Divadhar Hotel Matheran

... If you stay a couple of days, you can explore even more, for there are different species of flora in different areas of Matheran.

We have been 8 times so far in 2009, day trips on 18 July, 8 August, an overnight trip on 29-30 August, another day trip on 6 September , again on 8 October, 17 October [Deepavali], 24 October and 7 November.

On all ...

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... in the "Time Out" guide, and which had all subsequently closed down, we finally managed to find a decent café for some supper. (We were later informed by Tina that restaurants come and go pretty frequently here as the owners either lose their licence, go bankrupt or do a runner). We walked back to our hotel along the bustling Colaba Causeway, busy with Indians, tourists and rats bigger than bull terriers (to quote a line from ...

... in a surfeit of annoying flies, making it difficult to linger in peace. Mid afternoon brought us back to Panorama Point, this time at a leisurely pace to bask in the profusion of wildflowers, insects and a beautiful sunset. On our way down to Mumbai the next morning, we stopped at the top most railway intersection [there are 5 in all] on the Dasturi Neral ghat road, and walked up the tracks for about 2 ...

... forest that grew on the steep shelves between the rock faces. On one such shelf, where one could look over the edge and count several sweeps of the track, the train paused at its second crossing loop - Waterpipe. A couple of hairpin bends later it came out on a narrow sidling on the lip of a cliff that fell vertical for several hundred feet, with more views of narrow gauge rails doubling back and up way below and of a long broad gauge train crawling through Neral station, but with the ...

... and entered a bar by the name of Henry Thams. It was modern, well done out and the service was fantastic. Catherine's mojito cost 500 rupees (£8.00), I had a beer. We sat at the bar and chatted. As we got to the end of our drinks Catherine nipped off to the loo, and I said I'd collect the bill. A Sikh man of about 60 years came in and stood next to me at the bar. He spoke to the bar staff in excellent English, with only a hint of an Indian accent. It ...

... some land on the top of the ridge where a 'tree house' machan has been erected and some horticultural work is in progress. We stopped here and made enquiries with a pleasant young man Kuriakose, who invited us to visit his small plantation Valley View Gardens [91 9446926833] right next door - also with its own tree house machan. Valley View Gardens is simple compared to fancier plantations, but with an unparalleled view. Kuriakose took us ...

... the price of my room by a massive 5 Pounds / night. The bathroom is outside but that means 40 Pounds saved at the end of my stay in Mumbai (40 Pounds can be a weekly budget in Varanasi). M'man, Gerard and I are having a good time here I think. There is definitely a feel of cote d'azur in this place and it's good to just walk around, feeling the city through the mix of Indian, British and everyone else's history. We visited all the main ...

... meant that we showed up in Mumbai on a Monday night, which was going to limit our choices a bit but then we were staying in Colaba, the 'trendy hang-out for the city's rich young things' and where 'the majority of foreign visitors head first' so we felt confident that we would be partying until the early hours with a mixture of natives and fellow travellers. Now, in a culture where you get some choice as to who you marry, nightlife is a fairly important part of the ...

... here, it wasn't luxury in the tradition sense, but Kate and I both agreed it was the perfect ending to our six weeks in India. It was simple, sweet and romantic. Even when we returned to our room each day covered in red dirt, we smiled and laughed. There were minimal and only very brief power outages, but no Internet. Lots of Indian weekend trippers, always a good sign that we are touring a good place, and the best desert in India (see pic). See you all in Thailand!