Ex-Mumbai Ashtavinayak with Shirdi,
Trimbakeshwar and Shani Shinganapur Ashtavinayak
means "eight Ganeshas". The term Ashtavinayak also refers to a pilgrimage
to the eight temples in Maharashtra that house eight idols of Ganesh viz. Ballaleshwar
at Pali, Chintamani at Theur, Girijatmaj at Lenyadri
Mahaganpati at
Ranjangaon, Moreshwar at Morgaon, Siddhivinayak, at Siddhtek, Varad Vinayak at
Mahad, Vighneshwar at Ozhar. According
to ancient religious scripts no life is complete without a pilgrimage to Astavinayak
and first you have to visit Moreshwar of Moregaon. Then visit Siddhatek,Pali,
Mahad, Theur, Lenyandri, Ozar, Ranjangaon and then again Moregaon will end you
Ashtavinayak Yatra. However devotees now do not necessarily all follow this route
and so we have given a more popular route below:
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Varad
Vinayak Mahad | Ballareshwar,
Pali | Chintamani,
Theur | Mayureshwar,
Morgaon | | | | |
Siddhivinayak,
Siddhtek | Shrivighnahar,
Ozhar | Girijatmaj,
Lenyadri | Mahaganapati,
Ranjangaon | 1
night - 2 days Itinerary (Ex-Mumbai) | 2 nights
- 3 days Itinerary (Ex-Mumbai) | 2 nights
- 3 days (ex-Pune | Ashtavinayak with Shirdi and Bhimashankar
Day
1 : Take a straight road from Mumbai to Trimbak and then eventually settle
at Nashik or Shirdi for the night. Mumbai to Trimbak is about 3 hours - 150
kms. Route
you can take is Nashik Road and take a diversion just before Nashik.
From Trimbak
you can go to Nashik and there on to Shirdi (90 kms from Nashik). Depending
on the time you have you can either Stay at Nashik for the night or at Shirdi.
Day
2: Next day Morning you can take darshan
at Shirdi and then proceed for Shani Shinganapur (45 kms). By afternoon proceed
towards Pune. There are two ashtavinayak temples
on the pune road. Ozhar and Lenyadri which you can cover enroute Bhimashankar
another Jyotirlinga temple will be around Lenyadri temple and so depending on
time you have you can cover that. Pune from
Shirdi is about 200 kms. Overnight at
Pune Day
3: Next day from Pune Start for 4
ashtavinayak temples. Theur, Ranjangaon, Siddhtek, Morgaon. This is a circle of
about 250 kms and will take full day. Overnight
at Pune
Day 4 : Next day from Pune Start for last 2 ashtavinayak
temples of Pali and Mahad (Pune - Mumbai highway) and from there you take
Expressway till Panvel and from there straight to Mumbai.
Mahad - Mumbai - 80 kms A lot of devotees of the
ashtavinayak rule revisit the first temple that they visit at the end. So in this
case you can go from Mahad to Lenyadri via Karjat/Murbad/Malshej and then from
there look to come back to Mumbai via Igatpuri or via Kajat.
Accommodation Options
(NASHIK)
Accommodation Options (Shirdi) Transport
: Transport Ex-Mumbai can be arranged with drivers who know the route
pretty well. Please
let us know arrival date and no. of persons and type of vehicle and accommodation
required and we will email firm cost estimate with availability information. email:
ashtavinayak@nivalink.com
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