My family trip Hyderabad to Shirdi, Shanishinganapur, Triumbakeshwar,Nasik,Ellora, Grishneshwar
I went for a 3 day trip from Hyderabad to Shirdi and other near by places.
We started on Monday night and returned to Hyderabad on Saturday Morning.
While going i booked AC sleeper from Orange travels (Cost per ticket around 1500), boarded bus in front of Asian Mall near BHEL @ 09:50 PM. Bus came on time, slept well and was dropped in Shridi around 8:00 am.Auto wala took 60 rupees from location i was dropped to Golden View hotel. Bus is awesome, no complains. They gave water bottle and a snack.
Golden View Hotel - I used Agoda online app to book room (Deluxe Triple Bed), it costed me 2350 per day. I recently returned from USA, to me this hotel is clean and good, i would not say wow, awesome crazy buzz words but i liked staying with my family (we are 4, 2 kids less than 11 years and me, my wife). The main advantage, this hotel is right in front of Template, we saved lot of time and felt safe my wife going alone for shopping and returning to room. Hotel rating 4/5.
Food - There is a hotel right in front of Golden view hotel (sorry forgot name), note it is not below golden view, it is good, will rate 4/5 and best hotel was woodlands, you have to walk like quater KM from this hotel, it is 4.5/5. Dominos pizza was nice, 4.25/5, it is right infront of golden view.
Template visit - Took ticket, i think 200 per one person, for kids free, one person in our trip was 13 years, but temple folks did not bother much allowed him as child.
Tried for haarathi @ 12:00 by getting in to line @ 11;30 but we were late by 15 mins.
Darshan over in 1.5 hours.
After template visit, took cab by talking to hotel management and went to shanishinganapur. Start time - 3:00 PM, returned 9:00 PM. Buy template pooja items right infront of the temple line, others will take more money from you.
Next day, booked a cab to Triumbakeshwar and visited template. 1 hour temple line. The Cab driver did not take us to Godavari origin place on hill due to time constraints, but it is must place to visit.
While returning, we stopped @ Nasik. Cab driver introduced us to autowala's saying car can not go to all templates around small road lanes. Autowala took us around some temples in Nasik, its waste of time, auto wala are cheating us. Only 2 places to visit in Nasik, Kaala Ram & tri-venisangamam, rest all waste of time. Go by your self, dont listen to auto walas in nasik. Returned to shirdi.
3rd day, started to Ellora early morning 7:00 am reached by 11;00 am, Grishneshwar darshan was 30 minutes. Remember male person have to remove their shirt ( bare above waist) only then you will be allowed in to temple.
And then stopped by Ellora Caves, fantastic place, once in timelife must visit, amazing place, one had to spend at least 6 hours here. Lot to walk, for elders it is going to be tuff walking so take wheel chairs if possible. No food inside, so carry food with you, returning back for food and again entering in to ellora caves is time consuming and tiring.
Evening @ 8:50 boarded Train from Aurangabad to Hyderabad train. Reached Hyd by morning 7am in lingampally hyderabad.