Places to visit in Maharashtra
239 places to visit in Maharashtra, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Ellora Caves, Ajanta Caves, Chandoli National Park and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Maharashtra volume.
1 Wonders of the world · 18 UNESCO World Heritage sites · 41 National monuments · 16 State heritage sites · 70 Famous places to visit · 12 Offbeat places · 81 Hidden gems
Wonders of the world in Maharashtra (1)
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Ellora Caves
Thirty four temples of three religions cut into one basalt cliff, including Kailasa, carved downward from a single rock.
UNESCO World Heritage sites in Maharashtra (18)
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Ajanta Caves
Thirty caves cut into a horseshoe cliff, painted by monks and then forgotten for a thousand years.
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Chandoli National Park
Plateau forest in the northern Sahyadris, joined to Koyna as the Sahyadri tiger reserve.
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Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya
The Prince of Wales Museum, and its dome.
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Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
Victorian Gothic married to Mughal detail, opened in 1888, and still one of the busiest stations in the country.
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Elephanta Caves
An island of rock-cut temples in Mumbai harbour, reached the way it always has been: by boat.
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Khanderi
An island fort Shivaji took in 1679, off Thal, still with its lighthouse.
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Koyna Wildlife Sanctuary
Forest round the Shivsagar backwater, joined to Chandoli as the Sahyadri tiger reserve.
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Lohagad Fort
The scorpion's tail in the monsoon.
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Panhala Fort
Shivaji's siege, and Baji Prabhu at the pass.
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Pratapgad Fort
Where Shivaji met Afzal Khan in 1659 and left alone, on a spur above the Konkan with the sea visible below.
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Radhanagari Wildlife Sanctuary
Maharashtra's first sanctuary, 1958, in the Kolhapur hills, for the bison.
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Raigad Fort
Shivaji's capital and where he was crowned in 1674, on a plateau reached by fourteen hundred steps or a ropeway.
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Rajgad
Shivaji's capital for twenty six years before Raigad, and a long walk up.
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Salher
The highest fort in the Sahyadris, on the second highest peak in Maharashtra at 1,567 metres.
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Shivneri Fort
The hill fort where Shivaji was born, with the room still shown.
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Sindhudurg Fort
Built in the sea, with Shivaji's handprint in the wall.
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Suvarnadurg
A sea fort off Harnai with a land fort facing it, and a hidden postern in the rock.
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Vijaydurg Fort
The Maratha navy's eastern anchor.
National monuments in Maharashtra (41)
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Aga Khan Palace
Where Gandhi, Kasturba and Mahadev Desai were held from 1942, and where two of the three died.
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Arnala Fort
An island fort off Vasai the Marathas rebuilt in 1737, reached by ferry.
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Aurangabad Caves
Buddhist caves nobody stops for, above the city.
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Balapur Fort
A Mughal fort at Balapur begun by Aurangzeb's son and finished in 1757.
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Bedse Caves
A Buddhist chaitya above the Pawna valley, reached by a stair cut in the hillside.
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Bhaja Caves
Second century BCE Buddhist cells with a stupa group outside, cut before the arch was known in India.
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Bhuleshwar Temple
A thirteenth century Shiva temple on a hill near Yavat, carved and then partly defaced.
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Bibi ka Maqbara
Aurangzeb's son built it for his mother in imitation of the Taj, on a tenth of the budget, and it shows honestly.
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Daulatabad Fort
A hill fort with a moat cut from rock and a spiral tunnel defenders could fill with smoke, never taken by force.
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Gawilghur Fort
A Maratha stronghold high in the Satpuras, taken by the British by assault.
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Ghorawadi Caves
Buddhist caves near Talegaon, also called Shelarwadi, with a chaitya and an inscription.
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Grishneshwar Temple
The last of the twelve Jyotirlingas, beside Ellora.
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Jaigad Fort
A fort above the mouth of the Shastri, with the creek on one side and the sea on the other.
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Jogeshwari Caves
Sixth century Shaiva caves in Mumbai, now reached through a slum and lived around.
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Kanheri Caves
A hundred and nine Buddhist cells cut into basalt over nine centuries, inside a national park inside a city.
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Karla Caves
A Buddhist prayer hall of the first century BCE with a wooden ribbed ceiling that has survived two thousand years.
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Kolaba Fort
A fortified naval base standing in the sea a kilometre or two off Alibag.
