Introduction
Pelhar Lake is like 11 km From vasai station. Lake water is used in supplying water to the city, this is one of the main reason pehlar lake is kept clean and it gets it's water from Tungareshwar river.
Journey
It was 12th December 2017, Tuesday. Me, laxman and Yash decided to give a visit to Pehlar lake in Vasai. I left my house at 6:50 Am reaching Azad Nagar straight up boarding metro to andheri station which costed me 10 Rs while yash boarded train from Borivali , and i boarded train to vasai from Andheri station which costed me 20 Rs Return Ticket. As decided me and yash met at Vasai station, as soon as we hopped outside station we called laxman who lives in vasai itself and like always he was heading to take a bath.If it was't about vasai, he would have never said 'Yes' to this trip as he is little lazy when it comes to waking up early in the morning, secondly he is not fond of vegetation, Hills and lake which is fair enough , and i understand. In that mean Time we went to one of the hotel in vasai east where we eat Idli and medu vada which costed us 25 Rs Per person then we went to vasai west near gurudwara to pick up laxman, by the time he reached it was 9 am. Again we went back to vasai east to board rickshaw to Vasai phata which costed us 20 Rs per person, what shocking was laxman who lives in vasai, he himself was not familiar with Pelhar lake. Once we reached Vasai phata, we boarded another rickshaw to pelhar hotel which costed us 10 Rs Per person.
Once we reached Pelhar hotel, you have to walk straight in to the colony for like 8-9 minute which leads to Tabela on the right side, couple more steps you will encounter entrance gate.The closer we got, we saw that gate was locked and there were two men sitting inside,' one of the guy was the Watchmen so the other guy who was with watchmen said ''this lake is not accessible to human anymore as they got the permission from the government to not to allow anyone to enter, except locals and tribal people, so we got worried then he asked ''where y'all came from'' to which we replied Andheri, then he said ''we will allow y'all but give little chai pani (Bribe) to watchmen'' to which we said yes once we return.
As soon as you will enter gate, you will see steps leading towards the lake, then we were greeted by this beautiful lake, it looked so clean specially during winter season, 'yash and laxman both were surprised after looking at the scenery.
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| Yash and laxman walking towards Pelhar lake |
On the right side of the entrance, there is a trail leading towards the coast of the lake with grass on both the sides of the trail.
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| Right side Trail of pelhar Lake |
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| Pelhar Lake |
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| View of baronda Devi Mountain |
Weather out here was chill, whenever Yash and Laxman would feel something weird happening in the grass, they would get little worried telling me, bro lets go back, I mean yes I understand this kind of behavior as they are new to this, exploring nature and all, I told them not now. This place is also a gem for people who are in to insect and Butterfly photography. Click the link below to check my pelhar lake species photography, it will redirect y'all to my Instagram page where I have uploaded the pics -
My Pehlar lake Butterfly and dragonFly photography (Click here)
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| Tungareshwar Mountain in the backrange of Pelhar lake |
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| Transparent and clean water |
Place was so beautiful that I felt like spending hours and hours out here, to be honest I was surprised after looking at so much water inside the lake, that too during the month of December, even the water out here was transparent, yes you can witness once you reach the coast on the right side. During summer season there is a lack of water out here and during rainy season flora and fauna looks beautiful but at that time water to some extent gets muddy.
On the left side there is a opening for dam, when lake's water start to overflow during rainy season, those dam gates are opened which in turn creates a waterfall.
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| Dam Gate |
Total cost
Travelling Cost - 100 Rs per person
Breakfast cost - 25 Rs per person
Bribe to watchmen to enter Pehlar lake - 17 Rs per person
