Places to visit near Mumbai

Hello all.   This week is  my finale part  about Mumbai. Today  I  would list out some of the places to visit near Mumbai.  Some are religious places, some hill stations and some beach destinations.

I have been to some of the places which  I would describe  as  I mention names. These places by road are  aprox  4-6 hrs travel time.

Hill stations: 
Matheran:  One of the few places in the world where all vehicles are banned which makes this place unique.  To go to Matheran you have to take a toy train from Neral station.

Mahableshwar:  beautiful hill station in Satara district of Maharashtra. It has many beautiful points to enjoy and the venna lake is one of the major tourist attraction.

VIEW FROM ABOVE

ONE TREE AT MAHABLESHWAR

Lonavala/Khandala:  just about 3hrs away from Mumbai by road and you enter this lovely hill station. Its famous for Lonavala chikki and Bhushi dam.  Khandala is  joined to Lonavala. The famous Amby Valley is in Lonavala.

 

LONAVALA

VIEW OF LONAVALA

I have been to above places  some years back its like taking a very relaxing break after hectic life in Mumbai.  There are few more places which I have not visited like, Amboli, Jawahar, Saputara, Panhala.

Lavasa is a new hill station which is near Pune city.

Beaches:

Though Mumbai has its own beaches but if you want a beach holiday away from Mumbai then you can try these places.

Alibaug: I  had written about this  in one of my earlier blog post here.

Daman, Dahanu, Ganpatipule, Kashid. Murud are some of the other beach destinations.

I have been to Dahanu too and its quiet place away from fast paced life of city and famous for its chikoos.

DAHANU BEACH

SUNSET AT DAHANU BEACH

Religious Places:

Nasik, Shirdi Trimbakeshwar are some  of the places to visit

Apart from these there are numerous getaways like Silvassa, Bhandardara.Igatpuri and Aurangabad where world heritage sites  of Ajanta and Ellora caves are located.  I had been there years ago so I don’t have any pictures of the caves.

There are many more places but if I list them all my post would get real long. And with this concludes my series on Mumbai.

Also read Part 1-- WELCOME TO MUMBAI 

                 Part 2--  STREET FOOD OF MUMBAI 

The above pics were taken by old camera and I had visited some of the above places long back. Now there would be some changes. 


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