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Kondana Caves
Sixteen Buddhist caves near Rajmachi, the chaitya damaged by a landslide and quiet since.
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Kopeshwar temple
A twelfth century Shiva temple at Khidrapur on the Krishna, raised by the Shilahara king Gandaraditya.
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Korlai Fort
A Portuguese fort on a headland at Revdanda, with a village below that still speaks a creole.
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Kothaligad
A small fort east of Karjat at three thousand feet, and one of the easier climbs in that country.
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Kuda Caves
Twenty six small Buddhist caves above the Rajpuri creek, with inscriptions naming the donors.
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Lenyadri
Thirty Buddhist caves near Junnar, one of which holds a Ganesh shrine of the Ashtavinayak.
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Mahakali Caves
Nineteen Buddhist caves cut in the basalt at Andheri, now surrounded by the city.
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Mahuli Fort
The highest point in Thane district, three forts on one ridge, and a hard scramble.
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Mandapeshwar Caves
Eighth century Shaiva caves at Borivali the Portuguese turned into a church.
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Murud Janjira
An island fort never taken in three hundred and fifty years of siege by Marathas, Portuguese and British alike.
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Narnala Fort
A hill fortress in the Satpuras of Vidarbha, standing since the tenth century.
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Padmadurg
One of Shivaji's sea forts, built out in the water to keep watch on Janjira.
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Pandavleni Caves
Twenty four Buddhist caves above Nashik, with inscriptions naming the Satavahana kings who paid for them.
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Pataleshwar Cave Temple
An eighth century Rashtrakuta temple cut from one basalt outcrop, in the middle of a modern street.
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Pitalkhora Caves
Fourteen caves in a ravine in the Satmalas, among the earliest rock-cut work in the Deccan.
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Rajmachi
Two forts on one ridge above Lonavala, walked to through the Kondana valley in the rains.
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Shaniwar Wada
The Peshwa seat, burnt in 1828 so only its walls and gates remain, the largest gate spiked against war elephants.
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Shiv Mandir, Ambarnath
A Shilahara temple of 1060, carved all over, with a sunken sanctum you step down into.
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Sion Hillock Fort
A British fort of the 1670s on a hill that was once the boundary of the island.
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Solapur Bhuikot Killa
A ground fort in the middle of Solapur, one of the oldest things the town has.
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Tomb of Aurangzeb
An unmarked grave at Khuldabad, left plain by his own instruction, in the courtyard of a Sufi shrine.
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Trimbakeshwar
A Jyotirlinga, and the Godavari's source.
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Vasai Fort
The Portuguese Baçaim, taken by the Marathas in 1739 and left to the banyans since.
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Visapur Fort
The waterfall staircase everyone climbs in July.
State heritage sites in Maharashtra (16)
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Banganga Tank
A freshwater tank of 1127 a hundred metres from the sea, fed by an underground spring nobody has traced.
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Castella de Aguada
The Portuguese watchtower at Bandra, 1640, and the reason the suburb has a fort road.
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Deekshabhoomi
Where half a million people converted in one afternoon.
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Dharashiv Caves
Seven rock cut cells in the Balaghat hills outside Dharashiv.
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Gateway of India
Built to welcome a king, used to bid the empire goodbye: the last British troops left through it.
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Kandhar Fort
A fort in Nanded district, put up by the Rashtrakuta king Krishna the Third.
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Korigad
A hill fort south of Lonavala at 923 metres, older than 1500.
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Mahim Fort
A Portuguese fort at the mouth of Mahim creek, ruined and built into.
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Mahur Fort
A fort at Mahur that is also the seat of Renuka, and busier with pilgrims than with anyone else.
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Naldurg Fort
A fort built around a knoll of basalt at Naldurg, named for the king who raised it.
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New Palace, Kolhapur
Built for the Kolhapur rulers between 1877 and 1884 in black polished stone, with gardens around it.
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Panhalakaji Caves
Twenty nine caves in Ratnagiri that went from Buddhist to Nath over a thousand years.
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Sinhagad Fort
Taken in a night assault in 1670 by men who climbed the cliff with rope and a monitor lizard, or so the story goes.
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Torna Fort
The first fort Shivaji took, at sixteen.
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Tulja Bhavani Temple
A twelfth century temple to Bhavani above Tuljapur, counted among the fifty one Shakti Pithas.
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Udgir Fort
A fort in a ditch rather than on a hill, with a dry moat cut into the rock round it.
