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...
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...
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 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...
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...
drive / lonavala / monsoon / mulshi / nature / river / view point / waterfall
by Rajaram Sethuraman · Published Aug 3, 2016
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...
drive / monsoon / nature / view point / walk / waterfall
by Rajaram Sethuraman · Published Aug 11, 2014 · Last modified Jul 5, 2016
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...
drive / mahabaleshwar / monsoon / mulshi / nature / panchgani / travel / view point / waterfall
by Rajaram Sethuraman · Published Jul 5, 2013 · Last modified Oct 2, 2014
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...
drive / monsoon / nature / view point / waterfall
by Rajaram Sethuraman · Published Jun 14, 2013 · Last modified Jul 5, 2016
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...
beach / drive / fort / heritage / konkan / lonavala / nature / pune city / summary / temple / trek / view point / walk / waterfall
by Rajaram Sethuraman · Published Jan 2, 2012 · Last modified Oct 2, 2014
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 / nature / view point / waterfall
by Rajaram Sethuraman · Published Aug 30, 2011 · Last modified Jun 13, 2016
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...
drive / flowers / nature / view point / walk / waterfall
by Rajaram Sethuraman · Published Sep 27, 2010 · Last modified Aug 4, 2015
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...
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