Visiting Shirdi and around

Dear Members

I have 6 Days/ 5 Nights from Mumbai.

Would like to visit Shirdi, Pune and an additional place may be Hill Station like Lonawala or Beach like Alibag

Please suggest me the Routes and tentative cost by Road in Innova.

Best regards
Sudipta Banerjee

Hi sudiptabanerjee,

I visited Shirdi from Manmad, the railhead in the north. There are frequent busses to Shirdi from there and most hotels offer minibus tours to there. Shirdi's bus stand has frequent busses to every direction.

An insider tip:
Don't miss the Ankai/ Tankai (20.1875 N 74.4536 E - just put the coordinates in Google Earth; there are some pictures interlinked) double mountain forts half way between Manmad and Yeola on the way to Shirdi. There are cave temples, too. You can easily seen it from the road. The path up is about 2 kms east of the main road if you cross the railway and walk along the south side of the hill to a village. There are not many people climing up - so you can listen to the wind and relax with a great view over the surroundings.

Which hill station? I would go to Matheran or Mahabaleshwar. Just take a look to the other threads!

Most interesting off the beaten track ideas.
Gracias..