No...we did not go to Scotland this weekend for our holiday, but only biked down 155 km from Pune to Kaas. This small till-recently a nondescript place near Satara has become famous for its fields of wild flowers of every hue imaginable, which bloom for only a few weeks after monsoons!
You have to go there to experience the beauty of nature at its best - vast patches of white, pink, violet, magenta, green and yellow flowers and grasses shimmering between hardy granite rocks and bubbling streams - and home to hundreds of buzzing bees and butterflies. I am no botanist, and cannot identify the flowers found there, but I sure am a nature lover enough to respect and enjoy nature:)
It was a very nice trip - short and sweet, and the weather was perfect to picnic outside under the mellow sun. Some newspaper reports had mentioned about the irresponsible behaviour of the tourists visiting there - but I was genuinely surprised to see no littering around the plateau, and also hardly anyone was damaging/plucking the flowers. We also went to the Kaas lake and spent a good hour just staring at the placid lake, hoping for its own Nessie to appear:)
Posting a few pictures of hubby and me posing with the flowers:) Will look forward to reading your comments on this soon.
4 comments:
Beautiful place there and very nice flowers! Had you not told in the beginning, people would take it to be straight from Holland or Scottland! I am sure you would have felt all freshen up on reaching there. Picture perfect. A place where mummy would like to go next time when we visit Pune.
So Kaas is a really Khaas place as one can see from the beautiful pics. Knowing your flower-fetish, I am sure you must have brought back a small bunch of wild flowers for your home :).
Seems you hunt down a very exotic place around ghats..even b'ful is the description of ur time spent there.
Lovely pics neha
Yeah - Kaas was a really pretty place. Its amazing that the ghats can become so beautiful during and after rains! Yes Papa - next time you are here, we will plan a trip there for sure.
No didi - we did not pluck any flowers froom thr:) it took a lot of self-restriant, but I managed it.
Shweta - its nice to hear from you after a long time:) Yeah - we keep biking down to some amazing places aroung here:)
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