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Recently I visited Lonavala and Kandala near Pune with my friend Subbu for time pass! Frankly speaking you should visit those places only for time pass and nothing else. You really enjoy those places if go there without much expectations. Lonavala is just 60-70kms away from Pune and it takes just 1.5 hrs in local train. It is the cheapest and best way to go there (just 13/- per head from pune). With the help of a local expert there (whom we found luckily near the Lonavala stn), we bargained an auto for Lonavala and Kandala trip for just 300/- Don't believe in the autowallahs near the station. They are there just to cheat you. Just get out of the station and walk towards the main road and you may find some good honest autowallah if you r lucky.
The 300/- package included TATA power project dam (called *wallah dam), Bushy dam (the beauty of these two dams is they are not built on any river!! the water you find there is pure natural rain water!!!), Some lake, (then lunch in Lonavala at ur xpenses), then Kandala places- Monkey point, Duke's nose, Sunset point (all these places are just almost on the same spot). Autowalla drops you there and takes rest till sunset!! The best time to go there is near sunset time so that you can be lucky spectator of a beautiful sunset near that sunset point.
There is some Lohagad fort near Lonavala. You have to get down one station (called aawla station (??) before the Lonavala station (when you are coming from pune) and walk to the fort.
Finally you can purchase Chikkis (Lonavala is famous for Maganlal chikkis). You can get Maganalal chikkis (from original makers) near the railway station itself. All other shops just distribute the same!! So always buy from the source!!
Ping me if you want more information about the place and the trip on the whole!!!
All the photos of my visit are available at picasa
I also visited Mumbai two days before and here are the photos.
Frankly speaking, if you are missing any spot in Lonavala, you are not going to miss anything!! (as per the opinion of the local expert I was talking about in the beginning of this blog!!)
