Panshet and Kadve khind
One of the beautiful spots near Pune is area around Panshet Dam. The beauty of this place is tree dams as well as three forts.
In history point of view one can understand the beauty of these places. Khadakwasla dam was constructed in 1873 A.D. in order to fulfill the need of water. Because of good geographical conditions in late fifties Panshet dam was constructed. In 1961 it became famous when the dam collapsed and the entire water grabbed Pune city. The historical references say water level touched the wall of Shaniwar wada up to 12 feet�s.
In late sixtees the dam was reconstructed and the name given to the lake formed by this dam is Tanaji Sagar. Interesting thing is just next to this Dam is Varasgaon dam. These two dams are separated by one mountain. Both dams have huge beautiful backwater.
The other interesting story is three forts. On the way from Pune to Panshet one can easily see Sinhgad fort. But at the time of Shivaji, he use to travel across the mountain. The gap between the two mountains, which makes travel easy, is called as �Khind�. If you stand on the Panshet Dam you can very easily observe Kadva Khind. Kadva Khind is around 11 km away from Panshet Dam. This khind had historical importance. From this plase one can view three forts at a time, i.e. Sinhagad, Torna and Raigad. Toy can observe this beauty of three forts from this place very easily.
Let me give you first some details of Panshet.
Panshet
District: Pune
Set in an idyllic location, between Panshet Dam and Varasgaon DAM, Panshet offers you a holiday option that's radically different. There are water sports galore! Kayaking, Windsurfing, Exciting rides in speedboats and on water scooters - all planned to excite the child in you. besides, you can see Sinhagad Fort and Sinhagad National Park, Khadakvasla and the forts Torna and Raigad.
Getting There
By Air :
Nearest airport is Pune, 45 kms.
By Rail :
Nearest railhead is Pune.
By Road :
Mumbai - Pune, 170 kms. Pune - Panshet, 45 kms. [Pune - Khadakvasla - Sinhagad - Panshet].
Accommodation
Government as well as private rest houses are available.
Water Sport facilities are available (Except during Monsoon).
Rambling around the Panshet
- by Dhananjay Joshi
We have enjoyed this trip allot. The snaps are as follows with explanation. We have started our journey at 0630 hrs. We were moving toward west on out bikes from Pune. The road and side seen were beautifull. One special thing of this road is as soon as one crosses the Khadakwasla dam the rest of the road will follow the back water of Khadakwasla dam. Within 1:30 hrs we reached to Panshet Dam.
A beautifull morning view of Sahyadri vally with back water
: My small hut in the vally.
One more interesting thing that one can observe is that there are two dams seperated by a mountain. One of the dam is Panshet Dam and the other one is Varasgaon Dam. Hence one can very easily observe two huge dams at a time from one place.
Top of Dam wall of Panshet
Huge backing to Pnashet Dam
Varasgaon Dam
From the wall of Panshet Dam one can view the beauty of Nature as shown in the pictures.
From Panshet Dam we moved to Panshet village
School boys from Panshet Village playing cricket.
There is a small helicopter lonchpad made near village for VIPs. From this place one can see fort Singhgad and Kadve Khind.
Here we find a beautiful structure of an ant colony; we call it "lotus shaped ant colony"!
Lotus shaped ant colony
From this place we moved toward Kadve Khind.
Again we found ourself in Haven. Now its a back water of Panshet Dam. It is so beautifull tha I acnnot explain in words. We found that backwater of tha Dam is laveled with the road on which we were driving and hence we hailed there. Its bit deep and we could not dare to go in the water.
Chaitanya trying to to analyse deepness!
Chinmay
We spent some time at that beautifull place and had some funny moments.
We found the Khind from our way.
The road was tough to drive double sit. So some of us get down and rest took the vehicles to Khind.
And yes, no doubt , cannot explain, just .......................................
because its beautifull
View from Khind.
From Khind the vally and Sachin
We spent some time at this place. This highted place is really beautifull. From this place one can see Singhgad, Rajgad and Torna.
But because of bad sunlight we were unable to take photographs.
Hence again one more track has been concluded.
All members with bikes.
From left, Chinmay, Dhananjay, Bhalchandra, Manish
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