Hello readers, I hope you all are safe in this pandemic. I am also good . After one year, I finally stepped out and had a short trip to a nearby location. Here I am going to write about it. First I will introduce the location and then will write about my experience.
We had a ride to Mulshi dam. This is a major dam on the river Mula in India, located in Pune district of Maharashtra. This dam water is used to produce electricity at the Bhira hydroelectric power plant. This plant is operated by Tata power. In 1920-21, during the construction of the dam and power station, Pandurang Mahadev Bapat led Mulshi Satyagrah. This movement represent farmers whose land had been taken to build the project.
This dam and project station was constructed in 1920-21. This project was built on the land that was taken away from the farmers of that time. During the construction, Pandurang Mahadev Bapat had started the Mulshi Satyagrah, in favor of those farmers, whose land was taken to build this project.
Now, let’s start about my ride.
We were four girls, decided to go on a ride on scooty. Actually our goal was not to reach the destination. We just wanted to have a ride. We decided the route to Mulshi dam to ride. We were not sure if we could reach the destination initially.
We started at 6 in the morning. After a long time, I had woken up so early and It was so refreshing seeing the early morning sky. I was very happy and it was a good start to our ride. So we three girls stay in same building. We started and we had to pick up the our fourth girl. Around 6.30, we reached the girl’s home to pick her up. And then finally we started. Although we were still in the city, yet I had already started enjoying the ride, because I was feeling very happy and refreshing after waking up so early. Whether was very good, cool breeze was making it more enjoyable.
Now our first task was to look for a decent place to have breakfast because everything was not yet opened and we wanted to have breakfast before exiting the city. After riding for 1 hour, we finally got a restaurant. We had ordered south Indian and it was good.
We started around 8.30. It took us around 2 and a half hours to reach the dam. Now we were exiting the city and started finding ourselves surrounded with mountains. Pune is more beautiful in monsoons. Now we didn't find much greenery, still it was beautiful. Actually what I feel that whenever you get close to the nature, you automatically start finding everything beautiful. Nature is beautiful in each weather. My friend said one very deep thought. She said that we human destroy the nature for our living and then when we get tired of our daily life, we go close to the nature to relax and refresh our mind. We call that vacations.
We took a halt somewhere on the Mulshi-Paud roda. Location was good and we clicked few pictures there.
After around 20 mins, we resumed our ride again. From there, the route was very good. We had started climbing now to the hill and it was kind of zig-zag route. I was enjoying the ride as this was the first time I was riding on such route. We faced strong wind on this route. After around 1 hour, We started seeing the dam water and from there the road was very smooth. I was so enjoying riding on that road that we decided to go till the Tamhini. But after half n hour, we decided to go back to the Mulshi. We reached the Mulshi and spotted a beautiful location to relax near the water. We spent around 1 hour there, clicked so many pictures, played in water. Location and view were very beautiful. Here are some snaps:
Now around 12 o’clock, we started to return. We stopped at a nearby restaurant to have lunch. Food was good and at very reasonable price. We entered the city around 3 o’clock. Till now, I was enjoying the ride as weather was good and route was also very good. But now, it was a hot afternoon and we started facing traffic in the city. Now our fun ride was becoming a boring ride and we wanted to reach our home soon.
We reached home around 5pm. and here our short ride was ended. Although it was a tiring ride, yet we liked this as it was a refreshing trip to all of us. For me, It was a ride that boosted up my confidence for riding the scooty on such a route. Now I am looking forward to more such rides.
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