I visited jivdani temple in december, 2014 at virar. It was my first Time. I was very excited. As temple is high on the mountain with beautiful view there are two way to go up one is by steps and another is by trolley. I chose to go by trolley it was a great experience traveling by trolley. The temple is maintain well, it has very well cooperative staff. Inside the temple there was great positive atmosphere
Temple opens at 4 a.m.If you walk slow and steady you reach the temple in 1 hour. The lift opens at 7 in d morning.The view up there is very good. Preferably go on a weekday. It is very very crowded on Friday saturday and Sunday.
There are 1475 steps to temple so if you are not physically fit or diabetic or heart patient don’t even think of going via steps. It takes about 1 hr from steps. You will feel nothing for first 20 mins buts after that you will start feeling the pressure and last 100 steps will be impossible to cover.
Temple is very beautiful and darshan are easy.
No restaurant near by by is at around 5 kms from the place.
You can carry mobile, camera etc but cannot use them while darshan.
Parking is also easily available.