In this book, the author goes where no conventional guidebooks have gone before. To sapphire lakes in emerald settings like the Kakuli and Kalote lakes, which lie uncelebrated, right in Mumbai’s backyard. Or the unknown fort of Kohoj and the unsung Mhaismal hill station. Places where you can get away from commercialized tourist centers and noisy crowds.
Fact files are included with each article giving you the best time to visit, getting there, time taken, where to stay and where to eat. The book is designed by Subhash Avchat an illustrator who has done an enormous work in Marathi books and is a well-known painter and novelist. The book includes a good number of photographs and sketches.
The book can be used as a handbook for tourists and will also appeal to historians, archaeologists and academicians. And of course, it is targeted at the travel enthusiasts who want to explore the hidden treasures of Maharashtra.
Milind Gunaji is an actor in Marathi and Hindi theater, TV and film and also writer. Most known for his roles in films like Devdas (2002), Godmother (1999), Virasat (1997), Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (1998) and Dev (2004), both by Govind Nihalani.
He has been the host of travel show, Bhatkanti on Zee Marathi channel about places inMaharashtra and Goa, for several years. An avid travel writer himself, in 1998 he released his first travelogue, Majhi Mulukhgiri, a compilation of his weekly columns for the Marathi weeklyLokprabha over period of a year and a half about tourist spots in Maharashtra, the book has since gone into several reprints and he has subsequently published over five travelogues. Milind has been Brand Ambassador for forest and Wildlife of Government of Maharashtra