Living Diagonally In My Parallel World!

On 22nd December 2006 all of us (the entire family) were at Maval Shrusti. http://www.mavalsrushti.com/ Aditya and Akshay - These guys enjoyed the most! Its like a private mini hill station. It is situated at a very convenient distance from Pune. It lies in the vicinity of the scenic Pavna dam and the Tamhini forest. From Pune, one has to proceed to the PAUD village, via the well known 'Chandani Chowk' and Pirangut road. After reaching the Paud bus terminus, a right turn followed by a compact road leads the visitor to the Kolwan village. An arch sign naming Kolwan village is easily visible. Crossing the arch and following the steep road leads the visitor straight Maval Srushti. The total distance from Pune is close to 40 kilometers. We took Appa's and my car. Before going to Maval Srushti one has to do booking else the place may get full and they may not allow inside. One of the forest trail - There ought to be more posts indicating directions. The Concept of Maval Srushti...

This is about our visit to Thoseghar. This trip was also unplanned as most of our other trips. We left at 7.30am in our Indica Turbo DLG. Satara is about 2 hours drive from Pune. Sajjangad another 30 mins beyond , followed by Thoseghar another 20 mins and Chalkewadi further 20mins. We took the Aundh - Pashan - Chandani Chowk - bypass highway through the new Katraj tunnel and then on the Mumbai - Bangalore highway. Enroute we filled up diesel at the Reliance outlet. The entire road is in excellent condition and full marks to the authorities. We entered Satara at about 9.30 am. Since we diddn't know the directions to Sajjangad we asked the locals and got prompt reply. We took the road to the Rajwada and reached the chowk that has the miniature Effiel Tower. Here there is an arch that tells the direction to Thoseghar, Sajjangad and Chalewadi. We followd the road till we reached the "Bogda". This is a very small tunnel in the mountain. Took a right turn and were on the route ...

From Dive Agar we decided to go to Hari Hareshwar. Actually this trip was decided at the spur of the moment and was not planned. Infact we did not have any maps with us and made a couple of wrong turns. That added to the mileage marginally. Here are the Odometer readings and places enroute to Hari Hareshwar Odometer reading .... Place 9043 .......................Start from Dive Agar at 9.30am 9047 .......................Asuf (pronounced as (Aasoof) 9049 .......................Dandguri 9054 .......................Shikhne 9055 .......................Bhardoli 9059 .......................Arathi (pronounced as Aaraathi). This is in Shrivardhan. We missed the left turn to Hari Hareshwar here. It is an unmarked turn almost a U-turn to left. 9066 .......................Ranavli 9069 .......................Malsure 9070 .......................Nigde 9073 .......................Saigaon 9080 .......................Hari Hareshwar. For going to the Hari Hareshwar mandir take a right turn as soon as y...

Hi, We had been to Dive Agar and Hari Hareshwar on the weekend of 16th Feb 07. Here is the travel related information. We followed the Pune - Paud - Mushi - Tamhini - Mangao - Mhasala - Dive Agar - Shrivardhan - Hari Hareshwar route. A total of 165kms till Dive Agar and another 40 odd kms till Hari Hareshwar. One note though. There is mobile coverage only upto Tamhini ghat. Thereafter the coverage/range comes and goes (if that is the right way to describe it!) . However BSNL has good coverage in Dive Agar. Also pack in a few candles and torches as there is daily load shedding upto 8.30pm in Dive Agar. The intention of this blog is to help others understand directions as well as the distance. The distance readings are in the sequence of Odometer reading followed by name of the place. Odometer reading .... Places 8869 ............................Started from Aundh at 6.30 am 8922 ............................Stopped at Quick Bite, Mulshi for tea. The roads is pretty good till this point....