Pah Hill Panchgani

... Chor Darwaja, Pali Darwaja, Gunjavane Darwaja, Daru Kothar (storage of arms and ammunition), Diwankhana, Rajwada (ruins), Ghod Tale (Horse Lake), Sadar (office) and Dhalkathi (flag hoisting place).

Sanjeevani Machee (southwest/west end)

This huge, beautiful and royally constructed machee faces west and has a three-stepped (layered) fortified structure. Each of the lower levels is separated from ...

Staying here for the week-end.
What to do (except for the obvious)? Relax, breath, go for a camel or horse ride on proud breed "Thar Marwari (meaning "Desert Warrior". Half full blood arab and half turkish breed and the only horse breed in the world who can turn their ears ...

This was a welcome break with friends Whilst there; apart from spending time enjoying the company, relaxing with friends, appreciating the cooler climate and atmosphere, I also got to have a go at paragliding. This has got to be the ...

... Dhnyanesh said that they served good missal pav, so I ordered that. It was indeed good. After a hot cup of tea we proceeded towards Pacchapur. We reached Thakurwadi village at around 10:00 AM. After a brief round of introductions the trek began. Nimesh was leading this trek. I met him for the first time. Unlike the talkative Dhnyanesh, he appeared to be a quiet type. The last trek I went on was to Silonda during the monsoon. The weather was much cooler then. In ...

Yayyy I have officially cycled in India!!! haha. From a hill station situated about 70 miles outside Pune, called Mahabaleshwar... it was mostly downhill, buttt it was great to go for a ride!! Rode ...

... 7 AM the bus started and I looked around to see the first rays of the sun and the first leg of our holiday taking shape...tired of our previous nights journey we slept off and around 9 we saw that were almost reaching Panchagani which was 20 kms from Mahabaleshwar..we got down at Mahabaleshwar around 930.. Mahabaleshwar The first thing that struck me about the place was that there were around 30-40 small hotels in that place and though we ...

... quieter here. When I arrived there was a power cut so I had to walk up 6 flights with my 70 pounds of luggage. Several rests later I was there/here. It was great exercise. So I had dinner with the family at sister N.'s house (this is hard without using names). Since there was no power I played some videos on my laptop using the battery. Sister N's son got very excited when there was a certain actor on and began to perform the ...

... to the Le Meredien Hotel which was actually pretty close to my hotel. It was all marble and fancy. I had some trouble finding the right restaurant as there are three there. I had the buffet. Wow. Beef Wellington and chicken in a creme sauce. Chocolate truffle brownies. I nearly wept. The maitre'd asked me if I enjoyed my meal. I don't think he understood when I said it almost made me cry. He said, "So was it good?" "No, no ...

... when they both appeared--laughing with each other. The story went like this: the daughter went into the bushes to go to the bathroom and stepped on something squishy. When she figured out what it was she abandoned her shoes and her pants and went into the bazaar looking for new pants and shoes. Finding them both for a good price. Luckily she had been wearing tights underneath and this attire was not out of place at the bazaar. I took this as an ...

... up again and several people were looking right at me as if they knew me. And then I saw the lady with the baby I had been playing peekaboo with earlier and so had a sigh of relief. The road from Mumbai climbs up and up. At one point we could see a rather deep canyon with some pretty high waterfalls. The vegetation reminds me of Texas--around Graham (my Dad's hometown) but maybe a few more trees. But the topography is a ...