MATHERAN: An awesome place to visit

This weekend I was in Mumbai. Swati, Danisha and myself went to MATHERAN. Its a small hill station, infact the tiniest one in the world. We took a toy train from Neral, where we parked our car as no motored vehicle is allowed to MATHERAN.
The toy train ride was a great experience with all the scenic beauty of nature all around you. I think such things are better etched in your memory than capturing them in camera. The rawness of these untouched part of earth gets eroded when you see it thru the mechanised eye of an aperture. We did take a few snaps but preferred to look around and enjoy them. As the train moved at a snail pace, it seemed as if we are getting transformed to a different world slowly and steadily, away from the concrete jungle to civilised world of serenity and nature.
When we got down at MATHERAN, we found that it has not many options in mode of transportations, the only options are Horse ride and Hand-pulled cart. We chose neither, we preferred to walk. We had no bookings as it was a very spur-of-the-moment kind of decision to come over here. So went on this hotel hunting and at last we find this hotel with two rooms. It was all that we needed. We were tired after a day long masti at Saguna baug, but the spirits were still high and thats why post dinner we decided to hit the dance floor and not bed. The Hotel DJ sucked but we were no mood to give up and danced even to the Himesh Reshammiya numbers, there were quite a few Foreigners around and even they didn’t mind our HImesh Bhai crooning in his nasal tone. By the time we were done with our dance routine we were dead tired and had to sleep. The next morning, we woke up early, saw SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE walk away with glory at OSCARs. Then we started our roaming. The place is full of mountain views and you need to walk thru the city to understand how beautiful this place is.
We walked a lot from one point to another, but the fresh air in the lungs helped us not to get tired. It has something in the place that makes you feel so very fresh. We were thru with our sight seeing by afternoon. Then we had lunch and bid goodbye to nature, MATHERAN.
Its not a place that promises you with great places to visit but then I would still recommend this place to all. For this is a place that is so very different to all the places that we visit, another thing, this place does not have a mobile tower, so once you are here, you are virtually off reach. What a place to get away from the bustling cities and polluting atmosphere. Life moves at such a pace that you wish you had a life here.