Famous places to visit in Maharashtra (70)
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Ahmednagar Fort
The Ahmednagar Sultanate's own fort, taken by the British in 1803 and later used to hold prisoners.
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Akkalkot
The town where Swami Samarth sat under a banyan tree for twenty two years, and the shrine that grew around it.
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Alandi
Dnyaneshwar's samadhi, and the palkhi's start.
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Alibaug Beach
Kolaba fort walked to at low tide.
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Amboli
The wettest place in Maharashtra, and its frogs.
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Aundha Nagnath Temple
A Shiva temple held by many to be one of the twelve Jyotirlingas, its carved stone walls and sanctum from the Yadava period. The Maratha style spire came later, in a renovation credited to Ahilyabai Holkar.
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Bandra Bandstand
The fort, the sea wall and the queue outside Mannat.
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Bandra Worli Sea Link
Cable stayed across Mahim Bay, its steel wire long enough to circle the earth, opened in 2009.
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Bhandardara
Arthur Lake, Randha Falls and the Milky Way.
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Bhimashankar
One of the twelve jyotirlingas, in forest that is also the last stronghold of the Indian giant squirrel.
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Chaitya Bhoomi
Where Ambedkar was cremated in 1956, and where lakhs come on the sixth of December.
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Chikhaldara
The only hill station in Vidarbha, and coffee grows there.
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Chor Bazaar
A century and a half of secondhand everything, from ship fittings to gramophone horns, off Mohammed Ali Road.
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Crawford Market
Opened in 1869, with friezes over the entrance carved by Rudyard Kipling's father, who taught art in the city.
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Dagdusheth Halwai Ganpati
Founded by a sweetmaker who lost his son to plague in 1893, and the centre of Pune's Ganesh festival ever since.
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Dapoli
A Konkan town on a plateau above the sea, with the Harnai fish market below it and Murud and Karde beaches either side.
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Devkund Waterfall
A plunge waterfall near Bhira in Raigad, dropping straight onto the rock below.
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Gilbert Hill
A column of black basalt sixty metres high standing in the middle of Andheri, left over from the lava that made the Deccan.
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Girgaum Chowpatty
The city beach at the end of Marine Drive, where Ganpati goes into the sea every September and the bhelpuri stalls never close.
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Global Vipassana Pagoda
A stone dome ninety six metres across, built without pillars in the Burmese manner, seating eight thousand.
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Haji Ali Dargah
A shrine on an islet reached by a causeway that the sea covers at high tide, so visits are timed by the moon.
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Harihar Fort
Eighty degree rock cut steps, and no railing.
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Harishchandragad
A fort with a temple, a cave and the Konkan Kada, a cliff that curves back over itself.
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Hazur Sahib
One of the five takhts of Sikhism, on the Godavari at Nanded, built by Ranjit Singh.
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Jayakwadi Dam
An earthen dam on the Godavari at Paithan, built to carry water into the dry Marathwada country.
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Jyotiba Temple
Pink gulal thrown by the sackful.
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Kailasa Temple, Ellora
Carved downwards out of a single cliff until a whole temple stood free of the rock, courtyards and all.
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Kalsubai
The highest point in Maharashtra, ladders and all.
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Khadakwasla Dam
The dam on the Mutha that Pune drinks from, with the National Defence Academy along its bank.
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Koyna Dam
A rubble and concrete dam in the Western Ghats, on a river that starts up at Mahabaleshwar.
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Lalbaugcha Raja
The public Ganesh of Lalbaug, who gives darshan for eleven days and then goes into the sea at Girgaon Chowpatty.
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Lonar Crater
A lake in a meteorite crater fifty thousand years old, both saline and alkaline at once, which should not be possible.
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Lonavala
The Sahyadri gap the old trade route used, green for four months a year and dry brown for the rest.
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Madh Fort
A Portuguese fort on the Madh peninsula, held by the air force and seen from the beach.
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Mahabaleshwar
The Bombay Presidency's summer capital at thirteen hundred metres, source of the Krishna, and strawberries since the fifties.
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Mahalaxmi Temple
One of the Shakti Peethas, and the Kiranotsav.
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Malanggad
A hill fort in the Matheran range above Thane district.
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Mandhardevi Kalubai temple
A hill shrine above Wai at 4,650 feet, looking across at Pandavgad and Purandar.
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Marine Drive
Three kilometres of curved seafront whose streetlights earned it the name the Queen's Necklace.
