PANHALA – WALK IN THE CLOUDS

Travel Date: 18th & 19th July, 2009

No of travelers: 4

Type of Trip: Leisure

Mode of Transport: Car

Approx Expense: 6000/- for 2

Best suitable for: Friends, Family
ROUTE
Day 1: Pune - Satara - Kini - Warana Nagar - Panhala (250km)
NH 4 rocks….I think that’s enough to describe the road. Adding to this even the interior road that we took from Kini to Panhala was good. We reached in some 4 hours but with almost 2 breaks for food.

Day 2: Panhala - Kolhapur - Satara - Medha Ghat - Panchgani - Wai - Pune (320km)
Excellent roads as it was again my fav NH4…. But for that matter even the Medha ghat was very beautiful with numerous waterfalls to enjoy on the way back. Mahabaleshwar and back to pune via Wai was as usual a good drive.

STAY
Mahalaxmi Resort (MTDC approved), Panhala
For Booking Contact Phone No. (02328) 235333
Mobile No. +91 9422046609, +91 9422415444

Good place with lots of place to move around in the resort area itself. Not very clean…but we could manage as we were out most of the time. They have Standard Rooms, Family Rooms and even a bunglow for larger groups. We didn’t had food at that place…instead explored some ‘Khanaval’ around for typical kolhapuri food.


EARNING
• It feels very exciting to stay on a fort, with its old styled buildings around, the stone boundaries….monuments of that era.
• The most romantic climate we ever experienced…completely misty and foggy…with small showers.
• Spent good moments with friends as it was a after a long time that we had gone for outing together.

LEARNING
• Actually we had planned to go to Pavankhind the next day…but decided to skip as it was raining heavily there and the roads were also not very good. And then we spent some time in deciding what should be our alternative way to reach pune. Without any difference of opinion we decided to reach Mapro garden by evening…and visit the Kolhapur temple in afternoon. (But just imagine if we had not come down on one single decision) So the moral of the story is always go with a back-up plan.