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Travel: A weekend getaway to strawberry farms in Wai
- Updated: September 23, 2016
Get your hands unwashed during a strawberry farm
In a integrate of months, you’ll be means to punch into splendid red, juicy, tart-yet-sweet strawberries. How about creation a weekend outing to a stay to assistance plant a underbrush on that they grow?
Give archery a shot
Less than 5 hours divided from Mumbai, en track to Panchgani, awaits Wai, where Krishna River Camp is holding a initial strawberry stay camp.
Go movement in giveaway time
But, detached from spending a morning during a farm, we will have copiousness of time to indulge in other outward activities.
Milan Wadkar, a founder, says, “Campers are asked to arrive by around 4 pm. After tents are allocated to them, they can go for a float in a Krishna river, that flows right beside a campsite, or go on a bamboo raft ride. Following this, tea and snacks will be served, and, if it isn’t raining, we can put your archery skills to exam during a range.”
Get on a bullock transport (activities change by a year)
After a object melts into a horizon, settle down outward your tents and ready for a fun DIY grill (vegetarian and non-vegetarian) session. At dinnertime, and lunch a subsequent day, we will be digging into delicious transport prepared by internal cooks.
Return to a stay in winter to collect strawberries
No camping knowledge is considered finish but a campfire. Strum on your guitar or listen to some relaxing song as a feverishness from a crackling bonfire keeps we warm.
If we have a time after checking out, revisit a famous Dholya Ganpati Mandir in Wai. Pic/Pradeep Dhivar
The subsequent day, after a robust breakfast of upma or poha, conduct out to a strawberry farm. “There are opposite varieties of strawberry grown in a area. We’ve zoned in on some types, that are cultivated in a stay that’s usually a five-minute expostulate from a campsite,” says Wadkar.
The all-year campsite confronting a Krishna river
You’ll spend about 3 hours planting strawberry bushes, after that we can freshen adult during a campsite, have lunch, and contend your goodbyes.
Post checkout, we could possibly conduct true behind to a city, or embark on a self-driven debate of Wai; a camp’s organisers will be some-more than happy to approach you. You could revisit a lifelike Balkavdi or Dhom dams, a Dholya Ganpati Temple, or Menavli Ghat. If we have some-more time on your hands, we could also conduct on to a mountain stations of Panchgani or Mahaleshwar.
The best partial about this outing is that a campsite is always open, and we can go behind during winter to collect a strawberries we helped plant.
On: Oct 1 and 2
At: Krishna River Camp, Wai.
Cost: 2,500 (package does not embody transportation; usually activities and meals)
Call: 9819833345
Log on to: krishnarivercamp.com
Good to know
There is a despotic no-littering policy. Litter bins are supposing opposite a campsite.
All song contingency be incited off post 10 pm, and campers are asked to spin in by 12 pm due to gram panchayat permissions.
Shared washrooms with using H2O are available.
For those who do not wish to stay in tents, a camp’s organisers offer dual homestay options. Enquire while booking.
Smoking is not authorised on a campsite.
What to pack
Mosquito repellent
Comfortable string wardrobe (including swimwear)
Cap/hat
Sunblock
Rain gear
Personal toiletries
Prescription medication
Empty H2O bottles (a vegetable H2O dispenser is supposing during a campsite)