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Matheran
The only hill station in Asia where no motor vehicle is allowed, reached on foot, on horseback or by toy train.
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Mount Mary Church
The basilica above Bandra, with a fair in September and a statue found in the sea.
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Mumba Devi Temple
The goddess the city is named for, moved twice and now in a lane off Zaveri Bazaar.
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Mumbai Trans Harbour Link
Atal Setu, eighteen kilometres of road across Thane creek, and the longest sea bridge in the country.
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Naneghat
A two thousand year old toll gate through the ghat.
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Nawegaon National Park
A park in Gondia where about six in ten of all the bird species in Maharashtra have been counted.
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Panchgani
Five hills above the Krishna valley, with a flat volcanic tableland said to be the second largest in Asia.
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Pandharpur Vitthal Temple
The end of the wari, on foot, in July.
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Parvati Hill
A Peshwa temple complex above Pune, a hundred and three steps, and where the Peshwa watched Kirkee lost.
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Pavana Lake
The reservoir behind the Pavana dam, twenty five kilometres out of Lonavala.
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Purandar Fort
Where the treaty was signed that Shivaji broke, and where Sambhaji was born.
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Rajiv Gandhi Zoological Park
Katraj zoo at Pune, a hundred and thirty acres holding an animal orphanage and a snake park.
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Ramtek
Where Rama is said to have rested, and Kalidasa wrote.
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Rankala Lake
A freshwater lake in the middle of Kolhapur.
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Ratangad
A fort above Bhandardara with a hole clean through the rock at its top, called the eye of the needle.
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Sajjangad
The fort near Satara where Sant Ramdas spent his last years and was laid to rest.
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Salsette
The island Mumbai and Thane both stand on, and among the most crowded pieces of land on earth.
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Sanjay Gandhi National Park
A hundred square kilometres of forest inside the city limits, with leopards that live on its edges.
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Saptashrungi
Half a Shakti Peetha, up four hundred and seventy steps.
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Shani Shingnapur
A village that does not fit doors.
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Shirdi Sai Baba Temple
Built over the samadhi of a teacher who refused to say whether he was Hindu or Muslim, and drew both.
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Shri Vaijnath Temple
One of the twelve jyotirlingas, at Parli, where men perform the abhishekam bare above the waist.
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Siddhivinayak Temple
Built in 1801 by a woman who had no children of her own, so that others might, and now queued round the block.
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Sula Vineyards
The harvest, and the reason Nashik is on a map.
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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve
Teak and bamboo around a lake, and among the most reliable places in India to see a tiger in daylight.
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Tamhini Ghat
The mountain road from Pune to the Konkan that turns into a wall of waterfalls every monsoon.
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Taraporewala Aquarium
India's oldest aquarium, on Marine Drive, with a glass tunnel you walk through.
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Ujjani Dam
An earth and masonry dam on the Bhima near Ujjani, holding the water Solapur district farms with.
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Upvan Lake
A lake in Thane where the Ganpati idols come on the last day of the festival.
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Vasota Fort
A fort in Satara district, called Vyaghragad, which means the tiger fort.
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Zero Mile Stone
The point every distance in British India was measured from.
Offbeat places in Maharashtra (12)
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Kasara ghat
The climb the Mumbai to Nashik road and railway both make up the Western Ghats.
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Khandala
A hill station above the ghat, known to everyone who has ever bought chikki on the way to Pune.
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Madhe Ghat
A waterfall southwest of Pune with Torna, Rajgad and Raigad all in the same country.
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Pandavkada Falls
A plunge of a hundred and seven metres behind Kharghar, on the edge of Navi Mumbai.
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Shahayadri Tiger reserve
Maharashtra's tiger reserve in the Sahyadris, declared in 2008.
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Shivasagar lake
Fifty kilometres of water behind the Koyna dam, eighty metres deep in places.
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Tansa Wildlife Sanctuary
Three hundred and twenty square kilometres around the Tansa catchment, north of Mumbai.
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Toranmal
A hill station in the Satpuras of Nandurbar, with a yatra to its Gorakhnath temple.
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Vajrai Waterfall
A waterfall on the Urmodi river near Bhambavli, twenty seven kilometres from Satara.
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Varandha Ghat
The old road down from the Deccan into the Konkan, cut along the crest of the ghats.
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Vetal Hill
The highest ground inside Pune, with the temple of Vetala at the top of it.
