Pune City Guide
Day plans and itineraries for visiting Pune — one day in Pune and what to see near heritage sites.
Dagdusheth Ganpati Pune is Maharashtra’s most visited Ganesh temple — a 7.5-foot golden idol in a gleaming marble temple at the heart of the old city’s Budhwar Peth, drawing over 7 lakh devotees during Ganesh Chaturthi and thousands of visitors on ordinary days throughout the year. The temple is less than 500 metres from Shaniwar … Read more
Shaniwar Wada photography has a specific challenge that most visitors don’t anticipate: the most photogenic elements of the complex — the five gates, the scale of the fortification walls, the detail of the iron spikes on the Delhi Darwaza — are all in the outer perimeter, and they require the right light, the right position, … Read more
Kelkar Museum Pune is one of those places that almost everyone who visits leaves saying the same thing: why does no one talk about this? The Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum on Bajirao Road holds over 20,000 objects collected by one man across six decades of travel across India. A suit of armour made from crocodile … Read more
There is a moment about two-thirds of the way up the 103 steps of Parvati Hill Pune when the city spreads out below you and you realise that what you are climbing is not just a hill with temples at the top. You are climbing the most personally significant piece of geography in Pune’s 18th-century … Read more
Aga Khan Palace Pune is one of those rare heritage sites where the architecture, the history, and the landscape are each individually significant — and together create an experience unlike anything else in Maharashtra. Built in 1892 as an act of charity during a famine, it became the site of Gandhi’s imprisonment during the Quit … Read more
Sinhagad Fort is the most visited heritage trek destination in Maharashtra — 35 kilometres from Pune, 1,312 metres above sea level, with a history stretching back 1,800 years and a food culture at the summit that has its own dedicated following. This hub guide brings together everything on our site about sinhagad fort into one … Read more
Saras Baug Pune occupies a particular place in the daily life of the city that most tourist guides miss entirely. It is not primarily a tourist destination — it is, first and foremost, a place where Punekars come. Morning walkers who have been circling the same paths for twenty years. Families who arrive on Sunday … Read more