Travelling Gypsies

A quick get away from Mumbai with friends is always welcome... Bestie arranged for our stay for 2 nights at HorseLand hotel in Matheran... A fun place to un wind from your hectic schedules... The ghat area is curvaceous and in some places steep inclines so a bit of caution on the road is adviced... Before you start your drive upwards there are drivers willing to drive your car upto the parking lot at a cost... Once in parking area be cautious of the touts who surround you to take their horses at a hefty rent for a barely 3 km.stretch... Since you have luggage and are keen to reach your hotel you will settle. Caution to all... There are e rickshaws available but tbe horsemen will mis guide you regarding the same. At our hotel was informed e ricks charge ₹35 pp Horse owners charge a king's ransome. The 4 of us were treated to a holiday by bestie at Horseland hotel Matheran... our room reception area The hotel has a full on e

My 2nd 48hrs. round trip from Mumbai to Surat and holy pilgrimage to 8 + 1 of our holy Fire temples... Of which 4 majore ones are in Mumbai itself. ( 18th and 19 Jan 2023 ) Started my day at 4.30 am alarm wake up, coffee and bath done... left for Charni road AtashBehram at 5.15 am...the first stop of the day and our meeting point... Time 5.30 am. (image from internet) Then the remaining 3 AtashBehrams in and near Dhobhi Talao area breakfast at Kayani... And off to Udwada...which is in Gujarat around 11am we started the drive towards Gujarat... Lunch was at new WZO in Udwada ... Topped it off with 2 ice creams ... only for me... a quick nap fresh up and then we could bow our head and say our prayers at Iranshah Saheb (takes me 50 minutes to pray at every Fire temple... I am the slowest in the group)... After that we left for Navsari ... Took the cross road left turn  instead of going straight towards highway we took the internal scenic route and heard my nephew g