My personal experience please read it Mumbai-Trimbakeshwar-Shridi-Shani shingnapur-Mumbai Bike ride. I started early morning @ 6.30am from Mira road and it was my 1st long(250 + kms) journey on my Karizma R1 partnering my friend Vijay. As soon as i reached highway my bike fuel got into reserve mode. Since normally i fill my bike tank on every Monday only. After crossing check naka had a fill the tank full 13 litter at Kashimira around 1000 rs and int on towards thane.I was very curious about the mileage of the bike. Have to be pretty alert on ghodbunder road at this time as lots of heavy trucks and carrier try to dominates every other vehicle on the road Additionally there is a huge line towards other side of the road fr octroci check, hence you will even find these crazy Trucks running on wrong side of the road with Headlights straight into your face. Once you cross thane and your on kalyan=biwandi bypass your real journey start.I ire with the bike limit around 60-70km. Once you catch NH3 towards kalyan-bhiwandi,things looks pretty ill set. Real enjoyed riding on NH3 at early Morning and you can easily touch the bike speed around 100-110km. Crossing shahpur i had taken our 1st hold. Duration i had covered around 70km..within around 1 hr.25mints. I had Tea- at toll naka, relax little and Inquired about the further road.I should appreciate that tea-stall war.he was Google for shirdi..information was dam correct. After taking break for 15mints, i start again, crossing kasara ghat with the morning sunlight is really enjoying climate was very cool and aisome. I reached igatpuri non stop by 8.30 and a good breakfast at Green view restaurant, food was okk. Just 2 km ahead of Manas. From there we reached at 9 am on straight riding towards Nashik, as it was advice to go from GHOTI for shirdi. I reach Ghoti and ask one of the local taxi wala for the way to shirdi and trimbakewar. Friends both the destination are total opposite to each other. Trimbakewar is left from Ghoti and fron shirdi it was right. Just had few words discussion with my friend Vijay wehther we can skip Trimbakewar and driectly go the shridi but i wanted to go to trymbakwar. So it was decided to go trimbakewar 1st and then come back and go to shridi. Trimbakewar is 70km from Ghoti and shridi is around 120 km from Ghoti. We had taken left for Trimbakewar around 9:35 am, friends road is dam bad..full of khadass...suddenly the joinery realise of not 70km but arund 100km with the bike limit around 20-30km. On the way to trimbakewar after 25km there is dam, water storage for production electricity. We decided to have look there and take some rest there since road was very bad n i only know how i have covered 25km. But friends after reaching there, the scenery i have seen was awesome, total blue water and sky, looking like some foreign location. Our whole frustration of that road was over in few second enjoyed lots there taken good picture and taken little rest by putting legs inside the cool water, it was pedicare for us, littler fish come and kissing our legs..feeling very nice and i have forgotten the time there, suddenly i since my watch and it was around 10:15 am, i not realised that, i have spend half and hour there, just setting there in the open sky. Was the 1st good focused point of our jounery.I left the place thanking GOD for wonderful scenery and then after road is ok. The road to trimbakewar is littler trick...i seen at front, in mind it show need to take left but suddenly i have to take right, i had our 1st shocker at the place. So i decided to go littler slow from here..Bike speed around 50-60km. Around 11.45 am we reach trimbakewar, get little fresh and gone to take darshan...Cell phone bags are not allowed inside the temple but they have made arrangement for the same...but you have to pay parking charges around 20rs.Trymbakeshwar is a excellent place. You will find typical Marathi Mama(while sadra+pyjama with whilte cap). I have taken flowers for worship but friend once we entered the temple and temple people told that pooja was going on..and i have give all flower, milk, coconut to temple work there n then take darshan,just few second and i have push by the temple works next next..not even seen the GOD place properly. In anger we left from there...after collecting our cell phone and bag...we enquiry local police about the way to shridi..Shall we go back from trymbakwar to Ghoti or other some other way...Police was help, he told to go Nashik and sinnar. From trymbakwar, nashik is around 30km and from nashik to sinnar 25km and from sinnar to shridi is around 70km. I left for shirdi around 12:15 am from there Nashik city road is under construction...so we go slow around 50-60km. Once i reach sinnar, the road is good same has