Myself and few of my friends planned to visit nearby tourist spot of Mumbai last year and we finally decided to go Panchgani & Mahabaleshwar.One of our Senior colleague , Santhosh Sir has offered to bring his car , and transporation problem was solved.With little planning , we started our journey.
It was difficult to wake up early in the morning.But we managed and started our journey.It was uncomfortable for us in the back seat because 3 of them were finding space to sit and we didnt realise that it will be uncomfortable for 3 persons to sit in the back of maruti 800.It was not a problem when sleep overpowered us.Santhosh Sir was showing his skill riding at more than 100 kmph.He is an expert in driving.
Our plan was to go through Pune Goa Highway and reach Panchgani.We enjoyed the scenery and on that day due to some blockage , the traffic was diverted to some other road which was a narrow one. It was a thrilling drive on that road.
We were not sure about the route and we were searching for the mile stone on the road to see the direction for Panchgani.We got it and we were on the right way.After refreshment we reached Panchgani.
Santhosh Sir was more energetic, may be he came alone .Pawan was exploring the new poses for photos.Thanks to Digital Camera, otherwise we may shortage of film roles because of Madhumohan. Vishnu performed some acts while posing.
Everyone got the curse of horses too.We have horse ride , ofcourse with the support of horsemen .Each one of us have taken a photograph showing us controlling and commanding horse. Not only Santhosh Sir, the horse too rode with atmost fear while Sir was riding.
After some time we went to see a lake nearby and it was a wrong decision from myself.Others blamed me since we could not find lake , it was around 4 pm and we didnt have our lunch.I can say that we enjoyed the ride through villages since it was a break for us from the city .No pollution, no crowd.After having our lunch very late , we decided to move on to Mahabaleshwar.
We reached Mahabaleshwar in the night.I had a good sleep in the car.We tried to take room in departmental inspection quarters.We told the staff on duty that our Santhosh Sir is a DGM and he has to be allotted room. But unfortunately , there were no rooms.Finally we got one .It will be better to enquire about rooms , charges and fix the trip rather than searching at the last moment as we did.Any how it was an unplanned trip .
In the morning we had a boating ride.If one sees pedalling boat , it creates enthusiasm to ride.Since most of us have rode these pedal boats already , we opted for a row boat with a boatman.Also it is difficult to ride on a pedal boat for long period.A half an hour ride is enough.Otherwise it will make u tired. We tried our skill by rowing the boat one by one.
Mahabaleshwar has certain sceneries which are unique.By visiting all the hill points , one may get bored.The one hill point which comes to my mind is the one in which you can see the birds eye view of the dam .We had a visit to Strawberry farm and had strawberry juice.Pawan enjoyed the trip very much.Madhu Mohan too knew driving , and he had driven for around 50 kms.We departed very late from Mahabaleshwar and Santhosh Sir, rehearsed well so that he can convince bhabhi about being late.
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