Finally after 2 yrs, I took a vacation from work. Though I was not in mood to go on vacation, but family want me to go with them. I was also wanting to take a break as it was long and tiring time. Anyways, we boarded in train to Shirdi on 10th Sep 2010. it was 19 hr long journey in train and than about 1 hr drive to Shirdi from railway station. We start journey about 2 PM from my home and reach the destination at about 12 noon the next day.
It was beautiful screnery outside when we cross Madhya pradesh and when we are in Maharashtra. all over it is green land and hills. I really love the scene from my window of moving train. Not much to mention about the travel, but it was relaxing and little different as I was not using my computer from last few hours when I was still wake up.
Once we reach shirdi, we take a hotel room. Get fresh and went straight to Sai Baba temple, from outside I thought we were going to be among the few devotees, as queue for visit looks empty. But as soon as we enter the temple, my thoughts proves to be wrong, we were standing in a queue of atleast 500 people ahead of us. It took us about an hour standing and waiting for turn to enter main temple. But when we enter main temple its beauty again impressed me. The walls were covered with thin Gold sheets all over, with white marble Sculpture of Sai baba in between. After the devotion, we came to temple premises, it was even bigger then main temple, it can easily accomodate more than few thousands of people at once. We return to our room at about 7 PM and was very tired as we walk alot and remain in standing position for last few hours.
The Next day we start our travel to visit Nasik and near by temples, it was again a full day trip as Nasik is about 120-125 KM far from Shirdi. It was another fun day while traveling on our rented car to nasik. All Green land, hills are so beautiful to watch. But again when we reach Tryambakeshwar Temple, it was so croweded and yet again we are standing at the end of 500+ devotee queue, yet again it took about 1 hr 30 minutes to reach temple. But today we are standing under shades in rather a warm day. I was little concern as Aaryan was getting thirsty and there is no way we can get water for him, but luckily it won’t be problem at last, as we get out in good time.
On our way back to Shirdi, we take lunch at really a good resturant, they develop it like a small village and food was tasty of all we eat in trip. At night we revisit the Sai Baba Temple, this time we visit at night and got about only 100 other devotee in queue. Next day our return train was at 9 AM and railway station was about 1 hr away and since we are new to place we have to go little early to find our way and transportation. So we wake up at 5 in morning. Than about 21 hr travel on train we reach Delhi back, tried and with closed eye. I have to attend my office as it was already 2 off for me, and hence I go office yawning.
It was fun taking break from work. I love to take more such break in near future and rather more frequently. I cannot forget this trip, it was fun, little discomfort due to change in environment. Though I enjoy it.