My Shirdi Trip..

Shirdi Temple..



Middle of the way to shirdi..at Narayan gaon

In the hotel room in shirdi..Me in RED..



At temple..



At Shirdi Bus station..


On the way to Pune from Shirdi..

In train..

In Coimbatore exp..

Here are the details from my shirdi trip last weekend...It was more of a travel than a trip..I traveled almost for 30 hours..20 hours from Bangalore to Pune and then 5 hours to and fro from Pune to shirdi..But it was quite relaxing and filled my soul with new air..

There is Karnataka Express to Koperagaon from Bangalore..Koperagaon is 30 km away from Shirdi..But i could not get a ticket on that..So got ticket for Coimbatore Exp.
I got into Coimbatore Exp at 4 PM and reached pune by 10:30 AM the next day. I came across a huge group students from Mumbai who came to Bang for an Industrial tour...So had some nice time with them chatting and playing cards..Took hot Parota for dinner and retired to sleep..Pune is not as posh as I used to think..Atleast for me it seemed so..Met my friend, took bath and we were back at the station by 12:30 PM. There was a train to Koperagaon from pune at 1:30 PM. .. But since its a passenger train we dont want to depend on that and went to Shivajinagar bu station of Pune..We took a good lunch of hot chapathis there and left for shirdi at 2 PM. It was an awesome view we have got on the Pune-Shirdi highway..There are many valleys and the good thing was..Around every valley there are some 10 houses and the people are farming the land and raising some domestic animals..How cool life seemed to be..May be one day i will go there and live there for some time..

Then we reached Shirdi by 6:30 PM. We proceeded to darshan immediately and completed it by 8 PM. My friend was exhausted and even I did not want to strain myself to go back to pune again at that time..So we had good dinner, took a room and slept in shirdi..

We woke up at 7 AM the next day and after getting ready went to temple and took some photos and it was 9 AM by then. We enquired about going to Shani Singanapoor..We came to know that it can take 3 hours to and fro and I had a flight to catch at 5:30 PM in pune..So the good cab driver advised that it may get difficult to catch the flight..So we curtailed the plans to go to Singanapoor and headed to Shirdi Bus Station..There are 2 routes to Pune from shirdi..One is a shorter router and a little longer, which goes thru Nagar. So we aited for the shorter route bus and We got into the bus at 10 AM. Reached Pune by 2:30 and rushed to lunch..Took a good lunch and I took a fast bath and we started to Aiport by 4 PM. We reached Airport at 4:25 PM and I got in for Check-in. The flight took off at around 5:45 PM and I was back in Bangalore by 6:45 PM. How beautiful its to get that faster. I raced to room to take some rest..

PS: It took me 1 hour 30 minutes to reach from Aiport to my room in Electronic City..Longer than it took from Pune to Bang..No qualms..Bangalore is developing..