Got a long weekend and wish to go to a real good place ? Here it is - Saputara.
This small hill station located at the Maharashtra Goa border is an amazing place to be. This Hill station is really small, yet, its fabulous.
It has a lake for boating and a Ropeway where you can experience the ecstacy. These are the 2 major attractions of Saputara.
If you go on the Ropeway, you can view the full of Saputara Hill station. From one end you can go to the other end of the hill. Then take a halt out there for sometime and eat things like Butta, groundnuts which are usually available on all Hill stations. Whenever you wish you can come back to the starting point of the ropeway again.
I had been to Saputara with my family in Nov 2004 which is the best time to be there. We had stayed in Hotel Chitrakoot which is on a mountain.
The other best part of Saputara is food. I am saying this especially for the non-gujrati people.
Whenever, we go out of station we think of eating the normal stuff like veg-kolhapuri, makkhanwala, dum-aalo etc etc, needless to say anything about the non-veg items. But here, there is not a single restaurant which will provide you all these things. You will get only Gujarati Thali out here which is fantastic. You feel as if you are eating ’’Ghar Ka Khana’’ and that too as cheap as Rs 35/- per thali.
I strongly suggest you to be to this small little Hill Station atleast once in your lifetime. It is very close from Mumbai.
ENJOY !!