Matherna Trip (Continued)

As usual for our weekend, me and my wife has planned a weekend travel to Matheran which is around 60-70 km from Pune. We have not decided for the final destination as we were confused about to choose between Matheran or Lonavala. We left from our home in our car around 4 pm in evening. We had to drop off our house rent at our agent's office so that caused a detour for about 10 minutes. After that we picked the older Pune-Mumbai highway passing through Chinchwad. The part of journey in Pune was slow and winding but as we touched the highway. We sped off in our high spirits. When we were about 1 hour away from Lonavala, we stopped at an Dhaba " Roadside restaurant in India " for snacks. I just thought of enquiring the waiter in that Dhaba about Lonavala. The reply was succinct and hilarious " Lonavala is seventeens kms from here and you could get any lodge over there". We laughed our hearts out on the use of word "seventeens". We decided to make it fast to Lonavala. But Lonavala does seem to tickle our taste so we asked about Matheran. Immediately we took off for Matheran. Till we reach the foot of mountain, everything is fine. We would suggest to have day journey while driving up towards Matheran. As we had lot of sharp turns and using preferably 1st gear. We reached Matheran using the longer way at about 8 pm in night. Rest in the next post.