Mahabaleshwar Travel Guide

Mahabaleshwar tourist place is located in Maharashtra is 4,500 ft above sea level in the Western Ghats. The summer capital of the erstwhile Bombay presidency engages the senses not just on the strength of its natural beauty but also because of the charming tales spun around its most favored points. Nature is extraordinarily magnificent here rugged hills steep falls thick forests and rivers that flow every which way they please.

Though electricity often plays truant up in the sahyadris the fabulous weather means never really having to sweat it out just one of the reasons why mahabaleshwar is always bursting at the seams with tourists and to think that till a few years back mahabaleshwar used to officially down its shutters in the monsoons. Today you could go at any time of the years and be assured of a warm welcome and all the hill station experience you anticipated.

Taking along a guide of a tour of the hill station might be a good and practical idea, if you can stand narratives liberally peppered with details of who committed suicide from which point or where hit hindi film was shot with almost 30 designated shghtseeing spots there’s something to do every minute of your vacation.

Start with Hunter Point for its clear view of pratapgad fort, then move on to Mahabaleshwar’s highest, Whilson Point, which offers a spectacular view of the sunrise. Also on view are the twin peaks of Makrandgad Fort.

Mahabaleshwar has almost 30 designated sightseeing spots from hunter Point, with its clear view of Pratapgad Fort to Mahabaleshwar’s highest, Wilson Point with which offers a spectacular view of the twin peaks of makrandgad.

Mahabaleshwar was once the summer capital of the Bombay Presidency there are even pots named for the Presidency’s Governor Lord Elphinstone and a memorial to General Lodwick town mayor of the Bombay Presidency. Venna Lake on the Mahabaleshwar Panchgani Road is the ideal place for an evening outing after you are done with all points high and low.

Sunset Point, Mumbai Point

Adults and children come here to ride about on horses but his p0lace is worth a visit even if it’s not time for the daily performance the sun plays to the gallery every evening.

Mahabaleshwar Temple

Little girls from a circle around you as they implore you to buy their flower baskets for offering to Shankar Bhagwan. The ancient shivling inside the temple is a natural formation and over 500 years old.

Also check out Panchganga Mandir, Morarjee Castle where Mahatma Gandhi stayed when he visited Mahabaleshwar in 1945 and the colonical style bungalows.

Pratapgad Fort

This fort built in 1656 on craggy cliffs survives in remarkably good shaps. It was the venue of the November 1659 face off between the diminative but indefatigable Maratha leader shivaji and the muscular and well built Afzal khan the mighty bijapur general. Though the meeting was intended as a rapprochement between the tow Afzal khan reportedly had other ideas.

Crush

If it’s Mahabaleshwar it must be strawberries jams crushes, jellies you name it and they’ve got it. Arches Strawberry Farm is a great place to glug a few milk shakes. In full bloom the place is a riot of red.

Road Travel – There are tow routes to Mahabaleshwar one along NH4 via Pune, Shiwal and Panchgani, which is longer but has better roads. The shorter route is down NH17 via Pen, Mahad and Poladpur. At Poladpur’s bus station take the road going left towards the ghats.