En route (from car - action shot)
Bhushi Dam (nearly empty reservoir)
In the monsoon, water cascades down these steps and you can sit on them with the water pounding your back. Sounds fun!
A waterfall (again, rather low power) with people enjoying a shower.
View downstream from the waterfall.
View Left from Lions's Point
View Right from Lion's point
Corn-on-the cob stalls (obviously the snack of choice around here)
Chikki & chocolate fudge sellers in Lonavala
Tiger Valley (big cats not in evidence you'll be glad to know)
RTO stands for Regional Transport Office!
4 comments:
Wot! No pictures of gravel roads for me.
Actually the roads out to Lonavala, and above into the hills were really really good! The one in the hills particularly was very new, and smooth lovely tarmac all the way. There is a new super-luxury resort up there called Ambi Valley which has its own airstrip so they expect millionaires.
One of the guys on my MSc course is Indian (from Kerala). He gave us a presentation earlier in the year about the new main roads planned for India.
These are "The Golden Quadrilateral" (linking Delhi Calcutta, Chennai and Bombay) and new main N-S and E-W routes; the whole layout looking rather like a kite.
Well the road from Mumbai to Pune (via Lonavala) is part of that Golden Quadrilateral. It is noticeably better than the highways you get in Mumbai (and also the NH1 from Delhi to Agra). No camels, cows, bicycles, rickshaws for a start. Also no random bits of surface that they've forgotten to finish. I can sympathise though, I start DIY projects and take ages to get round to finishing them *coughdoorscough*.
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