Madhe Ghat

Madhe Gat

Pune to Madhe ghat 63km (via Pabe khind)
Pune to Madhe ghat 78km (via Nasrapur)

There are two ways to go to Madhe ghat, via pabe khind and via nasrapur. Either of the way you need to reach Velhe village first. So following are the two ways to reach Velhe.

1. Via Pabe khind (68 km)
From pune go towards Sinhagad Road, Khadakwasla Dam, Donje Phata, and Khanapur, Paabe. Once you cross Khanapur you need to take a left turn after around 10 km. you will find a bords indicating the left turn towards Pabe.
After crossing the pabe village after 1 killometer, the road will joins Nasarapur-Velhe Road. From here take right turn, village velhe is around 5km.

2. Via Nasarapur (78 km)
From pune take Satara road (NH4 (Mumbai - Bangalore Highway)), reach shiwapur then keep following the road and you will find a “Nasarapur bipas” form here you have to take a left turn. (there is a sign boards on the left hand side). Once you take a left turn immediately the nasrapur village will come.

Way to reach Madhe Ghat from Pasli

Once you reach Velhe village you need to take first right turn then left. This road goes towards “Pasli” village ( 13 km) . Please ask for direction here, as the turns are little confusing and there are no sign boards.

After reaching Pasli village keep going straight and from here the madhe ghat is 5km. After starting Pasli, go until the “Kelad” village comes, from here you need to take a right turn and this road will directly go to “Madhe Ghat”

The way to madhe ghat goes directly up to the spot from where we can see the waterfall. But I usually park my vehicle near one bridge (see my pictures for more information) as the road after that is not so good. So I prefer to walk for 1 km form this bridge

My Picasa Web album (Madhe Ghat)

Gental Warrning:-

Please do not throw any plastic or any waste. Please take all the waste back with you. This will retain the beauty of the place.

Morachi Chincholi

I have been there along with my wife and my father-in-law, it was a fantastic birding place. We started early in the morning at around 5am from pune. And at around 7 we reached to Mr Thopte's place.

How to reach –
Take Pune-Ahemadnagar highway and travel to Shikrapur, for a distance of 30 kms.
Ask for Malthan phata.
Take left turn at Malthan phata and travel straight to Ganegaon for a distance of 8 kms.
You need to take another left turn from Ganegaon and travel straight to Morachi Chincholi - MAYUR BAUG. Distance is 9 kms.

I got this from the below web site http://www.chincholimorachi.com

He has also arranged one person to collect us, so that we won't go in to the wrong direction. After reaching we took hot tea and moved in to the near by fields. In one field my wife saw 2 peacocks with peahens both were dancing to attract precooks. At this place we settled down so that they will not feel that some buddy is watching them. We almost enjoyed the birding for one hour, during this time both the peacocks were dancing in front of peahens, and for some duration the distance was too close that we can even here the rattle sound of the feathers. We took lot of photographs and videos of dancing peacocks. After this we just roomed in the field and saw lot of peacocks everywhere. Then we went back to Mr Thopte’s place and had a wonderful breakfast. He was very happy to see our snaps and videos. He didn’t even ask for money to us, he just want us to keep the money near to God’s place.
I really like the way these villages are taking care of peacocks, they don’t even visiter to use flash in this case the peacocks got scared. They also feeds the peacocks on daily basis. Infast one person told me that they put more seeds as they know that some of their crop will be eaten by peacocks.

Please visit this link for my snaps

Suggestions:-
I also suggest everybody where you see the peacocks are present, just settle down and wait for them to come, patience is must. But the only object we should have is we are not going to disturb the bird. If you try to go closer, then will go further. Make some distance and while going take some good binocular with you, so that you can get more close view.