Matheran - The Destination For A Unique Experience With Nature The smallest hill station in India with beautiful landscape and pollution free air, this place is a once in a lifetime experience taking you back a century in time due to its automobile free practice. This is the perfect place to have a rendezvous with nature undisturbed. This article talks of the uniqueness of the place and what you can expect of the place.
This beautiful tourist surrounded with thick luscious greeneries and picturesque landscape is the smallest hill station in India. Set in the state of Maharashtra and located just 90 km from Mumbai city and 120 km from Pune making a convenient weekend getaway for the folks in and around Maharashtra and the neighbouring states. Matheran is the place to go if you are looking for a cool, calm and relaxing holiday. Matheran is beautiful not only for its landscape but also its ambience. It
is one among the few places in the world and the only place in the whole of Asia where automobiles are not allowed which results in a calm and serene ambiance even in the presence of the thousands of visitors that come and go from this place every year. Matheran hotels, business ventures and stalls selling souvenirs are also benefiting well from the tourist attraction this place is getting. This region is an eco-sensitive region declared by the ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of India, which is why an entry fee to Matheran of INR50 for adult visitors and INR25 for children is charged whose proceeds go to the upkeep of the place considering its fragile ecosystem. There are close to 38 designated look-out points in Matheran including a panorama point which provides a 360 degree view of the surrounding area.
In the present world where we have all sorts of means and ways for commuting and travelling, this place will definitely be a rare experience of a lifetime for you because you will be taken back to the primitive days where there were no cars and all the commuting near or far were done one foot. It will definitely make you have an epiphany of how much technologies and other day to day equipments we are dependant on. You will amazed to see the whole mass all on foot and get to breathe unpolluted air, which is rare to find anywhere around the world now. The only pollution you will find in this part of the land is when the delicious kebabs are grilled in the open fire ready to be sold. There is also an abundance of eatery outlets in and around Matheran serving both vegetarian and non vegetarian dishes. Matheran has a special toy train which connects it to the various cities and towns nearby. To reach here you could either take a train or an Indigo, Air India or Jet airways flight to Pune and then stop down at Neral where you would have to catch the toy train to Matheran and begin the ride of your extraordinary journey to be.
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