Mode of Transport: Bike
Per head cost: 1200 Rs
Journey Date: 14-April-2019
Travel Details and Experience
We started our journey from Goregaon Mumbai, It was a bike ride of around 400 Kms (Two way).
The trip was suddenly planed we don't have much information about the location. The journey started early morning at 6:00 AM. We took old pune highway and had a halt at Murbad for breakfast at around 08:00 AM. We took a halt at one of the viewpoints at Malsej ghat at around 09.30 AM and had some photoshoot.
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| Malshej Ghat View Point |
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| Malshej Ghat View Point |
We resume our journey towards Nighoj, but there was a slight changed in the plan, and decided to visit the pimpalgaon dam location. It was a beautiful location for the photoshoot, but need to be care full while entering the water. We spent about an hour and resume the journey as our destination was Nighoj potholes.
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| Pimpalgaon Dam |
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| Pimpalgaon Dam |
With the help of local people and a Goole map, we are heading toward Malganga temple, but due to the hot summer and it was almost 12:00 PM we were dehydrated, we saw a shop of sugarcane juice. had 2 glass of sugarcane juice, the combination of sugarcane and pineapple juice was awesome. After recharged ourselves, we started heading toward the Malganga temple. at around 1:00 PM we reached Malganga Temple Nighoj potholes.
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| Malganga Temple |
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| Potholes, Ranjan khalge |
Nighoj potholes or Ranjan khalge and Malganga temple located in the shirur district, border of Pune and Ahmednagar. It is the world largest basalt rock potholes formation. Kukdi river is the border of two cities. there are two temple of godess Malganga one at the side of pune and other at the side of Ahmednagar and these two temples were connected by overhead bridge on Kukdi river. Did prayer in both the temples and did photoshoot at potholes, you can say it a "natures decoration" After spending around 2 hours and collecting some good memories we started return journey towards Mumbai at around 3:00 PM.
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| Malganga Temple |
While returning goddess Malganga gave us a blessing by showering a rain due to which the temperature went down and had a relief from heat. Also the experience of aroma of soil in first rain was awsome. At around 4:00 PM We took a halt at one of the hotel in pune for lunch, at 5:00 PM we resume our return journey. This time we decided to take Lonaval highway and to cover as much as more distance before sunset. We reached Mumai, Goregaon at around 10:30 PM.
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| Virgal at Malganga Temple |
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| Potholes |
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| Overhead Bridge on Kukdi River |
