{"id":288343,"date":"2010-02-07T01:21:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T06:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.team-bhp.com\/forum\/travelogues\/75039-hiding-tiger-snorting-bison-dajipur-maharashtra.html"},"modified":"2010-02-07T01:21:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T06:21:30","slug":"hiding-tiger-snorting-bison-dajipur-maharashtra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/288343","title":{"rendered":"Hiding Tiger, Snorting Bison: Dajipur, Maharashtra"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It all began with a few mysterious pictures on team-bhp. A picture of a lake, some hills, and Cougar(Roy&#8217;s) gypsy standing over a magnificent panoramic vista&#8230;<br \/>\nCould this really be Maharashtra?<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward 3 days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;You are doing what for New Years?&quot; said the voice on the other end of the line.<\/p>\n<p>In retrospect, the idea of driving 8 hours to reach a place with scarce accommodation, slightly alleviated by the vague promise of &quot;full hain, but aa jao adjust kar lenge&quot; (We are full but come over we will &#8216;adjust&#8217; you), sounded a bit daft.<\/p>\n<p>But the person behind the voice (my usual navigator) was many thousand&#8217;s of miles away in the land of the brave and the free (and 26 inches of snow) visiting her sisters, and here I was free to do daft things in a newly discovered bachelorhood (well until she came back&#8230;) and live the life of the wild and carefree.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But where is this Dajipur?&quot; she asks. Umm&#8230;you go to Kolhapur from Mumbai, go right, drive some 100km and you are there. 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