We guys(Me, Ajay & Saurabh) used to plan for so many trips and nothing used to happen ..
This was bit different ..Didn't had much plan.. just thought about it 2 days back and moved on.Dhruti told he will also join with us..
Our program is like Mumbai--> Shirdi --> Aurangabad --> Ellora--> Aurangabad -->Mumbai
So here we go..
We booked the ticket from Mumbai to Shirdi by Raj National Express.(It costs us Rs.1680/- for all 4 of us).We dit it online(
http://www.raj.travel/BE_COACH/BECSSR_SearchAvailability.aspx)
The bus leaves Mumbai around 10 and reaches Shirdi by 5.
But believe me, it was as horrible bus, it was not volvo,even though we paid for volvo bus.(No more Raj Natinal Express)
We reached Shirdi by 6 and we took a room in a hotel "Sai Gangothri" to freshen up.The room costs us 1500/- (1350 for Triple occupancy bed room+150 for extra bed)
Every body got freshen up by 7 and we went for Sai Darshan.
(Do remember mobile, hand bags, etc are not allowed in the temple premises, so we kept everything back in the hotel room)
It was not a long queue , so we manged to come out by 8.15.
Then we bought prasad and had brekfast from a hotel near by Shirdi temple, again a bad choice.Food was pathetic and it was not at all hygenic.. :(
On the way back to hotel, we enquired about ticket from Aurangabad to Mumbai and we didn't get it from anywhere.
So we changed our plan and decided to stay in Shirdi for the night, then visit Ellora tomorow and come back to Shirdi then take bus back to Mumbai.
So we booked ticket to Mumbai from Shirdi by Neeta and it costs us Rs. 1600/- for all 4 of us.
After reaching room, we went to Shani Singanapur temple.
We booked a taxi and paid him 650/- for the complete trip + some toll of 30 /- which we paid.
We reached Shani temple around 12. Ajay & Dhruti did the pooja and all. I just roaming around the temple.
We started back to hotel and on the way had lunch from a small place.All of us were very much hungry and the food was quite decent.
We came back in room by 5 or so...Then everybody was tired and went to sleep. We planned to take the same cab to Ellora and the driver told us, it will costs 1300/- for complete trip.We thought that is good price and decided to move with that.
Dinner we had from a good restaurant near temple, i forget the name.
Next day , we started at 7 from Shirdi to Ellora. It was a long jouney of around 3 hours drive.
The driver stopped in a small tea shop for breakfast. another bad choice and our only option was vadapav....
We reached Ellora by 10.30.
To roam around and see the caves we took a rickshaw, it costs us around 150/-We saw almost all the caves, took lot of photographs. and come out from there by 2 only.
it is a nice place..
Then we went to a Hanuman temple near by.
After that we started to Aurangabad and on the way we had lunch from a hotel.
We went to Mini TajMahal in Aurangabad..Nothing great, but a small replica of Taj Mahal.. This is also known as Taj of Deccan.
After visting that, we started our jouney back to Shirdi by 4 PM.
We reahde Shirdi by 7 and took a room in the same hotel to freshen up. it costs us 400/- for just two hours.
Today also we had dinner from the same place where we had yesterday.
then we started our journey back to Mumbai by 10.30 PM..
We reached Mumbai by 4.30 in the morning and the journey as well as the bus was good.
