Lavasa
June 26, 2015
In the afternoon, our hosts took us to Lavasa, a planned community outside of Pune. It is still being built. It will be interesting to see what it becomes in the future. There are plenty of nice houses but there isn’t anywhere to work close by. I wondered if people were using the area for holidays and long weekends.
The drive took over and hour through the countryside and up windy roads over mountains and then back down again. Along the way the way, there was plenty to look at including rice paddles, sugar cane fields, a dam holding back red water turned red from the clay. Unfortunately, it was a rain day and my pictures are very overcast.
It was a nice change and a huge contrast between the chaos of the city and the calm of the countryside. We had lunch in a restaurant overlooking Lavasa with spectacular views.
Ws the weather bearable this time of year in India? And is it polluted as in China sometimes?
Hi Judy! When this trip was scheduled, my boss gave me the option of skipping it and going to the one in the fall (October). I chose this trip.
The past month I was worried to death that I would be stuck in the Spring Heat Waves that took the temperatures into the 120’s. A ew weeks before my trip, the monsoons came in and cooled everything down. The temps have been in the high 80’s
The pollution is another story and it is sad to see. I just changed cities from Pune to Hyderabad, it may be dfferenet in Hyderabad.