Pune City Guide
Pune City Guide — Everything Worth Knowing, In One Place
theOpenHandbook is a free, research-driven guide to Pune. We cover the heritage sites in the old city, the bus routes out of Swargate, the best misal pav in Narayan Peth, and the Sinhagad Fort trek — everything a visitor or resident needs, written with the detail that most travel sites skip.
There is a moment in any first visit to Dagdushet Ganpati when the temple stops being a landmark on your itinerary and becomes something else entirely. It happens when the aarti begins — the brass instruments, the conch shell, the rhythm of a hundred voices — and the sheer scale of devotion in that small … Read more
Shaniwar Wada is the most important building Pune has ever produced. Not the most beautiful — parts of it are rubble now, and have been for nearly two centuries. But no other structure in Maharashtra carries the same weight of history, the same concentration of stories, or the same ability to stop a first-time visitor … Read more
Once a year, Pune’s historic heart takes on a completely different rhythm. During Ganeshotsav, the area around Shrimant Dagdusheth Halwai Ganpati in Budhwar Peth becomes a major centre of devotion, culture and public celebration. Streets around the temple experience heavy pedestrian movement, elaborate decorations, religious ceremonies and large crowds of devotees. Dagdusheth Ganpati Ganeshotsav is … Read more