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Colour your weekend! Top getaways to move in gratifying essence of Holi
- Updated: March 10, 2017
Music Meets Camping
White Collar Hippie’s campsite in Uttan is famous for transporting campers out of a city, into an insinuate space where song is a consistent companion.
However, this weekend gets even improved as we can also applaud Holi here, distant divided from a stupidity and disharmony that accompanies celebrating a festival in a heart of a city.
The campsite is located on a hillock off Gorai beach, beside a old-fashioned fishing village. You arrive late in a afternoon, ensue to play games or travel down to a beach to locate a sunset, and lapse to a campsite for a grill and a night of live song performances.
That evening, there will be a opening by Che Kinger, who, in a camber of only one-and-a-half years, has achieved extensively in Pune as a solo artiste, opposite genres. Settle down on a stone face that forms a naturally sculpted amphitheater during a campsite, or crowd around a bonfire as Kinger plays we some mellow tunes.
The Holi jubilee starts a subsequent morning, and will be accompanied by a groovy set by Nicky Ramnani, one half of a DJ twin Orbs Zen, whose song incorporates Deep House and Disco, among other influences.
ON: Mar 12 and 13, 4 pm onwards
AT: U-Tan Sea Resort, Chowk Dongri around Uttan, Bhayander (W).
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CALL: 9930260748
COST: Rs 2,200
Big Splash
Make a many of a weekend by being a partial of Moonstone Hammock’s Holi getaway.
To start with, we will be put adult during their campsite in Karjat, where we can collect from among unchanging belligerent tents, cold floating tents, and tents that are placed high adult in a trees.
The final stay before they close for a season, this one will also have a garland of fun activities for we to indulge in.
“We had hosted a Holi stay final year as well, though it’s opposite this time. You can go kayaking in a evening. Later, we have a few ice-breaker games set adult for you.
This will be followed by a live rope during night, that we can listen to as we suffer a grill by a bonfire,” says co-founder Rohit Dubey.
The subsequent morning, during a pool party, is when a colours come out and a Holi fun begins.
“A DJ will be personification some upbeat desi tracks, and we will be providing safe, organic colours for a event. No one will be authorised to get colours from outside,” he adds.
To lend a some-more authentic feel to a camp, a organisers are also going to be portion we piping prohibited pakoras, and normal vegetarian Holi delicacies such as puran poli, jalebis, fafda and uninformed samosas, ideal snacks for when you’re soaked and famished. Lunch and cooking will embody chhole bhature and biryani.
“The best partial about a campsite is that a continue here is always distant some-more pleasing than in Mumbai. In fact, it gets good and cold during night,” says Dubey.
ON: Mar 12 and 13, 4 pm to 3 pm
AT: Karjat.
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CALL; 9769274340
COST Rs 2,990 to Rs 3,490
Adventure Time
If camping overnight is not your style, pointer adult for a Holi-themed day outing being organized by Activity Adda.
“We’ll be withdrawal from Mumbai during 6 am, and it will take us around 3 hours to strech a venue, where we will spend a rest of a day,” says owner Miten Shah.
The venue in doubt is Durshet Forest Lodge in Khopoli. On a channel are a horde of journey activities such as ziplining, a inlet route in a woods, a value hunt, archery, and more.
Most importantly, using together to these activities will be an locus where we can play with colours while downing a potion of thandai.
“Last year, we hold a eventuality on Gorai beach, and about 450 people showed adult for it. Luckily, there were no mishaps. However, to make it some-more docile and beguiling for everyone, we’re tying a series to 60 this year,” informs Shah.
He adds that while final year, they had designed a eventuality in such a approach that we had to go by a sand pool, do a commando yield and other such activities to get to a sleet dance and Holi arena, this time around, they chose to do divided with this. “Here, we can do whatever we please. If we don’t wish to navigate a Burma overpass or go swimming, we can only omit those,” he shares.
If you’ve been looking for a discerning getaway after that we can lapse to a city a same night, this only competence be it.
ON: Mar 13, 6 am to 9 pm
AT: Durshet Forest Lodge, Khopoli.
CALL: 7738424076
COST: Rs 2,500 (includes transport, activities and meals)