We had visited Mauli Krishi Paryatan Kendra on 29th June 2019 and stayed overnight . This Kendra is on off road away from the main road so there is no traffic noise. Ample parking space is available in front of the gate. Lot of flowering plants are planted that is why lot of birds like sun birds, red vented bulbul, Baya weaver, stone chat, Jungle babbler, drongo, butterflies can be seen. You can get lot of breeze in the afternoon also there are number of trees around. Overall quite and beautiful place.
Dinning area: It is open from three sides one can see birds and peacocks while having food, offers a very small less than half feet kaddappa and plastic stools to sit for food. Self service is available if more crowd and also you have to lift your plates and cups after food. Seating can be improvised by providinchairs.
Food is home made rural style two vegetables one dal( poor taste) with home made clarified butter(Ghee) Indrayani rice(hot), Jowar Bhakari, pickle, thecha, 2 chutneys, papad which are usually soggy as they fry 3-4 hrs before food time. Dinner is served 8.30 p.m. and time is strictly followed whether you are hungry or not the owners are not bothered about the guest. Again the pappad were soggy as they were fried at 6.00 pm and we had food at 9.00 p.m. and it was blamed on weather. In dinner you will get chapati .Tea is served in ceramic cups if less people and is of good quality otherwise in smallest steel glasses and bad quality tea if more people. Breakfast timing is not followed there is no choice in breakfast only poha with ground nut curry along with tiniest lemon pieces. Poha taste was very poor the onion was not cooked properly also if you are not eating poha you may get upma(that to telling in advance previous day) the onion and tomatoes were not cooked at all in upma and not properly mixed. Bananas were also there for breakfast. As the owner is from Varkari sampradya no non veg food is served. Evening tea is served with kanda bhajiya( which was served by the owner and was not included in the package) We had not demanded it was forcefully served at the wrong time( it was fried earlier and later on only two bhajiyas were freshly made and served hot rest was cold below in the plate)and the bhajiyas were salty. Why this kind of cheating they think people will not be able to make out.
No packaged drinking water(mineral) is provided though it is mention in their website they will provide the packaged drinking water. RO filter water is provided. But to be on safer carry your own water.
Rooms: Room is sufficient for two people with one light in the entire room. One wall mounted table fan attached away from the bed. When voltage is low there is dim light and fan speed is less. If you will insist on to put on inverter the owner will on the inverter otherwise no. No light is available on wash basin mirror. Wash basin is outside the bathroom. Hot water is available. but if you want in the middle of the day the owner will open the valve, Iron Bed with hard( local mattress) No chair in the room is provided. Old square TV(Benton) with bad quality picture tube with Tata sky connection few channels available. Door latch is half broken when told to owner the reply was I do not stay here so I do not know.
Next day they provided the bathing soap that to duplicate and manufacturing date 2.09.16. so you may get expired product.
Be careful . Please carry your own towels and soap.
Next day the owner's wife used the room for her morning routine. How disgusting when you are charging so much and you are giving used rooms to the guest.
There are three such rooms 1600/-( Western commode) are available along with dormitory and two rooms 1200/-( Indian Style toilet). Very basic room with basic amenities.
The main star attraction of the place are peafowls who are very sensitive even the slightest movement they run away. There are 3-4 spots where you can watch the peafowls beside Iron tower, behind rooms, from tower and in the fields. The owner put Jowar seeds to peafowls., so you can watch closely but again you have to be very patient and careful. Around 12-15 peafowls can be seen at a time. During the rainy season you get to see mating dance too. The Iron tower is all rusty and you have to be careful while you climb especially kids and senior citizens.
The owner can put hide to watch the peafowls so that the photographers or the people can watch it comfortably and also peafowls can live peacefully. There is no tension of human presence.
There is one field water source(Shet tale) and well but owner will tell you they get water tankers for peafowls. Why such lies? They assume people are fools can be easily manipulated. We feel they are farmers but they are very much business minded people. Share anything and get money. So do not fall for it.
Rain dance facility is also available. But we didn't use it.
You can get fresh and good quality pomegranate if you tell the owner in advanced.
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