I Travel, I Click...: Lavasa

My parents and my sister came over Pune before New Year. I have made lots of planning for them. Day trip to Sinhagad-Lavasa is the first of them.

My sister and me started off on my bike before sunrise and it was freezing out side. On the way, we found some fire to warm us up. It took around 2 hours to reach Sinhagad Fort. Even at 8:00am it was chilling at the top. We had famous Bhakri-Pithla of Sinhagad as breakfast.

We took a walk along the side-walls of the fort and we found quite a variety of birds.

We decided to take a peripheral tour of the fort and so we moved forward.

As we crossed Wind Point, we reached the part of the fort, which offers bit of challenge with uneven land and ruined walls.

It took more than 2 hours to complete the peripheral tour. We had lunch on the highway and moved for Lavasa. It's always been a pleasure to ride on the roads of Lavasa.

It took another two hours to Lavasa. I have been to Lavasa in early monsoon this year. Never expected Lavasa to be this much beautiful in Winter.

We spend quite a time taking photos here and there.

In the evening, we had some Subway wrappers and Gola and were waiting to see Lavasa in the night.

We left Lavasa at around 8 pm as I needed to drive 70 more kilometers to reach my flat. I was wishing I could have brought my parents.

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Lavasa, India's first planned hill city, is being built near Pune (around 60km) in the Mose valley of the Western Ghats. The city is yet to be completed.

Anyways, it's more than two years I am in Pune and heard about Lavasa. But, sadly could not make it in two years.
My friend has come from Mumbai on Saturday evening. So thought of going there with friends. But she ditched as she always does due to some so called unavoidable circumstances. So it's only two of us, me and Kaka (my friend). We dropped our friend near Wakdewadi and headed towards Lavasa.

It's my first trip with my Panther. I was very excited. It's the same with Kaka as he's on his new Twister.

We went to Chadni Chowk, took Paud Rd till we find a gate (made with banner of Lavasa) on the left. We took left and then onwards, it's just awesome, awesome and awesome riding experience.

Roads are well built and wide compared to other ghats. I was constantly driving in 4th gear even sometimes in 5th gear except turnings.

Driving in ghats is always thrilling. We stopped by many places, took snaps and moved forward.

It was drizzling and foggy when we reach Lavasa main gate and and It's hardly visible after 15 feet. The security registered our name and give us a map of Lavasa which we hardly used.

The roads become more wide as we entered through main gate. There are few springs on the way.

We are hungry and we needed to get to the town ASAP. But it's started raining cats and dogs. We had to stop by a go-down for sometime. As the shower reduced a bit, we started again and rushed into the first restaurant we found and the mouse cooled down.

It's still raining. Now, our next target was a petrol pump. It's on the other side of the hill. Once fueling is done, we went to heart of the city. Had black coffee, spend some time, took some pictures.

We went on to the dam. The town on the side of the lake looks spectacular. As monsoon has not started well till date, the other side of the dam is yet to be filled..