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Travelogue : Pune -> Shirdi -> Pune
Folks, I did the Pune -> Shirdi -> Pune trip on 9th Sep 2011 and here is the travelogue for you.
Route: Pune -> Ahmadnagar -> Shirdi -> Ahmadnagar -> Pune
Distance: 370km
Car: India V2
Me and my buddy decided to go to Shirdi to have the godly darshan of Shirdi SAI BABA and take his blessings. So we packed one change overs and put that in the car and zoomed towards Shirdi. It was around 5pm when we started from Pune, Hinjewadi. We exited the city of Pune where the vehicle traffic was no too jam packed but was not empty roads either. It took us about 25mins to come on to the highway and get the wheels rolling freely. We drove for about 2hrs before taking the halt for tea/coffee and on the way clicked few pictures on the way.
My friend's Horse
Kids playing football in the field
On the way to Shirdi
The shot is scary as if its gonna hit the building, but don't worry its too far from the building :)
In Pune sky
Then we started again and switched the positions. This time I got behind the wheels as my friend was driving too slow :(( Anyway, so I got behind the wheel and got the wheels rolling at 80kmpl as it was already dark and I didn't wanted to risk our lives by driving the Indica too fast. Also we were not in too much hurry as we planned to do the darshan next morning if we get to Shirdi after 11pm. So we continued our journey and reached Shirdi around 10:30. We asked few folks out there for the timings of the temple and were told that by 11pm, it will close. So we decided to check-in to a hotel and relax and do the darshan next morning.
So we got a hotel for about 600Rs a night and we immediately took it. Then we went for a quick walk and for stretching our legs and then came back and crashed into the bed. Next morning the alarm went off at 4:30 but we kept on snoozing it and finally left the bed at 5:30am, got fresh and then got into the queue for keeping the camera and mobile phones into the cloak rooms as provided by the Shirdi Sai Baba sansthan.
Then we got into the queue and surprisingly the queue was not too big as is the case in Shirdi most of the times. So slowly and steadily we kept on moving with the queue and kept chanting "Om Sai Sri Sai Jai Jai Sai" and in about 55mins of time we were in front of Baba. It was a great feeling as always and got the blessings, offered our offerings to Baba and then exited out of the main hall. It was too good to do the darshan that quickly. After that we went to collect the "Udi", did the darshan of other small places there in the temple premises like Abdul Baba dargah, holy tree, Udi place etc and then came out for Dwarka Mai darshan. The queue for DwarkaMai was not very long but as it takes a little time, we did the darshan in about 15mins time. After that the final stop was at the Hanuman Ji temple and luckily it was Aarti time. So we did the darshan at Aarti time and then came out.
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Folks, I did the Pune -> Shirdi -> Pune trip on 9th Sep 2011 and here is the travelogue for you.
Route: Pune -> Ahmadnagar -> Shirdi -> Ahmadnagar -> Pune
Distance: 370km
Car: India V2
Me and my buddy decided to go to Shirdi to have the godly darshan of Shirdi SAI BABA and take his blessings. So we packed one change overs and put that in the car and zoomed towards Shirdi. It was around 5pm when we started from Pune, Hinjewadi. We exited the city of Pune where the vehicle traffic was no too jam packed but was not empty roads either. It took us about 25mins to come on to the highway and get the wheels rolling freely. We drove for about 2hrs before taking the halt for tea/coffee and on the way clicked few pictures on the way.
My friend's Horse
Kids playing football in the field
On the way to Shirdi
The shot is scary as if its gonna hit the building, but don't worry its too far from the building :)
In Pune sky
Then we started again and switched the positions. This time I got behind the wheels as my friend was driving too slow :(( Anyway, so I got behind the wheel and got the wheels rolling at 80kmpl as it was already dark and I didn't wanted to risk our lives by driving the Indica too fast. Also we were not in too much hurry as we planned to do the darshan next morning if we get to Shirdi after 11pm. So we continued our journey and reached Shirdi around 10:30. We asked few folks out there for the timings of the temple and were told that by 11pm, it will close. So we decided to check-in to a hotel and relax and do the darshan next morning.
So we got a hotel for about 600Rs a night and we immediately took it. Then we went for a quick walk and for stretching our legs and then came back and crashed into the bed. Next morning the alarm went off at 4:30 but we kept on snoozing it and finally left the bed at 5:30am, got fresh and then got into the queue for keeping the camera and mobile phones into the cloak rooms as provided by the Shirdi Sai Baba sansthan.
Then we got into the queue and surprisingly the queue was not too big as is the case in Shirdi most of the times. So slowly and steadily we kept on moving with the queue and kept chanting "Om Sai Sri Sai Jai Jai Sai" and in about 55mins of time we were in front of Baba. It was a great feeling as always and got the blessings, offered our offerings to Baba and then exited out of the main hall. It was too good to do the darshan that quickly. After that we went to collect the "Udi", did the darshan of other small places there in the temple premises like Abdul Baba dargah, holy tree, Udi place etc and then came out for Dwarka Mai darshan. The queue for DwarkaMai was not very long but as it takes a little time, we did the darshan in about 15mins time. After that the final stop was at the Hanuman Ji temple and luckily it was Aarti time. So we did the darshan at Aarti time and then came out.
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