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Maharashtra travel guides
58 complete guides covering 623 places in Maharashtra, with honest pacing, maps, sources and advice for travelling with parents.
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- Akola6 placesVidarbha's cotton city on the Morna River, with a ruined Mughal fort, an old…
- Alibaug21 placesA coastal town where forts rise from turquoise waters, seafood tastes of salt…
- Aurangabad (Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar)20 placesA living museum of Mughal India: twin cave empires nearby, a white mausoleum…
- Beed5 placesA semi-arid Deccan district town with a Shiva temple standing in a water tank…
- Bhandardara17 placesA British-era dam, a long green lake and the Sahyadri's tallest peaks: a quiet…
- Bhimashankar10 placesA Jyotirlinga temple in a Western Ghats forest: a short pilgrimage, a few quiet…
- Buldhana5 placesA hill-edge district town in Vidarbha, close to Lonar, Shegaon and the forests…
- Chikhaldara8 placesVidarbha's only hill resort: cool Satpura air, valley viewpoints, a ruined fort…
- Chiplun7 placesA Konkan river town on the Vashishti: a hill temple, a ruined estuary fort…
- Dapoli12 placesPalm-fringed beaches, hilltop temples and quiet fishing ports on the southern…
- Devgad7 placesA small Konkan port town with two sea forts, a seaside Shiva temple and long…
- Dharashiv6 placesA quiet Marathwada district town, formerly Osmanabad, with rock-cut caves on…
- Ganpatipule10 placesA small Konkan beach town built around a self-manifested Ganesh shrine, with…
- Harihareshwar12 placesA small Konkan temple town where a Shiva shrine, a rocky sea-shore circuit and…
- Igatpuri12 placesA cool hill town on top of the Thal Ghat: monsoon valleys, an easy hill fort, a…
- Jalna5 placesA working Marathwada city of steel and seeds, with a Nizam-era fort, a…
- Jamkhed6 placesA quiet Deccan town between Ahilyanagar and Beed, with a Nimbalkar fort, a…
- Jejuri11 placesA hill-top temple town where devotees throw turmeric until the steps turn gold…
- Junnar10 placesShivaji's birthplace fort, Buddhist caves, an ancient pass and a ring of…
- Kannad5 placesA quiet taluka town on the Satmala hills, with a ruined hill fort, a forest…
- Karmala5 placesA small Deccan taluka town with a Nimbalkar land fort, a 96-step temple well…
- Kinwat5 placesA forest-edge taluka town on the Painganga: sanctuary country, a hot-spring…
- Kolad18 placesA small river village on the Konkan Railway, known for monsoon rafting on the…
- Kolhapur19 placesA river-plain temple city with a living royal family, a wrestling tradition and…
- Koyna8 placesA big reservoir ringed by Sahyadri forest: a dam, a wildlife sanctuary and a…
- Latur5 placesA flat-planned Marathwada trading city with Ausa and Udgir forts, rock-cut…
- Lonar8 placesA small Deccan town built around a meteor-impact crater, a salt lake and a…
- Lonavala25 placesA green escape above the plains: monsoon waterfalls, Buddhist caves, and cool…
- Mahabaleshwar20 placesA ridge-top hill station where viewpoints frame the valley below, strawberry…
- Malvan11 placesA working fishing town on the southern Konkan coast, with a Maratha sea fort a…
- Matheran17 placesA small hill station on the Sahyadri edge where no cars are allowed: red-earth…
- Mumbai33 placesColonial ramparts and art deco towers, street food and monsoon light, the…
- Murud Janjira13 placesA quiet Konkan shore town facing an island fort that was never taken: boat…
- Nagpur16 placesThe orange city at the centre of India: a calm, spread-out base for Buddhist…
- Nanded12 placesA Godavari river city and one of Sikhism's five Takhts, where a pilgrimage to…
- Nashik18 placesSacred ghats and ancient caves, vineyards and pilgrim rituals, a city folded…
- Navegaon-Nagzira8 placesDry deciduous forest, old irrigation lakes and quiet sanctuaries in eastern…
- Palghar6 placesA coastal district town north of Mumbai, with Portuguese and Maratha forts, a…
- Panchgani12 placesA small Western Ghats hill station built round viewpoints, boarding schools and…
- Pandharpur8 placesA river-bend pilgrim town built around one temple and one tradition: queues…
- Panvel6 placesA rail and road junction on the edge of Mumbai, and the easiest base for…
- Pune24 placesA city of forts and devotion, where Peshwa palaces meet spiritual ashrams, and…
- Ratnagiri13 placesCoastal forts, Alphonso mango orchards, uncrowded beaches and a palace where a…
- Salher5 placesSahyadri's highest fort and the hills around it, where a 1672 Maratha victory…
- Sangli5 placesA Krishna river city known for turmeric, Marathi theatre and Miraj's…
- Satara7 placesThe old Maratha capital under its seven forts: Ajinkyatara, Sajjangad, the Kaas…
- Shahapur6 placesA forest and reservoir town on the edge of the Western Ghats, with a hill fort…
- Shani Shingnapur9 placesA village shrine to Shani with a stone under open sky, houses without doors and…
- Shirdi12 placesA sacred town centred on a saint's memory, where pilgrims gather in the…
- Shirpur5 placesA Tapi-valley town in Dhule district, with a ruined river fort, a…
- Solapur6 placesA dry Deccan textile city with a ruined land fort, a lakeside saint's temple…
- Tadoba14 placesTeak and bamboo forest, a perennial lake and some of India's most watched…
- Tarkarli10 placesClear water, a Maratha sea fort, mangrove backwaters and fish-curry lunches: a…
- Trimbakeshwar11 placesA small temple town at the foot of Brahmagiri, built around a Jyotirlinga and…
- Tuljapur12 placesA hill-town pilgrimage built around the goddess Tulja Bhavani, with queues…
- Vasai5 placesA creekside town just north of Mumbai, with a ruined Portuguese sea fort, an…
- Vengurla6 placesA quiet Konkan port town near the Goa border, with a ruined Dutch factory, a…
- Yawal5 placesA Khandesh taluka town at the foot of the Satpura hills, the base for Yawal…