Travel: Explore sparkling trails around Mumbai on Independence Day weekend

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Trails around a city

Nature training
Learn to turn an civic naturalist and control your possess inlet trails in a three-day programme offering by iNatureWatch Foundation. It is open to all inlet lovers (from customary 10 onwards) even though a scholarship credentials and will be conducted by Dr V Shubhalaxmi and Priti Choghale of Ladybird Environmental Consulting. Participants can also pointer adult for an tutelage with iNatureWatch post a programme.

ON Aug 13 to 15, 9 am to 4 pm
AT Nature Information Centre, Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivali (E). FEE R4,500 (includes training, route fees, investigate material, certificate, tea and lunch)
CALL 9987013144
EMAIL inaturewatch@gmail.com
LAST DATE TO APPLY Today (On a mark registrations might be accessible depending on a accessibility of seats)

Cycling
Chase a sunrise, suffer a beaches and some-more with an Independence bicycle float from Bandra to Colaba.

ON Aug 15
MEETING POINT Bandra (5.30 am)
COST Rs 975 (includes cycle, helmet, break box, superintendence price and reserve vehicle)
CALL 9833163486
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TRAVEL PACKAGES

Malshej; (left) Bhandardhara

Independence Day trips
Keeping a prolonged weekend in mind, MTDC has introduced special packages that includes turn trips for routes like Mumbai-Bhandardhara-Mumbai, Mumbai-Nashik-Shirdi-Bhandardhara-Mumbai and a one-day debate of Mumbai-Malshej-Mumbai. These embody transportation, overnight stays during hotel, breakfast and dinner.
CALL 22845678
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EMAIL reservation@maharashtratourism.gov.in

Weekend Activities

Inside Kothaligad Fort
Experience a engineering marvel of Kothaligad Fort/watchtower in Karjat, where a apex is forged from a inside, combining a round staircase that reaches a top. Other attractions embody a cave, and church carvings that date behind to 13th Century. The cost for a outing covers ride by train from Mumbai to trek bottom and back, breakfast and simple lunch.
ON Aug 14, 6 am onwards
Cost Rs 1,350
Pick adult points Andheri (W) Railway station, outward Hyatt, Santacruz (E) and Indian Oil Nagar, SCLR Road.
CALL 9833163486
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For Families

Celebrate Independence Day by movement to a tip indicate in Mumbai, located inside Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivali while enjoying a sundry flora and fauna. The trek can be undertaken by relatives and children.

ON Aug 15, 8 am onwards
MEETING POINT Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivali (W).
COST Rs 900 (doesn’t cover snacks or lunch)
CALL 9619793983

Trekking

Explore a Prabalgadh Fort

Slip into your movement boots and try a lushness of a Sahyadris with a special one-day trek to Prabalgadh Fort (Panvel-Matheran district) in a imperishable plateau of Western Ghats. The turn of a trek is somewhat severe and includes a seven-hours travel (ascend and descend), though once we have reached to a top, we get to suffer an extraordinary perspective of a Kalavantin Durg.

ON Aug 14, 5.30 am
MEETING POINT Along a Western and Eastern Express Highway
COST R2,150 (includes ride by bus, guides, rabble bags, gloves, breakfast, lunch and refreshments)
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CAMPING

Host a Tricolour during Pawna
Soak in a nationalistic enthusiasm with a midnight dwindle hoisting during Camp Deogadh, a lakeside campsite during Pawna Lake. The subsequent morning, kids from a circuitously Thakursai encampment will entice we with renditions of nationalistic songs. Tuck into internal Maharashtrian fare, taste on barbequed corn on a cob and wind over to an on-site rapids in this overnight camping trip.
FROM Aug 14 to Aug 15 
AT Camp Deogadh, Thakursai — Aajiwali Road, Deogadh.
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COST Rs 2,500 
CALL 9820074884

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