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Vihar Lake
Mumbai's oldest water supply, dammed in 1860 and now sitting inside the national park.
Hidden gems in Maharashtra (81)
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Afghan Church
Built in memory of the dead of the first Afghan war, with their names on the chancel walls.
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Ajanta Cave 26
A chaitya hall with a reclining Buddha seven metres long carved into its side wall, and ribs cut to look like timber.
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Ajanta Viewpoint
The horseshoe gorge seen whole from across the ravine, which is how a British hunting party found the caves in 1819.
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Ajinkyatara
The fort above Satara, Shivaji's capital for a time, with the city laid out below it.
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Aksa Beach
The far end of Malad, with a warning about the undertow that people ignore.
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Alang Fort
One of three forts on one ridge near Kalsubai, and the hardest of them to get up.
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Amba Ghat
A ghat road in the Sahyadris on the way to Ratnagiri, with mist for half the year.
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Anjaneri
The hill where Hanuman is said to have been born, with caves and a plateau above Nashik.
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Anjanvel Fort
Gopalgad, standing above the water at Anjanvel in Ratnagiri district.
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Ankai Fort
A fort of the Yadavas of Devgiri in the Satmala hills near Manmad.
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Asiatic Society Steps
Thirty Doric columns in the middle of the fort.
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Asiatic Society of Mumbai
The Town Hall of 1833 with thirty Doric columns and one of two copies of the Divine Comedy's first edition.
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Babulnath
A Shiva temple on a hillock above Girgaum Chowpatty, up a hundred steps or a lift.
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Ballarpur Fort
A Gond fort on the Wardha, brick and stone, in a town now known for paper.
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Baramotichi Vihir
A stepwell at Limb built between 1719 and 1724 by a wife of Shahu Maharaj, to water the garden.
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Belapur Fort
A Portuguese fort in Navi Mumbai, taken by the Marathas and then the British, now mostly gone.
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Bhatghar Dam
One of the oldest dams in Maharashtra, built by the British on the Velvandi near Bhor.
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Bhigwan
Flamingos on the Ujani backwaters.
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Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary
The giant squirrel's last stronghold.
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Bombay Castle
The Portuguese Manor House the English rebuilt into the fort the city grew round, now naval and closed.
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Chandwad Fort
A fort three kilometres out of Chandwad in the Nashik hills.
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Chaturshringi Temple
A temple on a hillside in Pune, a hundred steps up, with a fair in Navratri.
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Chaul
A port the Portuguese held and the Marathas took, now a village with a church tower in the fields.
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Dabhosa Falls
A fall of a hundred metres near Jawhar, in the Palghar hills.
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Daimabad
A Harappan site on the Pravara where four heavy bronzes were ploughed up in 1974.
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Devgad
The alphonso, at its source.
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Dhodap Fort
The second highest fort in the Sahyadris, at 1,472 metres above Hatti village.
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Dhom Dam
An earth and gravity dam on the Krishna near Wai.
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Dongri Fort
A small fort in the Dongri quarter of Mumbai, looked after now by the neighbourhood around it.
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Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum
Mumbai's oldest museum, 1872, restored to its gilt and its Minton floor.
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Elephanta Island
An hour by boat from the Gateway, holding a six metre Trimurti cut into basalt in the fifth century.
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Ganpatipule
A temple on the beach where the deity faces west, and one of the cleanest stretches of Konkan sand.
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Gateway of India Jetty
Where the boats leave for Elephanta, and where the last British troops embarked when they left India in 1948.
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Ghodbunder Fort
A Portuguese fort above the Ulhas at Thane, later Maratha, and later still a Company office.
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Gorakhgad
A fort near Murbad whose caves were used by hermits rather than soldiers.
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Harihareshwar
The Dakshin Kashi, and the rock walk around the headland.
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Jama Masjid, Mumbai
The city's principal mosque, built over a tank that is still under the prayer hall.
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Jivdhan
A hill fort at 1,145 metres in the Sahyadris above Ghatghar.
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Kalavantin Durg
A pinnacle beside Prabalgad with steps cut into it and nothing on either side.
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Kaldurg Fort
A small hill fort near Palghar, an easy walk, and a good first fort.
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Karnala Bird Sanctuary
Small, wet, and on the Mumbai-Goa road, with a hundred and fifty species and a fort above it.
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Karnala Fort
A thumb of rock above the Panvel road with a fort round it and a bird sanctuary below.
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Kashid Beach
White sand three hours from Mumbai.
