Places visited: Ambejogai, Parali-Vaijanath
Date: 7/2/2009 to 8/2/2009
Purpose: Picnic.
Persons: Harshal, Juilee, Aai, Baba, Amol, Swati.
7/2/2009
Ambejogai is our Kuldevata. Amol and Swati also wanted to get the Darshan and me and Juilee also needed to get the darshan as after marriage we directly went to Mauritius ( without going to Kuldevata ).
Amol and Swati came to our home at 6:00 AM. We were ready with our bags. Devi chya Oti cha saman amhi ghetla hota barobar sagla: Sadi, Khan, Naral, Tandul, Bangdya, Halad, Kunku, Supari, pedhe, safarchand, taat.
We took route from Tambhurni - Barshi - Tandolja - Ambejogai. We reached there at 1:30 PM. It was around 340 KM from Pune. We parked the car behind the mandir and there is Yatrik Lodge just in front of the Mandir Darvaja. Only one room was available there. So we took that room and arranged for 2 extra mats. Immediately we went for lunch, upstairs. It was good taste: Poli, Batata bhaji, Palak bhaji, Amti, bhat, papad.. mast pot bharla. Then we took rest for an hour.
At 5:00 PM, we started from there and went to Parali-Vaijanath temple. It is 22 KM from Ambejogai. The temple has 150 steps to climb. But we took the ghat road and parked the car just in front of the mandir. 
And here my camera started behaving rudely with me. It consumed around 8 batteries in 5 minutes and no photos. I got very angree on it. ( Later I found that its small lithium button cell is drained out. ) The mandir is very good and clean.
And here my camera started behaving rudely with me. It consumed around 8 batteries in 5 minutes and no photos. I got very angree on it. ( Later I found that its small lithium button cell is drained out. ) The mandir is very good and clean.We moved back and reached ambejogai at 8:00. We went to the mandir and deviche darshan ghetle.
We also requested the pujari to open the door so that we can take the photo. He accepted our request.
We also requested the pujari to open the door so that we can take the photo. He accepted our request.Near the mandir, Hotel Krushnai was there which served us very good food. Aai-baba stayed in the room. But as Baba forgot the snack pishvi in one of the shops ( and the shop got closed when he went to pick it up ), they ate Bhel and Son-papdi only. At krushnai we had very good Shev-bhaji and icecreams.
Meanwhile, Baba followed up with the manager of lodge and managed to get one AC room.
In the night, Amol and Swati slept in the AC room and me, Juilee, Aai, Baba in another room. Before sleeping we enjoyed paach-Tin-Don and Challange.
8/2/2009:
In the morning, we all wake up at 5:00 AM. The lodge provides hot water in the taps outside the door. We all took bath and me and Amol ni sovala nesla.. pujaryannich nesavla. We went to the mandir. 
Mandirat abhishek karnyasathi numbers lagle hote. Our abhishek was over till 8:00 AM. After that devi chi oti bharli. After that aarti keli and then Tambul-prasad dila devila.
Mandirat abhishek karnyasathi numbers lagle hote. Our abhishek was over till 8:00 AM. After that devi chi oti bharli. After that aarti keli and then Tambul-prasad dila devila.
Pujari Ausekaranni mala sowla nesavla hota abhishekasathi.
Then we come back to the lodge and ordered pohe, upama and sabudana khichadi. All was good. At 11:00 AM, we started from Ambejogai mandir and went to Sakshi ganpati, which is within 3 minutes from the ambejogai mandir. ( Sakshi ganpati, darshanala yeun gelelya lokanchi nond thevto mhanun tyaala sakshi ganpati mhantat. ). Then we too the road to Tandulja and then to Barshi.
After we passed by Barshi, we started looking for Hotel Vaishali. ( juilee used to eat there when she went to Latur. ) But for half an hour, we could not see Vaishali hotel. So at some good hotel, we stopped. There we had very spicy and tikhat Shev-bhaji and daal fry. Everything was too much spicy. We had buttermilk after the lunch. When we started from the hotel, within 5 minutes we saw Vaishali Hotel. :-D
We reached Pune at 7:00 PM.
After that I prepared Mugachi khichadi, first time in my life. I made it very less masaledar to compensate the afternoon's spices. We also enjoyed SaReGaMaPa final where Kartiki Gayakvad won.
Expenses:
non-AC room = Rs. 350
AC room = Rs. 500
lunch = approx. Rs. 400 ( for 6 persons )
Dinner = approx. Rs. 300 ( for 4 persons )
Water bottles = approx. Rs. 200
Abhishek = Rs. 151
Contacts:
Hotel Krushnai, ambejogai
Phone: (02466)245266, 9326401966, 9763389966
Pujari Vasant Navnath Ausekar
Phone: (02466)248226, 9423470882, 9822475990
Maps:
Pls give me detailed address of Ambejogai temple at yogeshvaishampayan@yahoo.co.in.
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