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Matheran Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Matheran, India
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Forested area near Mumbai and Vashind
Pristine area near Vashind, on the flip side of the Tansa Sanctuary About one hours drive from Bombay along NH3, depending of course on traffic conditions, is a small road on the left side of the highway near ...
Matheran Hill Railway
... MTDC etc. The following are extracts from the Govt. gazette, and a rail enthusiasts description of the journey. Matheran Hill Light Railway. From: http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/KOLABA/comm_railways.html [Kolaba District Gazetteer ...
The abyss that was Neral
Saturday 18th September We'd read about getting to Neral and then heading to Matheran. This place has no vehicles at all and the only modes of transport are horse, bike and hand pulled rickshaws. It was meant to be a bit of an oasis and lovely place to ...
Pride of Matheran - Memecylon Umbellatum
... that we saw in bloom certainly did not disappoint. This winter is definitely not cold by any stretch of the imagination. Matheran certainly is much cooler and undoubtedly fresher than Mumbai, but it would be nice to have a proper winter! Here are ...
Dirty Feet and Monkeys
The girls made it. Janet and Joc. After a lot of readjustment of housing and money we decided to hit it to Matheran. Matheran is a hill station near Mumbai... Most of the city retreats there during the summer to get away from the heat. My interest in ...
Matheran - First Monsoon Visit of 2010
... magically transform the countryside into verdant shades of green. Clouds hovered around Prabal mountain en route to Matheran Matheran has a permanent cover of mist during the monsoons. Here is a monkey on the misty cliff: ...
Matheran - September 2010
Another visit to Matheran, balm for the soul, nature's little paradise so close to big, bad Mumbai. Matheran's most popular residents: The road climbing the ghats, seen from Mt Barry. Poor, overburdened pack horse at Dasturi Naka. It is ...
January Surprise in Matheran
... about! Interesting. Another new discovery was the early blooming of Memecylon Umbellatum, a common forest tree on the Matheran hill top - locally called Anjani. These are unusual clumps of purple flowers growing along the ...
September visit to the monsoon forests
The monsoon wildflower season is on in full swing. On this visit, the forest floor was carpeted with the pretty purple root parasite - Aeginetia indica of the Orobanchaceae family. Glorious Glory Lilies - Gloriosa ...
First Monsoon Visit of 2011 - 9 July 2011
... pretty yellow lilies - Hypoxis aurea with a solitary white cluster of Single Leaf Habenaria - Habenaria grandifloriformis, a typical Matheran orchid Memecylon fruits and a late flowering tree. Usually Memecylon umbellatum is in ...
Matheran - monsoon day trips to wildflower country
... Matheran with proper labels, tags and descriptions, please see http://www.flickriver.com/photos/tags/snonymous%2CMatheran/interesting/ Matheran is a wildflower lovers paradise. For anyone in Mumbai wanting a few hours walk through forested trails ...
Early Monsoon Forest Flora - Mahuli foothills
The monsoons have started early this year, in the first week of June 2011. The forests at the foothills of Mahuli, a part of the Tansa WLS, are a good place to see early monsoon flora such as the various lilies. We were not disappointed, in ...
November visit to Matheran
... at Dasturi car park. By now the car park was over full, more so than we have seen before. Aircraft flying over Matheran This has to be the most amusing political banner - seen at Shedung just before entering the Expressway to Mumbai: ...
Mid monsoon visit to Matheran - August 2010
Mid August visit to the Matheran grasslands of Mt Barry and Governor's Hill. Misty path and overgrown trail Tangled lianas along the trail Mist swirling in over the grasslands Pink carpets of neanotis montholoni with the occasional balsam ...
Intialaisissa haissa ja kotimajoituksessa
No niin...Eihan siihen mennytkaan kuin vaivaiset pari tuntia loytaa internet. Hyva aamulenkki! Monet ohjasivat meidat tiettyihin hotelleihin ja viimeisen hotellin mies lausahti itsevarmasti: ei ole nettia koko Materanissa. Kysyimme:Oletko varma? Kaikki ...
An enjoyable walk to Garbut Point - August 2012
Another monsoon day trip to Matheran, this time to Garbut Point. The Garbut trail which was previously heavily overgrown in stretches with karvy shrubs, has now been cleared and it was an easy walk. The mist crept in so there were no ...
Perfect Last Stop in India, Jay's 30th Birthday
... dinner back at our hotel. Seriously, what a way to celebrate a 30th birthday...thanks Kate. Matheran was the best way we could have finished India. A completely pedestrian hill station; they don't even allow bicycles. Just horses. ...
Matheran
... of eight hundred metres, we had a great climate for walking and once again horse riding. There are no vehicles allowed in Matheran - it's illegal - and so this 'jungle topped' village is pollution free, both of fumes and noise. Horse riding was Fun, Fun, ...
The onset of the monsoons 2010
Snapshots from forests contiguous to the Tansa Wildlife Sanctuary, in Thane district, Maharashtra. The monsoons have just about begun, the forest floor is carpeted with lilies, the river beds are still dry. It will all change soon with a few ...
Walk by the silent trees ...
... Point View. The rooms were comfortable.. that too with a small balcony. The best thing about Matheran is its purity... no pollution, no traffic... all you have to do is just watch and walk. Feb was ...
Matheran, Maharashtra
A 2 hour local train ride to Neral Junction and a 30 min shared taxi to Matheran hill ...
Early July trip to the forests near Tansa
A 6 a.m. start on a Saturday morning gave us a traffic free run to the forests near Tansa - 1 hour and 20min including the halt at Alfa Dhaba, a trucker's stop on NH3 to pack our breakfast, some most delicious parathas. The sky was grey and ...
Matheran - Floral Paradise
... a smooth drive with little traffic. General information: Matheran is a densely forested plateau at approximately 700m AMSL, ...
Matheran-Mahabaleshwar-Panchagani
... to Pune and a train from there to Hyderabad and my sister's family went in their car to Mumbai. I liked Matheran very much.Mahabaleshwar is OK.The forests around Matheran and Mahabaleshwar are not as dense as we find in Western ...
Bossed by the monkeys
Matheran - a hill station for Mumbaikers who want to escape the heat. A table top mountain range affording dramatic views over the plains 800 meters below. Accessible only by narrow guage toy train that winds at walking pace along the sheer ...
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