Mumbai Weekend Getaways/Daytrips
The weekend getaways near Mumbai are very versatile in nature. They cater to all kinds of travellers whether be it solo, couple or family. There are hundreds of locations around Mumbai to spend one or two quaint days. The city slickers of Mumbai often yearns for a weekend break. The long Konkan coastline ensures a vast choice of beaches. The rugged Western Ghats ensures hill stations. The people in Mumbai looks forward to the monsoon season to enjoy the breathe-taking greenery. The hills and seas both are equally beautiful and all weekend getaways near Mumbai become heavenly beautiful during monsoon.
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Kalavantin Durg Trek : The Unplanned Day Trek in The Sahayadris
We never venture out without doing proper research. Our love for research is so great that we may equate the happiness we get out of it with the happiness while doing the actual travel. But, our experience on the Kalavantin Durg trek was different. It was spontaneous, and we had very little idea of what to expect! Where is Kalavantin Durg? Panvel is a suburb of Mumbai, India. It is well connected with Mumbai through local trains. The trail to Kalavantin Durg starts from a village named Thakurwadi. Thakurwadi is about 45 minutes away from Panvel. Auto-rickshaws from Panvel railway station charge near about INR 300 for a one way…
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A Guide to Daulatabad Fort and The Fishy Case of The Lost Guidebook
“Put the Daulatabad Fort guidebook in the bag,” I directed Sayan. “Oh don’t worry it is safe with me,” Sayan replied back. I knew he was right. Sayan is one of the messiest persons when it comes to organising stuff but it’s no less than magic how he never loses a thing. We know each other from 2009 and he has never lost anything. “Eid- Mubarak.” We greeted our auto driver. As promised by him, he returned after performing the morning namaz in the mosque on the holy day of Eid. We had booked his vehicle, a three wheeler auto, to take us to the Daulatabad Fort and wait there…
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Bibi-ka-Maqbara —The Aurangabad Taj Mahal, a south Indian twin of the Taj
“Allah-hu-Akbar-Allah”. “Allah-hu-Akbar-Allah”. The sound blared somewhere outside. I rubbed my eyes and pulled myself out of bed. The ticking hands of the wristwatch reminded me it was our last few hours in the hotel, and in the city. We were scheduled to visit the Aurangabad Taj Mahal. My sleepy head husband looked at me with beady eyes. “Come on get ready, we can’t give in to sleep” I said. In a few minutes we were both ready to set out on the auspicious day of Eid to see with our own eyes what ‘a bad copy of Taj Mahal’ (as described by the internet) would look like. Time For History…
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Treebo Admiral Suites Aurangabad — Hotel review
When Yatra.com offered us a discount coupon, we used it as quickly as possible to book our stay at Treebo Admiral suites Aurangabad. We were aware that Aurangabad would be very demanding a place. After whole days of exploring the UNESCO World Heritage sites and absorbing loads of historical data we were sure to need a calm place to retreat in and sleep the nights away without spending a bomb. Treebo is a chain of hotels which has earned quite a name for itself in the Indian budget accommodation market. The reason behind the nomenclature ‘Treebo’ has an interesting explanation. The hotel chain derives inspiration from the ‘Bo tree’, commonly…
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Ajanta Ellora tour : A Travelogue-cum-guide to the Ellora Caves of India
The sleeper bus dropped us off at Baba Petrol Pump, a bus stop in Aurangabad at 7.15 AM for our Ajanta Ellora tour. It was an eight hours long journey but we were not complaining! For both of us it was our first tryst with a ‘sleeper bus’ and the ‘luxury service’ received in reality exceeded our expectation. Blessed by Amazon.in, we had received a couple of Yatra.com discount vouchers. Using those we booked ourselves a decent hotel in Aurangabad, but, the location turned out to be quite a distance away from both the MSRTC bus stand and the Aurangabad Railway Station. Enroute to our hotel, the auto-driver tried his…
