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Camping at Pawana Lake

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Another beautiful day, another beautiful location. This time we wanted to experience the thrills and chills of camping outdoors and we stumbled across an ideal location... Pawana lake near Lonavala! How to get there? Pawana lake is located some 20Kms from Lonavala, with ample options for camping. You will find numerous camping sites spread across the banks of the lake offering various leisure activities. You can take the Mumbai - Pune expressway to reach Lonavala and head towards Lohgad fort. When camping, its always better to BYOT (Bring Your Own Tent). Since this was our first camping trip, we felt it wise to just book one online as none of us knew how to set up a tent. So one fine morning we logged on to bookatent.in and booked a camp for us. The D Day On a lovely Saturday morning of 20th Jan 2018, 11 of us headed towards the grand Pawana lake. It was a perfect day to flag off the year with a road trip. As always, i was riding my blue electra along with two ot

Ride to Shrivardhan

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Shrivardhan is a city in the Raigad district of Maharashtra around 180Kms from Mumbai. It is a calm and peaceful place with beautiful beaches and a breathtakingly scenic coastline. This is the third time i have been here but my first trip on my bullet all the way from Mumbai. I will definitely go there again! The Plan We had been craving for a road trip since quite a few months but could not go anywhere because of our busy schedules. My friends sister was getting married here as it was their native place and thus we had found a perfect reason for us to feel the open road once again. This was also the time when demonetization hit the country. Since time was short and we had to reach the wedding at 1 pm on Saturday, we decided to take our bikes (2 Bullets, 1 Gixxer and a Vikrant) and hit the road on Friday night itself after office. We would stop at Panvel and spend the night in a friends house who would join us on his Vikrant. There were three others who w