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A) Driver driving your vehicle

Pune – Chandani Chowk – Pirangut – Paud – Mulshi – Tamhini Ghat – Vile Phata (Diversion), 79 kms – Just ahead of this diversion, look for a very small hotel (dhaba) called Deep Sahyadri to satisfy yourselves that you are on the correct route – little ahead to the right a road leads to Vile Village which is to be avoided – continue ahead, take a right turn (lookout for this turn which slopes downwards, just after the railings). Continue ahead till you see a bridge. Turn left just before the bridge. You will see unfinished / under construcion structure and river Kundalika flowing behind it. This is your Rafting Start Point which is Saje village. After dropping you at the Rafting Start Point, your driver will be guided by our staff to reach Rafting End Point by road in Sutarwadi, to pick you up after your Rafting session is over.

B) You are driving your own vehicle.

Please note that Parking your vehicle at our office is for safety of your own vehicle. Though you would be Parking the vehicle at your own risk, this is what we recommend to our valued clients.

Some Important Distances (from Pune)

(Distances are approximate. You can set your odometer reading to 0 at Chandani Chowk)

Place

kms

Pune (Chandani Chowk)

0

Manas Resort

5

Hotel Shivsagar / Dishas Dhaba

34

Vinzai Devi (Tamhini) diversion

48

Garud Machi

61

Vile Phata

79

1) If you are having a driver with you

Pali Phata (look for railings on right, turn right immediately after railings are over. Note that this road slopes downwards)

82

Then continue on this road on the road. Turn left just before the bridge. Unfinished civil construction is your Rafting start point)

2) If driving your own vehicle

Empower Camps (on the left)

88

Sutarwadi Village (our office)

92

(You may park your vehicle here and then take six seaters to reach the Rafting start point)

Please follow the route :

From Panvel (distance 95 kms.)

A) Driver driving your vehicle

Take the NH 17 Goa Highway road till Kolad. 1 km after the Kolad Market turn left on the NH 60 on to the Pune highway. Continue till village Sutarwadi and report at Mercury Office (Mercury office is on the left hand side of the road in Sutarwadi Village). Landmark : Opp. Empower “Office” in Sutarwadi (please note that Empower “Campsite” is 6 kms. ahead of Sutarwadi village). Your driver will drop you till Rafting start point which is around 12 kms from our office. After dropping you at the Rafting Start Point, your driver will be guided by our staff to reach Rafting End Point by road, to pick you up after your Rafting session is over.

Take the NH 17 Goa Highway road till Kolad. 1 km after the Kolad Market turn left on the NH 60 on to the Pune highway. Continue till village Sutarwadi and report at Mercury Office (Mercury office is on the lefthand side of the road in Sutarwadi Village). Landmark : Opp. Empower “Office” in Sutarwadi (please note that Empower “Campsite” is 4 kms. ahead of Sutarwadi village).

If you are driving your vehicle (ie no driver), then you should be parking your vehicles at our office. Get in touch with our River Guide here who would help you to organize “six seater” vehicles to drop you to Rafting Start Point (around 16 kms from here) and pick you up from Rafting End Point to bring you back till your parked vehicle at our office. The charges for hiring “six seater” will have to be paid by the guests directly to the “six seater” driver. Currently the charges for the same, charged by the driver, are Rs. 350/- to Rs. 400/-. Note that these are charges for full vehicle and NOT per person charges.

Please note that Parking your vehicle at our office is for safety of your own vehicle. Though you would be Parking the vehicle at your own risk, this is what we recommend to our valued clients.

Some Important Distances (from Panvel)

(Distances are approximate)

Place

kms

Panvel

0

Pen

28

Vadkhal Naka (from here, continue towards Goa. Avoid Alibag

32

route)

Palas Resort (on your right side)

47

Kamath Residency (on your right side)

50

Nagothane

53

Wakan Phata (continue towards Goa, avoid road to Pali)

54

Kolad

69

Diversion for Pune / Mulshi / Sutarwadi (Leave Goa Highway here)

70

Turn left here.

Sutarwadi Village (our office)

79

(You may park your vehicle here and then take six seaters to reach the Rafting start point if you are not having a driver with you.)

Those having a driver can continue ahead towards rafting Start Point. Please speak to our guides before that

Empower Camps

83

Pali Phata (look for railings on left, turn left just before the start of railings. Note that this road slopes downwards. If you reach Vile Village / Phata, you have missed the left turn)

89

Then continue on this road on the road. Turn left just before the bridge. Unfinished civil construction is your Rafting start point)