MAHABALESHWAR

About Mahabaleshwar 

The jungle of Mahabaleshwar is thick & produces many commercial as well as medicinal trees & plants. The wild life is limited to foxes, jackals, & wild boars. Deers & bisons are found in the brahma aranya area. Panthers are rare. The famous bird in the urdu poetry, Bulbul is found everywhere in the plateau. The weather of Mahabaleshwar & healthy & contains an ideal of 20% oxygen which is often agumented in foggy weather of late summers & early Summer, when the pleateau is covered by thick mist. The water contains a meager percentage of iron which helps to increase hemoglobin in the blood. 

Maharaja Pratapsinha of Satara (1818 to 1839) engineered a scheme to develop M'war as a health resort. sir John Malcolum, the first governer to visit Mahabaleshwar in 1828, established M'war in 1829. Sir Charles Malet, the first resident in Pune darbar of the Peshwas in 1791 happens to be the first european to step on this plateau. 

HOW TO REACH 

By Road : By Road it is connected with a Good Motorable Road and on the way all the facilities are there. You will find Dhabas, i.e. some sort of a small hotel like in open space, where you can wait for some time and relax, after a long drive. It takes atleast 6 Hours from Bombay. The two different Routes are available, which are from Bombay and another from Poona. While starting from Bombay, You have to take the route from Panvel and via Mahad, you will reach Mahabaleshwar. If you are starting from Poona, you can reach Mahabaleshwar Via and takes 2 hours.