Kolhapur, Maharashtra

I and my friends visited the Kolhapur Mahalakshmi Temple at Kolhapur during last year rainy season. Kolhapur was settled by Kolhasur, a demon who was later killed by Mahalakshmi to relieve the local populace, As per Hindu Mythology. Honouring the demon's dying wish, the city was named after him. As a big plan we booked our tickets for to and fro in a train and bus, half of the journey in bus to solapur and next in the train to kolhapur, as our bus late by one hour, we waited, and then started to our destiny. We reached solapur and get down the bus and station is near to the Railway station, later train was on time and in the morning time we got down by train and as per our plan we called the secretary of the temple, with his recommendation we got an economy room to stay. Later we entered into the temple it was historical temple with a glorious sculptures that with a story based.  And we paid for the pooja and as per tradition of temple we wore dhoti for that pooja and a condition to enter sanctum sanctorum (garbha gudi).

                After that we went for shopping, we bought some Goddess photos, and then for a lunch, nearby some more attractions also there, visited Rankala lake and gone for boating which was good experience for me after a long time. Then we returned to room, and again we woke up early in the morning and visited temple and some pooja will be done in morning and we started our fro journey. And that was a wonderful experience which I got good and helpful information from this site.