Tuesday, July 21, 2009

SURAT-NASHIK VIA SAPUTARA- Rain please go away

Early morning view from my room at The Gateway Hotel Surat. Its just beautiful sight of Tapi river flowing next to the hotel. It rained whole night and the same story in the morning too. Our next stop Nashik was about 250 kms but weather did not help us.

We had to stop in a small dhaba as it started pouring very badly and driving was tough. Dhokla and hot tea( even the tea was pouring!!) in a small place just before the Saputara ghats.




The drive is really beautiful with streams going along the road. But water level was quite dangerous and there were places where bridges were just at water level. we decided to to just go on at a normal speed since the roads were also not great. Driving in rains is what i look forward to in Delhi but unfortunately we only get it for a month and that too if you want to enjoy driving we had to go out towrads Jaipur road to enjoy. Here for last 10 days i have been just driving in rains all through different terrains but not the usual company. Great experience nevertheless!!





But the drive very scenic,











At Saputara hill station which is actually at border of Gujrat and Maharashtra. Nice scenic hill station. Met few people who had come from daman for a visit. They were very excited when i told them what i am doing. a great time having hot bhuttas and lots of photographs.




This guy on my left is from some political party in Daman and insisted that when i drive back to Delhi, do visit Daman and be his guest. Very passionately he said "We will show you Daman and will spread the message of peace"



This is what you get in rains on top of this hill station...hot juicy corn



As we approached Nashik the rains slowed down
























1 comment:

  1. Love the photo of the tea in the Dhabha

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