Rakmoddin's Travel Blog: Artificial Garden

Butterfly Park - Welcome to the world of winged jewels

Bangalore city is home to the beautiful, wild and colorful creatures called butterflies! It is also credited as the first and foremost butterfly park in India. It was our second day destination of our weekend trip to Bangalore.

Bannerghatta Butterfly Park

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Bhakti Shakti Garden - Nigdi Pradhikaran

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I crossed this Bhakti Shakti Garden many a times while travelling to Mumbai but didn't get an opportunity to visit it, so one day had a evening bike ride to Nigdi from Pune to visit is beautiful garden and most famous evening spot in PCMC. It is also known as “PCMC Chowpati”. This is a government park developed and maintained by PCMC near Nigdi Pradhikaran PCMC bus stop.

Bhakti Shakti Garden

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Pataleshwar Cave, Pune - A Monolithic Architecture

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Pataleshwar Cave is one of the finest masterpiece of rock cut architecture, carved out from a single rock in the 8th century in the Rashtrakuta period. The whole structure is carved out of basalt or black rock.

Pataleshwar Cave, Pune - A Monolithic Architecture

Pataleshwar Cave, Pune, Maharashtra, India

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Gulbarga Fort- An Indo-Persian architecture fort in the Deccan

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Gulbarga Fort, which lies at the heart of the Gulbarga town of North Karnataka, India was originally built by one Raja Gulchand and later fortified by Al-ud-din Bahamani of the Bahmani Dynasty after he cut off his ties with the Delhi Sultanate. It looks strong and a protected monument vast occupying an area of 74 acres with a circumference of 3 Kilometers.

Gulbarga Fort- An Indo-Persian architecture fort, Karnataka, India

Gulbarga Fort, Karnataka,India

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Gulbarga Government Zoo, Karnataka

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Gulbarga Zoo is one of the small zoo located at the center of the Gulbarga City, also known as "Mini Zoo" of Gulbarga. We visited this place on my last trip to Gulbarga in December 2015.

Common Langur in Gulbarga Zoo

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Feroz Shah Kotla Fort in Delhi, India

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Feroz Shah Kotla Fort, one of the haunted forts in India. It is located on Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg in Delhi and was established by Feroz Shah Tughlaq in 1354 on the bank of Yamuna River. The Fort had a Pillared halls, Palace, Mosque and water tank (Baoli).

Feroz Shah Kotla Mosque

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Nek Chand’s Rock Garden in Chandigarh

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Rock Garden is a beautiful garden next to Sukhana Lake in Chandigarh, India, also known as “Nek Chand’s Rock Garden” after its founder Nek Chand. Inside you will find bridges, waterfalls, tunnels, passages and open-air setting.

Nek Chand Saini's Rock Garden, Chandigarh

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Zakir Hussain Rose Garden of Chandigarh

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Zakir Hussain Rose Garden is one of the must visit place of Chandigarh, India and it is Asia’s largest rose garden. On our last visit to Chandigarh we had a delightful opportunity to visit this Rose Garden, which is established in 1967 and located at sector 16 of Chandigarh.

Zakir Hussain Rose Garden of Chandigarh

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Yadavindra Gardens Pinjore Chandigarh - A Mughal Garden of Haryana

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On the start of our Shimla trip, we first planned to visit Pinjore (Yadavindra) Garden in Panchkula district on Chandigarh-Shimla (Ambala-Shimla) national highway 21. Pinjore Garden is one of the must visit place and an important tourist attraction that one can visit when on the holiday to Chandigarh or going towards Shimla from Chandigarh.

Yadavindra Gardens Pinjore Chandigarh - Mughal Garden in Haryana

Pinjore Garden in Haryana

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Shaniwar Wada - The Magnificent Palace of Peshwa's in Pune City

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After exploring Aga Khan Palace we decided to head towards Shaniwar Wada, this place was in our itinerary from long time and as it is nearby place of Pune City hence, it was always move forward in our itinerary list.