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Kune Falls
A fall in three tiers seen from the Mumbai-Pune expressway, and from Lonavala.
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Mahalakshmi Temple, Mumbai
Three goddesses facing the sea at Breach Candy, and the oldest temple in the city.
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Mahalaxmi Dhobi Ghat
Seven hundred open air washing pens worked by hand since 1890, best seen from the bridge above.
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Malhargad
A hill fort near Saswad named for the god Malhari, and the last one the Peshwas built.
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Malshej Ghat
Flamingos, waterfalls and cloud on the road.
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Mani Bhavan
The house on Laburnum Road Gandhi stayed in between 1917 and 1934, now his museum.
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Marve Beach
A beach at Malad where the ferry leaves for Manori.
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Melghat Tiger Reserve
One of the first nine tiger reserves.
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Morbe Dam
The dam on the Dhavari that Navi Mumbai drinks from.
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Morgaon Ganesha Temple
The first and last of the Ashtavinayak, in a village shaped like a peacock.
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Mulshi Dam
A dam on the Mula west of Pune, whose water is dropped down the ghat to make power at Bhira.
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Nagzira Wildlife Sanctuary
Small, dense, and full of everything but crowds.
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Nandur Madhmeshwar Bird Sanctuary
A wetland where the Godavari meets the Kadva, called Maharashtra's Bharatpur.
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Panshet Dam
A dam on the Ambi southwest of Pune, one of four that together keep the city in water.
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Phansad Wildlife Sanctuary
Coastal forest in Raigad that was the Murud princes' shooting ground.
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Powai Lake
An artificial lake of 1891 with crocodiles in it and an engineering institute on the bank.
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Prabalgad
A fort between Matheran and Panvel, with Kalavantin's pinnacle beside it.
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Radhanagari Dam
The dam Shahu Maharaj began on the Bhogawati in 1907.
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Rajgruha
Ambedkar's house at Dadar, built for his library of fifty thousand books.
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Ramkund
A bathing tank on the Godavari where the Kumbh is held every twelve years, and where ashes are immersed year round.
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Ramsej
A small fort north of Nashik that Aurangzeb's army attacked in 1682 and could not take quickly.
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Ratnagiri Fort
Ratnadurg, on the headland above Ratnagiri, with the Bhagawati temple inside it.
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Salim Ali Lake
A Mughal tank at Aurangabad renamed for the ornithologist, with a bird park round it.
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Sassoon Docks
Five in the morning, and the whole city's fish.
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Sawantwadi
Ganjifa cards and lacquered wooden fruit.
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Sevagram Ashram
Gandhi's last ashram, and his hut.
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Shinde Chhatri
Mahadji Scindia's memorial at Wanowrie, Anglo-Rajasthani, with the cremation platform inside.
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Sitabuldi Fort
The hill in the middle of Nagpur where the Bhonsles lost to the British in 1817.
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St Patrick's Cathedral, Pune
A cathedral of 1850 in the cantonment, and the seat of the diocese.
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Tarkarli Beach
Clear water and a sand spit where the Karli river meets the sea, with scuba over the Sindhudurg reef.
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Thanale Caves
Twenty three Buddhist caves above the Sudhagad valley, reached through a stream bed.
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Tikona Fort
A triangle above the Pawna backwaters.
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Tulja Caves
Buddhist caves near Junnar with a circular chaitya ringed by twelve pillars.
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Tulsi Lake
One of the three lakes that water Mumbai, inside the national park and closed to visitors.
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Tung Fort
A steep cone of a fort in Pune district, called Kathingad, which means the difficult one.
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Vajreshwari Temple
A temple built on a hill of volcanic rock by a Maratha general, near the hot springs at Ganeshpuri.
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Venna Lake
A lake dug by a Satara raja in 1842 at Mahabaleshwar, with boats and horses round it.
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Worli Fort
A small British fort of 1675 on a rock above a fishing village, now surrounded by the city it was built to watch.
Collecting in Maharashtra
What are the best places to visit in Maharashtra?
LOQAH lists 239 places in Maharashtra. The best known include Ellora Caves, Ajanta Caves, Chandoli National Park, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya and Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Maharashtra?
239, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Maharashtra?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Maharashtra before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Maharashtra and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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LOQAH is free on iPhone and Android, in India and 20 more countries, with more countries on the way. Stand at a place, collect its stamp, and keep every trip in a passport that grows.