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The Last Great Trip with a future NRI

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Maharashtra's Religious & Historic tour to Shirdi and Ellora Caves spread over 2 days. We(roomies) always wanted to go for a long trip on our Zen for quite some time. :) Sometimes we planned for Nanded, sometimes "The Great Konkan Beach" circuit but nothing was happening till yet. Finally, the plan to Shirdi was executed with Ajay, Navdeep(baba) and Sid G. :) Plan : Day 1 Start Early, Drive from Pune to Shirdi, Darshan and proceed to Ellora. Spend night at a hotel/lodge near the caves. Day 2: Morning darshan at Grishneshwar Temple, Verul. Visit Ellora Caves, end by 2pm. Proceed to Aurangabad for "Bibi ka maqbara" and Panchaki. On the way back, visit "Shani Shignapur". Drive back to Pune by 9pm. We mostly did "stick" to the plan. As always, we could never start early. :) All Ready We were on road by 9am and reached Shirdi by 2pm battling bad roads and unexpected rain. We went thro' Ahmednagar. There is a d