The Hidden Oasis

I am very excited for writing this blog. This is about a place near Pune, called "The hidden oasis". I am excited because after a long time I had an outing and found this such a wonderful and energetic place. My parents and my sisters had visited Pune first time and that's when my aunt had planned to spend a day there. This place is about 20km from Pune. we started at 9 in the morning. we reached there around 10.30AM. My sisters found the route beautiful but for me it was fine. I have seen many routes in Pune better than this but I enjoyed this road trip. My uncle was driving. He was telling us about his life experiences, some driving tips to remember while driving. I like to listen him, his life experiences.

The hidden oasis, the origin of this was an orphanage. It was a family's retirement plan to open an orphanage and the outcome is named as "Sai children's home". To make this orphanage self-sustainable, The hidden oasis came into existence. That's how this beautiful place started.

When we reached there, the very first thing I noticed was a dog sitting at the entrance and as she saw us, she immediately got up and ran inside. it felt like she went to inform that visitors have reached. funny I know but that's how I see the things.

The entrance had old iron gate that was opened and from there a kind of nature walk started. The path leading us to the resort was full of trees and plants. I could smell the earthy scent. I had already started falling in love with this place.

There are rooms where orphanage's children study. Those rooms had beautiful paintings on their walls.

We all were starving and directly headed towards the canteen. We got Poha and sambhar wada in menu. food was very tasty. We all enjoyed the breakfast. our photos clicking had been started and we clicked too many pictures. It was nice and different feeling to have meal surrounded with nature and this made our food more tasty. We don't get this in cities. here is a snap from the breakfast table:

after breakfast, we headed towards the farm. This place has very big farm and so many types and varieties of plants and trees. They have butterfly garden, vegetable farms, fruit garden and many more. All are grown organically. We spent almost 2 hours in exploring the whole farm. Tried to catch glimpse of that vast farm, have a look:

Elders got tired and they went to the sitting area near to the lake. We youngsters started our photo session. We covered almost all the places in our photo session. Then we started starving and headed towards canteen for lunch. Here are few snaps we clicked:

During the lunch, it started raining but it didn't stopped our enjoyment. after lunch everyone headed towards the game zone. There we had played Badminton and Cricket. It was fun. Other than games, rope bridge, wall climbing and rope climbing were also there. We enjoyed rain also, crossed the rope bridge and explore the other side hill area in rain. Then we came back to game zone and joined elders in badminton. We spent there almost 3 hours. We couldn't clicked much picture because rain.

After that we had tea and pakode and ready to leave. I personally liked this place so much. if you want to spend some quality time with family and nature, This resort is perfect place to come. It has farms to try farming, has play zone for kids, lake side lawn to chill and relax, meditation room, tasty food and lots of plants and trees for fresh air. One can go to the other side of the rope bridge and enjoy the top view of hill. It's a small climb to go to top but it's very beautiful.

So here our one day trip ended. We left the place around 6PM. We all were tired by then but still had a fresh and energetic mind having lots of sweet memories.