NH3 but not one way..But you can easily go on with the speed to 100-110km. We covered 110km just within 1.30hr...but few kilometre like say 15km...the road get bad again, even horrible then trimbakewar...big khadass i can easily swim in the khadasass...bike speed 10-20km but time bike get stop. i have covered that 15km in next half n hour, i ire in the shridi around 2pm.enquried about hotel, since it was Saturday, rooms are full and getting decent hotel was hard, one of the local boy come near and ask looking for room, come with him and i decided to have look, Our hotel was exactly behind the shridi temple just 2-3mint walk able distance but Room fare was very high. 1000k for non-AC and 1200 for Ac. Since it was cold, i decided to have non-ac wala room after long bragging we were manager to take room for 600Rs.Room was good, double bed, TV, Lift facility and more Hot water.Hotel Name:Dhawarka. After taking bath and little reset, i gone for sai darshan, this was my 3rd visit to shridi,rush was less since it was afternoon.1st time in my 3 visit, i had muka darshan of sai baba..you cannot imagine no dhakamoki nothing...were in front of sai baba, just within half n hour..awesome feeling looking at sai baba..feel very nice after 3 visit i had time to see baba as much i wanted...no one push..i pray and thank God for this and knowly others also wanted to see baba properly i moved backward and let other to come near baba...gone back little and prayed again and left from them...this was my best experience of my life with sai baba in shridi. We were out around 4:00 and gone in line for laddu..since we get only one free packet of laddus in temple..in Q one person can take one packet only...cost Rs.20 per packet, since friends had place order for around 10 packet n i was with 3 packets with stand two time in the Q after taking one. After taking 2nd packet i decided to come later nigh around 9 to 10 pm to take more and gone for lunch from there...taken little lunch and back to hotel..I decided to go Shani shingnapur around 5pm meanwhile taking little rest. We had little sleep..but we were so tried that, when we got such a strong sleep..we wakeup around 6pm...it was too late.. Got fresh fast and decided to take local cab to go to shani shignapur..But looking how they pack the cab, we went on taking our bike only ...but our decision was bad..since road within shridi was very bad..We fill petrol for Rs.500.From shridi, shani shignapur is around 70km. After 25km with bad road, we were little relax since road was good...but in the night driving on bike is not easy..so i taken one car help..by just going behind that car and our life was little fine but i have be extra careful while driving behind car since they can easily avoid the khadasa within the wheels but i will go in that, i have take left wheels of the car and gone behind... Around 8pm we were in shani shignapur and drashan was very good..again awesome drashan...relax little after praying and thanking God, we left from there and reach shirdi by 10.15...but laddu counter was closed...since it is till 10pm only...so we went back to hotel and got fresh and come down for dinner little searching for good hotel..we got one..Again Food quality was okk...you can’t have same quality food that, i gets in aamchi Mumbai. We went to near shridi temple again had some picture, since cell phone can’t taken in the temple and came back in the hotel around 11.45pm. My Friend Vijay decided to go for Kakad aarti in the early morning 5 am,and then take reaming laddus.For me was littler diesis since i have to drive again for next day..Since my friend dnt drive bike.We weint to sleep. Got strong sleep..when i wake up...it was around 7am...and my friend still sleeping...i wake him and ask did he gone there..and answer was NO. Then taken batch and got ready around 7.45 am and went to take laddus..around 7.50 am but after seeing crowd i though everyone was in Q only know one is going to temple..Since it was the sunday...it was full pack shridi...Laddu Q was on the road...so Our bad luck and have to satisfy with that packet only. We done some shopping and back to hotel around 8:30am after packing we left hotel around 9am and fill petrol Rs.300 for safety..From Shridi-ghoti-NH3-Mira road 260km within next 6hr...we were back to home around 2.30pm with all necessary holds. My first bike experience on long distance has change since last long distance journey to mumbai-Goa was ended with an accident at panvel.Driving on Karizma R1 with the top speed around 130 km was awesome... Total coast: 2400 Petrol. Hotel:600 Food and shopping 1000 Total :4000 THANKS GOD FR THE WOUNDERFULL JOUERNY..THANKS YOU VERY MUCH
Posted on: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 17:21:14 +0000