After spending quite time in the Shrivardhan,our next destination was Panchgani. We got early in the morning,had a tea, loaded luggage on bikes and we’re ready to go. We were riding on beachside roads and we couldn’t resist to ride our bikes into the beach and do some beach riding.
Shrivardhan to Panchgani is 140kms journey which covers beautiful roads and engrossing ghat section.When we started our ride it was raining a bit.Riding through small roads surrounded by trees overwhelmed us in a whole different way.
We decided to ride all the way to Panchgani without having any breaks,but we cant resist to click some pictures in the ghat.
We booked chalet tent in Sherbaug luxury tents resort. We reached Panchgani at 12.00pm.About the resort,it is located in Panchgani and it consists of villas, Chalet tents,tree houses,and deluxe rooms.It has its own water park,ghost house,a small cactus musium We chose Chalet tents. Oh god,what a choice that was! Trees all around,walkway surrounded by bushes,private place for bonfire, barbeque place,all that we could imagine,it was there. We just threw our bags and got into the water park. We spend almost 2-3 hours in the waterpark and then in the evening we decided to relax and enjoy the beautiful surroundings.
We ordered a tea bucket and sat outside and absorbed the beauty and the freshness. So,in evening we roamed around the property ,visited Haunted house, cactus musium and many more attractions within the property.
We all have excuses for not traveling but you must travel to know who you are,where you stands and the realisation of what e actually missing within. The amount of satisfaction we get by just watching mountains,trees, weather,rivers which we don’t really see by daily basis can’t explain in words. You can get your physical illness get well by man made medicines ,but for psychological illness,nature is the doctor and mountains,rivers,trees,weather are the medicines.So,do travel atleast once in 6 months if not once in a month,but travel.
Moving on, Mahabaleshwar and Panchgani are the places you must go and visit. There were so many spots from where you can see beautiful mountain range. Veena lake is where you can have a boat ride and many ground rides are available nearby Veena lake.Mapro garden is the must visit place if you visit Mahabaleshwar.It is the hub for Mapro products.They even have food Court. You must try Strawberry cream with Ice cream,its very tasty.I found food court a bit costly but can be tried once. You can taste Mapro juices for free in Mapro selling area and then buy what you like.
We had a nice dinner together with a bonfire and music along with it.
On next day we visited Mapro Garden, spend some time there and got ready for our final destination Pune. We went to resort,packed our bags and got ready for the final day of your first ride…It was a bit sad but yes excited to get over ghats and hit the highway. We decided to have lunch in Mahabaleshwar. It was raining heavily on that day,we decided to stop over a hotel and have lunch.
Very nice and warming experience happened that day. As we parked our bikes,hotel owner came and greeted us very nicely and he arranged a seperate sitting for us and gave us a extra table for our luggage.
One of our friend got his shoe sol out,as we were discussing about it he came and said,”Sir aap tensn mat lo mai kuch arrange kar deta hu” and he literally sent his worker our and bought fevistick to fix shoe sol. It was nice to feel that kind of humanity.
Being a rider,I can tell you i got very positive response from the people where ever i visit.People respect rider and try to help them in every possible way. That are the experiences which makes us realise that the humanity still exists.
This is the end of our first konkan ride.
Stay tuned.
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