Spend a day with trees and flowers in Sagar Upvan during Colaba

Kids can chill in a immeasurable open space

Imagine vast tracts of sprouting and undulating land, and high trees; so high that when your eye marks them to their tops, all we can see is their immature heads and a sky.

Every time we had attempted to conduct to BPT Garden, or Sagar Upavan as it has been rechristened, something or a other would come up, thwarting a revisit – until final week. When my kids and we finally find a approach to Colaba, we seem to know we had arrived, even before a GPS signals, gazing during a thick limit of trees that side a walls of a garden.

plants with name plates, BPT Garden (Sagar Upvan), Colaba

I’m in adore with a place as shortly as we enter. It now gives we a feeling of space and is degrees cooler than a outside, interjection to a sea adjacent it as good as a underbrush of trees all over. At a opening of a park is a print of a birds who revisit a park or have done home here. We walked past stately Hibiscus underbrush on to a lawns covering a golf course-style landscaped hillocks. This well-kept garden has some really engaging class of trees such as Kala Palash (Ougeinia oojeinensis), Black Pearl (Harpullia zanquebarica) and a Branching Palm (Hyphaene dichotoma). And, dark among these high stalwarts, is also a smashing collection of different flowering plants as good as nectarine shrubs.

There are walkers and joggers sportive in a outdoor periphery of a park. Butterflies nictitate holding in a final regard of a environment sun. We conduct to a centre where an endless dull immature space, dotted with children playing, beckons.

There’s adequate space to play all kinds of games and groups of children and families are here with badminton rackets, cricket rigging and ball. We ride towards a sea side and admire a vanishing tide. Perhaps since of a sea, we mark a few Egrets walking complacently, until my 11-year-old daughter Vani decides to follow them.

We travel by and mark a bamboo grove. There are pretentious trees and a perfumed Naag Champa underneath a canopies of which, families with kids or groups of immature adults spend some still time. There is something truely pacific about a park. After a idle while, we changed on to a ascending rockery, flitting assorted succulents. In one area, there is a collection of cacti to demeanour at.

We wander along, interlude to demeanour during trees or play with any other in a vanishing light. Because there is unenlightened leaflet and adequate shade, Sagar Upavan is a good place to conduct to even in summer months where a outdoor are a killer.

Where: Sagar Upvan (BPT Garden), nearby BEST Depot, Sassoon Docks, Colaba.
Best for: Boys and girls of all age groups.
How to reach: Alight during CST or Churchgate and accost a cab to a venue.
Timings: All days, 6 am to 11 am, 4.30 pm to 8 pm.
Budget: Rs 2 (entry fee); Rs 10 (if carrying a camera)
Food: No
Water: Available
Rest Room facilities: Yes
Where else to go:
Horniman Circle Garden, Gateway of India and a vessel ride; also revisit a National Gallery of Modern Art and a Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya.

What’s Good: Ideal as a inlet haven; balmy space
What’s Not So Good: Don’t design party here. There are no props or play equipment.

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