Fireflies Festival - Bhandardara
Fireflies festival takes place every year between 15 May and 15 June. This year we planned to experience it. I explored a couple of options and booked to visit Bhandardara for 18-19 May '24 with "Hire A Camp". We started around 11am from Pune. The route wasn't very good, but was average. Some single roads through the villages , some ghats, a bit of stopping for break and we reached the camp site around 4:30pm. The campsite was called "backpack camping". There was ample parking space available at the camp site. The host Shubham was available at the site to help with the check in. We chose our tents , kept the backpack and went for a stroll at the lake side. It was Rocky as expected but very clean lake side. We spent some time there, clicked some pictures, then returned back to our tents. Bhel and tea were ready for evening snacks. We had the snacks, then relaxed for some time in and around the tents. Families and groups were still che