In search of Krishnabai mandir.. Wai..

This was a ride i did this saturday (15th May 2010) for personal reasons.. thats the reason did not post this in the meets section.
Asked a good friend of mine who readily agreed.
So now we were two riders..
Black Avenger 200 - Tejas
Black P220 - Vaibhav





Decided to meet at Juinagar as Tj was riding from Thane.. Time was decided at 5.30am.. But as fate would have it Tj forgot his bike papers. I reached there at 5.25am and saw his message.. He arrived at around 5.45 and after tying his bag to the bike we started from there at around 6.00am..

Snap i took just before Tj arrived..

We decided to stop for breakfast at Kamaths lonavala.. But i think 7.00am is too early to be in Lonavala.. as Kamaths was just opening and RK "still" had its locks on..
so decided to stop on a road side stall for some light breakfast.. coincidentally we found Tejas hotel
had two vada pavs and a tea..
Tj infront of the hotel named after him..

Kept riding at good speeds.. Lost Tj in some traffic.. so decided to stop after the Katraj Viaduct for him to arrive..
here he is..

Viaduct captured while coming back..

some random captures near Katraj..

On the way Tj saw a Bail Bazaar near Kapurhol.. we decided to check it out.. Sheeps/Bulls/Cows are bought and sold at this bazaar..

Some portraits captured from there..

And where there is an opportunity.. theres got to be some Jugaad..

We left from here after around half an hour or so.. and kept riding towards our destination.. Ride to the Khambatki ghat is always awesome.. but there was some traffic this time around.. I thought i again lost Tj in the traffic but he actually had stopped for clicking some snaps..
I stopped after the ghat waiting for him to arrive..

For going to Wai via NH4 one has to take a right before Satara.. from the highway its just 12kms inside.. the road is a narrow, tree shaded, single road.. Would feel really awesome to ride there during monsoons.. would definitely be there..
Stopped again to click some snaps on the parched summer land..

Reached Wai at around noon.. and went directly to the Dholya(Fat) Ganapati temple.. Its a famous temple on the banks of Dharmapuri Ghat..
Wai is famous for this temple along with the 7 different Ghats.. I visited only 3 of them..
I was actually in search of a smaller temple called Krishnabai mandir..

Kalas of the Dholya Ganapati mandir..

Thats the reason its called the Dholya Ganapati..

Also nearby is the KashiVishweshwar temple..

Some random shots inside the city..

We also visited the Menavali Ghat.. Many serials/movies have been shot here.. including Kaminaay, Ishqiya, Omkara ,Maqbool, Swades etc..
here is a look of one of the serials being shot there..

Some captures of the Menavali Ghat..

Left Menavali ghat in search of a temple called Krishnabai mandir.. It was a tough task but accomplished in finding it..

Work done.. Time to move back to Mumbai..

Stopped at Lonavala at the Wax Museum.. Dint have many expectations but was really amazed to see the work done.. Sorry i forgot the name of the person who has made these statues..I would recommend everyone to visit this atleast once..

It was sweltering hot and our progress was damn slow.. It took nearly 6.5 hours to cover the distance of 250 odd kms..
Reached home at 22:00 hours totally exhausted.. But satisfied