Weekend Escape :Tulapur

It’s a beautiful Saturday morning.

My clock has positioned its needles at 217’ 30’ and 90 degree to the zero point for the smaller and bigger respectively (it is 7:15 in the morning). My GPS is perfectly doing its job, uttering “Somewhere 20 km Northeast of Pune”. My best pal, my phone, sitting beside me is singing “MA REWA” of Indian Ocean for me. The climate has also made the all thing perfect for me. A slow breeze is waving things left to right and temperature is not more than 14 degree on Celsius scale. All other things are going as perfect as I would have liked it.

And to add more beauty to this there is a ‘Sangam’ of rivers Bhima, Bhama and Indrayani. Probably that’s why “MA REWA” was the first choice to me here. I’m sitting at a river bank facing east (actually want to say braving sun) with my jeans pulled up to my toes and legs dipped in water. It’s all green all over and the yellow is slowly gaining grounds. Beside me, sharing the screen with me, are few more creatures, a sparrow, a kingfisher and few fishes, to name a few.

And after detailing down all the particulars, even now you find it hard to picture one for yourself here is one for you.

After a heavy week at my desk, I badly needed a cut off. And what better time can be to use the cycles, my company have now allowed be with you even on weekends. It was some of very few weekends, where my plan was set. All started with early retirement to bed on Friday night and hence an early start on Saturday morning. Paddling down some 20-25 km, ‘m here, TULAPUR.

It’s a place not far from Pune but of course not very popular, one the best place to dump you down for weekends. Out from busting traffic and howling crowd, you will get a feel, might be a pinch of it, of traditional Maharashtra hinterland.

In case, you are one who needs a destination to travel up to (I mean all those who find it hard to enjoy a travel to nowhere), there is a temple named “Sangameshwar” and also “Samadhi” of Raje Sambhaji (son of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj). I always feel irked to give such nitty-gritty details of a place, but then some of us like it to be complete, END-TO-END, as my managers says.

Well, it’s 9 in the morning, and time to get back to my world. There is good number of action items waiting for me. Will sure update you once find a new to place to explore.

Signing Off for Now…..