Matheran Yesterday | Matheran Today | Matheran Tomorrow

Jan 2003. Matheran is still the favoured holiday destination. From Mumbai you motor down to Dasturi (approx 2 hours). Matheran is still off limits to motor vehicles. Diesel locomotives have replaced the quaint steam engines on the railway (though once in a way, special journeys that revive nostalgia of the olden days is arranged). Holidays that once stretched to a month is now compressed to a few hurried days. Vibrant, raucous and bursting to capacity during season time, Matheran gets quiet and peaceful during low season. Yet, through all this, you could close your eyes and be transported to the 1900s when life was slow moving, quiet and an absolute bliss.