Shaniwar Wada - The Magnificent Palace of Peshwa's in Pune City

Shaniwar Wada in Pune city

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Seven Wonders of the world in Yashwantrao Park in Pune

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Yashwantrao Chavan Garden is one of the scenic place inside Pune City near Swargate at Sahakarnagar. It is the place where all the seven wonders of the world brought together in one roof.

Taj Mahal Seven Wonders of the world in Yashwantrao Park in Pune

Taj Mahal in Yashwantrao Garden, Pune

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Katraj Rajiv Gandhi Zoo and Snake Park

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Rajiv Gandhi Zoological Park is one of the most attractive park in Katraj near Pune city, which has a wide variety of reptiles, mammals and few birds.

The snake park has a large collection of snakes, reptiles, birds and turtles. It also has a white tiger which is one of the most attractive part of the zoo.

White Tiger at Katraj Zoo, Pune.

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SavitriBai Phule Garden (Udyan) - A nature park for relaxation

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Jotiba SavitriBai Phule Garden (Udyan) is great initiative by Primpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), which is a scenic relaxation spot for all the professionals working in Hinjewadi Infotech Park, Pune.
Garden is created from the rock land and it has a cheer joy of fresh air and greenery all the time.
Some pictures captured while my visit to this place on this weekend.

SavitriBai Phule Garden (Udyan) - A nature place for relaxation near pune

Families and Children's enjoying the greenery at SavitriBai Phule Garden.

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Tikona Fort and Sunset at Pawana Lake (dam) revisited.

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A quick planning made us to visit the best place near Pune which is around 65 Km and unique place for trekking and water sports(Lohagad Resort and Boating Club), which can be easily visited by bike or personal vehicle.

Me and my friend (Sandeep) started from Pune around 12.30 PM on 08th February 2014 and reached Tikona fort by 2.30 with lot of photo session on the way. Tikona fort (Tikona Peth) is 7 Km from Pawananagar which is the base village for Pawana Dam. Refer my previous blog for road direction till Pawananagar (Pawana Dam) at my-first-bike-ride-to-pawana-lake.

Tikona fort can easily be trekked in 1.5 hour with small breaks, it have a scenic view of Tung, Lohagad, Visapur forts and Backwaters of Pawana Dam from top. It too have small temple at the top.

Now will let the photo speak by words after reaching on the top.

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Mapro Garden Mahabaleshwar

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Mapro Gardens is created by Mapro Foods, which is very popular in Maharashtra state for its processed fruit products like fruit crushes, squash, etc.Mapro has also spread into products like chocolates, honey, gulkand and many more.

Mapro Gardens is located on the road from Panchagani to Mahabaleshwar. It is an open garden restaurant, almost like a resort. The garden restaurant serves various food and (non-alcoholic) drinks to keep you busy through the day.

The best part of their menu are the ice-creams and juices. Since Mahabaleshwar is pretty famous for its strawberries, all their ice-creams have generous portions of fresh strawberries and large enough to fill you up.

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Ambedkar Garden - A cool place for relaxation

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On a busy afternoon while crossing Wadia college in Pune, I found a garden called as "Matoshree Ramabai Bhimrao Ambedkar Garden (Udyan)" which had a scenic and beautiful look, which is developed by Pune Municipal Corporation, where one can enjoy a group chats with friends or simply sit quiet and remember the good memories of past and refresh.

Matoshree Ramabai Bhimrao Ambedkar Garden near wadia college

Entrance of the Garden

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Pune-Okayama Friendship Garden (Pu La Deshpande Udyan)

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It was a good Sunday for me.I did not waste it sleeping whole day and went out with my camera in evening around 4 pm and spent the quality time in Pu la Deshpande Garden which is built in idea of 300 years old korakuen garden of Okayama City.

The place is having finest beauty and artificial nature which made my weekend, It is also known as Pune-Okayama Friendship Garden.

Let the photos take control…

Road map from pune camp to Pune Okayama Garden