My visit to IGATPURI from surat

              Hello friends,

                                     IF you have not visited  this place yet , Plan it to visit during  monsoon  . you will enjoy lot and  you will be not disappointed.

Here i share my experience of          IGATPURI AND BHANDARDARA from SURAT.

                                    We have started our journey from SURAT at morning 7 am by self drive car.

Now a days ola outstation cab available at surat. And other option are taxi with drive also available   (-surat city cab- we have tried it two times for saputara trip.)

                                    On Google map you can see three routes to reach igatpuri, But we have choosed SURAT - manor-wada- IGATPURI ( 295 km total, 6hour approx) .This route is very good till manor . Then  approx  30 km route is rough but tolerable. I recommend to go in a group.

                                      we reached at igatpuri at 1pm, we checked in hotel which we have booked onilne (goibibo hotel booking app etc) . you can get good hotel at around 1500INR for 1 night.

                                    After refreshed we have taken lunch at green land restaurant then we proceed to visit Ashoka water fall (vihigaon) which is at distance of 13km and about half and hour drive  . Then  at evening  we return igatpuri and visited Municipaliti dam just 2 km from igatpuri , surrounding hills from this dam is beautiful. if you have time you can visit Tringalwadi dam which 8km from igatpuri.

towards Ashoka waterfall

Overnight stay at hotel. Many restaurants are available for dinner.

Next day morning we proceed to visit Bhandardara (45 km ) . Complete your breakfast in igatpuri as you will not find any good options on route.  In bhandardhara visit umbrella water fall  and lake . boating was closed at that time. Then we  started our journey to beautifull  sandhan valley (23 km from bhandardhara)  in monsoon you can see there a beautiful reverse water fall  . After that around 4pm we drive to returned surat via same route  and reached surat at 10 pm.

umbrella waterfall

umbrella waterfall

Reverse waterfall near sandhan valley

 There is  Many more places you can visit if you have time. Ideally need 3 day 2 night to cover all.

My Visit to aurangabad ajanta ellora caves from surat

Hi friends , i am always in search of places to visit around me, now i am in surat and visited aurangabad ajanta ellora caves recently,

here i will gives you details how i planned this trip from surat for Saturday and Sunday. 

There are so many direct sleeper buses available from surat . we have booked bus tickets online (via Paytm) on friday evening. Most of buses will pickup you @ 9pm from new bombay market, SAHARA DARWAJA. overnight journey in sleeper bus was comfortable.  

 They drop us at aurangabad ,near baba petrol pump at around 6am. From there we take auto and reached MTDC resort which is ,which is 2 km away from baba petrol pump. 

MTDC resort booking was done online for 0ne night from their official website . As we reached resort 6am, they allowed early chekin without any charge!

From resort Govt . approved volvo buses available for visit at very low cost

 Day 1 : Daulatabad fort, bibi ka makbara, panchakki, ellora caves  for aprox 276 INR/person

              ( 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM )

 Day 2 : Ajanta caves (full day)  for aprox 611 INR/person

             ( 7:30 AM to 5:20 PM )

please note that Ajanta caves closed on monday

and ellora caves closed on tuesday.

After this volvo tour , we have also visited some places in aurangabad , siddharth garden  , prozone mall.

Restaurant at MTDC resort was good , we have taken braekfast and dinner one time.

If you want to test different PAN test, must visit tara pan center !

ola, uber cabs are available easily at aurangabad.



our return bus was around 10pm from baba petrol pump, aurangabad which drops us at surat on monday early morning..

tourism bus MTDC

bibi ka mabara