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Venna Lake, Mahabaleshwar

7 September 2007 18 Comments

While coming back from Panchgani, we stopped at Venna Lake for some boating. It has changed its face since we visited it last time three years back.

The Venna Lake is a great attraction to everybody with its dazzling sight, boating, fishing, newly came up dam and stalls for games and eatables. It is within walking distance from Town Mahabaleshwar.

It also supplies drinking water to the town. Venna Lake has an area of 28 Acres and average depth of the 10 ft.

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  • Priyank said:

    I hate you for making me miss all this… :)

    # 8 September 2007 at 3:51 AM
  • Fleiger said:

    Nice photos… I would have suggested Panshet if you were in Pune. Nice spot, nice boating…

    # 8 September 2007 at 9:13 PM
  • Sigma said:

    I am surprised that they have allowed boating on the lake, if it supplies drinking water to the town. Because in my experience, if boating is allowed, keeping the lake clean is a very difficult thing to do.

    # 9 September 2007 at 4:42 PM
  • Pijush said:

    First one is taken in still camera, rest are in a cloudy day :-)

    # 10 September 2007 at 8:39 PM
  • Cuckoo said:

    Priyank,
    Oh Oh.. Don’t be so sad. You still have a whole life to go there. :P

    Fleiger,
    Thank you very much. I have never been to Pune, so you can still suggest me. :P

    # 13 September 2007 at 5:08 AM
  • Cuckoo said:

    Sigma,
    Yes, it is difficult to keep the lake clean. I have captured those shots as well but not displayed here since I wanted to show the beauty first.

    The water is used for drinking purpose mainly because it is sweet water.
    There was a huge pumping house, attached to it were thick wide pipes to carry the water out of the lake. They definitely would be processing/cleaning the water before supplying it. I hope so. :( You made me think now.

    # 13 September 2007 at 5:10 AM
  • Cuckoo said:

    Pijush,
    Oh Pijush, you are so correct !!

    And you are the one who looks at the other side of photos (I mean technicalities). :-)

    # 13 September 2007 at 5:11 AM
  • Fleiger said:

    Oh great… You have been to every other place in Maharashtra, and hasn’t been to the best of them? Well, get to Pune then.

    # 14 September 2007 at 5:26 AM
  • Cuckoo said:

    Fleiger,
    Not interested in seeing cities. Have seen plenty of them. Tell me some small town / village or even a remote unknown place will do.

    BTW, I heard from someone who is now in Pune that it is just not a match to Mumbai. :)

    # 14 September 2007 at 5:47 AM
  • Fleiger said:

    Last time I looked, Mumbai didn’t have majestic Shanivarwada sitting in the middle, with Parvati (among many other hills) standing by. No Balgandharva Rangmandir, no Sinhgad , Khadkwasala and Panshet. And definitely no NDA or CME (even NDA road is beautiful). And that’s just popular sites.

    For mumbaikars natural beauty is something you go to Khandala to see, and history is something you learn in school and forget.

    So believe me when I say that you are missing a lot by dismissing Pune as “yet another city”.

    # 15 September 2007 at 5:28 PM
  • Fleiger said:

    Forgot to mention religious places like Dehu and Alandi, and myriad forts within an easy drive…

    # 15 September 2007 at 5:29 PM
  • Celestine said:

    enjoyed reading tt. :)

    # 16 September 2007 at 11:40 AM
  • GMG said:

    It seems you had a great time there. I just wonder whether they let motorboats there and then supply water for drinking purposes; hope not…
    Have a great weekend!

    # 22 September 2007 at 9:17 PM
  • niki yokota said:

    oh i want to take that boat trip!!
    look like u had loads of fun :)

    # 6 October 2007 at 12:40 PM
  • Parasailing in Panchgani said:

    [...] to three days trip to Mahabaleshwar and Panchgani. You can read in details about that visit here, here and here. It was my second visit to these small hill stations amidst the heights of the Sahyadris [...]

    # 7 February 2008 at 2:59 PM
  • Noorain shaih said:

    hi ,
    i m requested to u i need a venna lake contact no. if its possible plz send me the contact no. of venna lake.

    thanking u,

    # 14 August 2009 at 11:37 PM
  • Cuckoo (author) said:

    Noorain,
    I am sorry, I cannot help you in this matter. I don’t think there is any contact no. for Venna lake.

    When you go to Mahabaleshwar, you can ask anybody for it. It is quite famous lake and a tourist spot.

    # 14 August 2009 at 11:42 PM
  • Prasad Keni said:

    http://wikimapia.org/#lat=17.9280684&lon=73.6617422&z=15&l=0&m=h

    use this link

    # 1 October 2009 at 3:48 PM

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