get back at night.But to be frank I think to admire the beauty of place you should at least have 1 night spent here, so you have 2 days to be spent. As usual we were gang of 4 who always are ready to travel and we had decided to trip on silent weekend rather than long weekend which attracts too much crowd and then you loose the sanctity of the place. We started early morning to avoid the highway tra...

Camping at Bhandardara    Its such rare occasion to see shooting stars in city, but what if you could see them all night long.Yes this is place to be in, vicinity of Bhandardara dam.A place close to  Nashik(around 60km) and 70km from Kasara railway station.  We had decided to go for camping to this site on our first anniversary, a bit surprising isn't it? Well we wanted to go for short and best trip possible to experience silence under the open sky and what better place could it be than one of the most visited site by sky watchers. There are many camping groups who have facilities to this site, so we decided to go with one such group.We started off from Pune to Mumbai to go along with the group from there onward.One would need to catch Kasara local from there on else they can directly reach from Pune to the site which is much easier.From Kasara station there are several taxis waiting for you to ...