My Second Trip to Lonavala

A Ride To Lonavala

Recently had a Ride to Lonavala on a rainy weekend. Not planned much earlier, woke up late Sunday morning and got fresh and went out for Breakfast, we asked each other "shall we go" and nikal pade. We even didn't take our jackets or any thing save us from this rains and yes we had to pay the price for that.

Had our Discoverer fuelled up at the bunk in the outskirts of chinchiwad almost near to Dehu road and started our journey. There was very less traffic and we were travelling cool @ 50-60 kmph. We have visited a big Jain temple under construction on the way and then went reached the Karla Caves which were almost near to Lonavala.

The pics below are a reverse order of our journey they start with the last first.

Lets Start :

We tried reaching the Lohagad fort from the Bhaje caves 7 km before Lovavala and for that we climbed the hill to some extent on the bike but, that was horrible. The bike was like crying hard, so dropped the Idea of going to the fort and took a break njoying the music from my Ipod.
Lets Rock !!!

Light was almost going when we reached near the bhaje caves and then decided not to climb the hill to go to the caves as it was a bit far anyways wanted to have a pic with the caves, so tried this one with the caves at the back ground(far on the hill).

Creativity !!!
On the Way to Bhaje we have to cross this bridge over the Pune-Mumbai Express highway. Seeing the view I almost looked around and asked my friend am I in India or somewhere else.
Its India Surprising isn't it !!!

I could not leave the place without getting photographed with one of the greatest roads of India and decided to send the pic to the people in other countries and tell them....
Hey Guys India Rocking !!!



On the way to Ambi valley where these guys of Biggest Looser Jeetega are staying, this dam present and is called Lonavala Dam.

Biggest Looser Jeetega !!!





Enjoying the cool breeze and giving a good pose for the camera.

Cool isn't it !!!



In Lonavala we did some exploration and could find a place which I can say is the best place in Lonavala, the place is on the edge of a valley which would be around 1000 feet deep and the water pouring into the valley form all the sides. It's really fantastic. Myself and Chaitanya had to pose to my mobile with the self timer on, as no one else was there near by to even hear us shout.

Technology is booming !!!


The water falling in to the valley as I said earlier can be seen here behind me and, the valley also can be seen to some extent. Dont look for a Niagara, its not Niagara .....

Its Lonavala !!!




This pic features the famous Karla caves.This is a outside view of the Karla caves present 7 km before Lonavala. We tried to get in to the Caves but there is also a Temple associated with the caves and the queue was like almost 500 people were standing in the queue there. So we did go a bit near the temple and had a look and skipped the caves.

God is Great !!!

The caves are Buddhist caves and they look awesome from inside. Seen the pics from some website.

End of the bulletien !!!

So there happened our exploration visiting the Karla caves and Bhaje caves and finally my favourite spot in Lonavala.

Will be posting my Next ride soon !!!

Cheeers :)

Satya.