Tuljapur

This post is about our visit to Tuljapur Bhavani maa temple in Osmanabad district of Maharashtra.

Dates: 18 & 19-Jun-2016

Tuljapur is around 270 kms from Pune where we are living now. Instead of a 6hrs drive, we decided to travel in train till Solapur and look for onward journey to Tuljapur which is 45 KMs away from Solapur.

We 3, (my wife, son & myself) started from Pune on 18-Jun-2016 (Saturday) around 8am, seated comfortable in Intercity express departed at 9.30am.

and reached Solapur just before 2 in the afternoon.  Though there are frequent buses to Tuljapur, which means we need to go to bus stand from Railway station, instead we hired a cab to drop us at MTDC resort where I made online booking (3 days ahead) for our stay.

Smooth journey to Tuljapur, 4 lane construction works in progress. Handful of speed brakes here & there.

By 4pm, inside MTDC resort;Though the room & stay are comfortable, though the staffs co-operating & assisting well, but you need to ask them for ricksaw / coffee / tea etc. which they get from outside and serve you, with 3 times electricity cut in the night. More options for boarding & lodging available just in front of temple - not sure about the comfort.

After an hour relax & freshen-up, off to temple by 5pm which is not too far away from MTDC (but we took an auto-ricksaw).

Tulja Bhavani mandir on the background.

Steep steps, where you claim down for the main sanctum; though not crowded but still follow the queue; At MTDC the person told that "Belts not allowed", but there's no checking at the entrance. Even guards did not check/restrict for mobile phone camera etc. We saw a person wearing "lungi" in the queue.

By 6.30 evening, we finished darshan and were relaxing just outside the main sanctum.

A big "ambi theater ?" for people to relax.

Exit from temple (where fotos not allowed in front of the security guard, hehehe).

 Shopping in the narrow lanes outside the temple;

After dinner reached MTDC by 8.30pm. We sure had a very good darshan on Saturday.

The next day, Sunday 19-Jun, started by 9am from resort for break fast, walk and to visit around temple.

Juice corner; There are quiet handful of  boarding & lodging facilities available near the temple.

There's a GHATSHEEL temple next to MTDC resort, which I heard there's a Shivalinga but I feel it may be a Shaneeswar temple as I can relate this black stone (picture below) to Shani Signapur near Shirdi.

Check out at 11am, lightning visit to Papanaash theertha and off to Solapur in a cab.

 Lunch in a hotel at Solapur station.

 Train intercity to Pune at 2pm and reached Pune by 6.

Thank you.