It was a great experience to see fireflies in forest. We had started journey at noon. We were 3 people and one was going to join in mid of journey. One of member from us was driver for our car and we two were doing some stuff like listening songs, discussion, our next plan.
After travelling 90 minutes remaining one member joined us. We met after long time so we were happy and we had some breakfast and started further journey.
We were going second time in Sahyadri. The first experience was thriller and adventurous .I will definitely share that one in next post.
We had started our journey from Alephata now all member were present in car .By travelling 2 hours we reached Randha water fall.
We were going first time for this water fall.The crowd was less. So sowe got some peace .We had some group photos saw site and moved to next journey. After travelling half hour we were at our destination Bhandardara dam.
We visited in summer so water level is low in dam so we were able to saw only Umbrella water fall. Now we got more crowd in dam area. After taking fresh breath in water fall ,we moved to based village Shendi. At 7-8 we had dinner
and booked hotel around 1200 Rs for single night.
Now it was dark night and we were excited to watch fireflies.We started journey to forest after travelling some distance got disappointed due to traffic made by tourist and I was also one of them and feel bad. Then we paid tax to local around 100 RS per car then moved to fireflies area. First we saw 5-6 fireflies. It was very dark night so easily visible. After travelling some distance, we saw one tree which was full of fireflies.It was awesome view everyone should have experience once in their life. Fireflies shows one kind of rhyme or kind of sequence , top of fireflies flashes first then lower and In this way follow to low it look like diwali lighting. But it was light color in dark night. So many people gathered there and started making noise we asked them to stop and lastly we moved forward . Now we were more excited.Me and one friend was stand outside through window. We had awesome view in forest. Then we had discussion with local guy. He asked us to follow him to get more awesome and peaceful view.We started following him but he did not stop for next 5-6 km we got some doubts about him. But finally he stopped at one place that was far from where we started. But the place was very peaceful and had great view. Then we came to know he is loyal. We had some discussion on his family, our place, local problem. And we got to know that they had many problems like education, development, food etc. Then we sat on road saw fireflies from very near .Some fireflies sat on our body also. We had shooted some videos and at 11:30 we started return journey to our hotel now we need to travel near about 15 km. Finally we reached and had rest.
In morning we woke up at 7 clocks. Hotel room was good. It had TV. Had some songs on loud sound, had some dance step. After packing and all we left hotel 9:30 clock. We had breakfast Misal from local road side hotel, had some discussion with senior citizen. Most of them retired from dam service. They were government servant. They asked us to visit dam wall which was near about 10-15 min. Finally after one day we saw empty dam. We got know exact depth of dam but still some water left in dam. We had some pictures and we decided to stay for some time. It was peaceful noon. There were no one expect us. I liked it most we sat on tree (not much height) just kept quiet and experience peace.
Then we left this place with full of memories and started our return journey to sweet home. In the middle of journey had lunch and had some rest to driver. Approximately we reached to home at 6 pm.
Visit Bhandara dam in end of summer or first week of June before rain start to watch fireflies. We had total cost around 2000 per head including all things. Do not travel in night if you don’t know proper path. This area has poor internet .So Google map will not going to work. Travel in day is safe for us. Have full of petrol in vehicle. Petrol pump are less.
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