WW Views From Hilltop

The hills and the small temple on the hilltop beckoned me eversince I used Baner road in 1998 when I first visited Pune.




This is the picture of the temple taken atop the hill. The buildings behind the temple are on the other side of the hill and along the ExpressWay:


Although throughfare from Rolling Hills was closed after Mar 2008 since the Pashan-Baner Link Road was completed, earlier one could simply start walking (or drive) from Whispering Wind, cross Crystal Garden, cross Pashan-Baner link road, enter the Rolling Hills gate and take a left, marvelling at the breathtakingly beautiful row houses of Rolling Hills and then exit the gate near the heavenly charming Shyamalee bunglow and the adjoining waterfall and finally start ascending the hills on the left.

The complete route from the Whispering Wind to the hilltop is also seen clearly in this view. Whispering Wind is far away in the middle of the photo. No Crystal Garden is seen in front of WW since I visited the hilltop in Dec 2007.


Once on the hilltop, the view on the left side shows Baner Road. Click the image below to enlarge to clearly see the point where Pashan-Baner link road meets Baner road. Pride Purple Accord on the left and Symantec are also seen. Staples had not come up yet (as on 18-Dec-2007).


Moving a little to the right from this point gives a different perspective of Whispering Wind. Below is a 3x optical zoom view of WW. On the left is Echelon (white building) and no one had taken possesion yet at Echelon. Next seen is Spring & Blossom, Also seen are OJAS and Kumar Sahawas and finally on the extreme right is Mont Vert Fineese. Behind Whispering Wind are seen Magnolia and Mont Vert Biarritz under construction.

This green building, Basant-Bahar, at the far end in this photograph below is at the foothills and would continue to be seen from my house A-16 and most other flats of Whispering Wind as on 30-Mar-2009 and until Whispering Wind Bldg-E comes up and forever obstructs the hill view.

Below is the view of the barely visible Whispering Wind from behind Basant Bahar. Mostly white faces of Basant-Bahar are visible from this angle atop the hill:

Footsteps to descend the hill start immediately behind the trees on the nearside in the photo above. Once at the foothill, one can easily walk along the Basant-Bahar compound wall to reach the Pashan-Baner Link road, but ascending using this route is extremely diffcult since the path uphill is not visible clearly.