Sunday, April 26, 2009

Ashta Vinayak Trip

What started as a small trip of 3 days at Pune to cover the Ashta Vinayaks (Swayambhu) got converted into a 10 day vacation to cover Pandarpur (or is it Pandaripur - as I remember from my grandfather), Tuljapur, Kolhapur, Mahabaleshwar, Ghanagapur. Just before we started, Srikant Gautam suggested us begin the trip by visiting Rejinthal, Zaheerabad, Bidar Road. It was a good temple and we thus began on an auspicious note.

We have started at 0400 hrs today the 26th April, 2009, after hiring the services of a driver for this long road journey - our first one for almost 2000 km road trip (minimum). Camping at Pandarpur (night halt), I make this blog and we about to witness the glory of the lord Krishna as we plan to have a darshan in about 30 mins.

The hotel SHAMIANA is not all that great, but enough to provide us with the amenities for a night halt. I shall in my next blog provide the contact numbers of hotel Shamiana as I could not find the same on the internet when I tried to make a booking over phone.

I am going to post pictures as well in the next blogs.