Sriwardhan and Harihareswar, Maharastra

It all started when I was going through the TOI Mumbai travel , 5th Nov 2008 edition. So the plan was all set on Wednesday for a trip to Shriwardhan on that weekend. Saturday. we have 5 n 1/2 working days a week. We rapped up our work on Saturday around 3PM. There were 6 of us.

• Shailesh akka Sallu bhai
• Prateek aka 56
• Manoj Kumar - the playboy
• Tamal - the rockstar
• Shaswat - the citi banker
• Navkant, thts me

We had rented an Innova for the trip. Two of our other friend Alok and Sumit also left office along with us. The original plan was to drop them in hte midway at Oberai mall and proceed to Mumbai – Goa highway. We started with full of excitement and booze. These activities induced the other two to proceed ahead with us although they were not carrying any extra clothes or other neccesities. So, the final men count was 8.

• Alok the silent killer and
• Sumit the psychizo guy

Manuevering Mumbai Traffic, we got on to the Mumbai Goa highway at around 5.45PM. There was this show running on weekly top 100 on some FM station. We kept on driving for the next 2 hours listening and corus-ing to that very count down. I had googled enough to find out best places to crash at Sreewardhan. Well I came accross the Shubham beach resort. Its a rocking place. 200 per head can get you everything as per your choice. The old style khatia/ a tree house or a dormi - sea face. Food is also decent at 100/ meal and 20/ breakfast. Contact @9822789258. We had made a reservation for 8. We reached the place around 9PM. The owner of the place, Nadim is a really nice guy who came upto the main city to receive us. We arranged for a camp fire after dinner. Lotsa booze n night stroll followed afterwards.. 4 of us preferred to sleep in the dormi. The other 4 including me chose to climb up to the tree house. It was too cold, middle of night I slipped into the dormi and had a nice sleep.

We all woke up at aroud 9. After having a light breakfast. We all hit the beach with few play tools. Its one of the cleanest beaches. Flat and safe...We really enjoyed it. Afterwards, we decided to also checkout the nearby Harihareswar.

To our utter surprise, Harihareswar was a fundoo place. There is a temple and a small trek uphill will take you to a poit where a set of steps take you to a rocky sea shore. Nice scenic place. We clicked some good pics and heade for Mumbai. On our way back, we stopped midway to trek up to Western ghats...Few more stops and we were back to our huts by nigh 11PM.