Exploring temples of Maharashtra 🚩

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 Hello everyone 

My name is vaishnavi and I'm from Goa . I am on a trip with my mummy and her friends where we'll be visiting the temples of Maharasthra 

we are going to 13 temples in this 4 day trip, out of 13 - 8 temples are the Ashtavinaya(अष्टविनायक),Balumama temple,Ambabai temple,Shirdi and Shani shignapur,I will try to add most of the temples.It will be my pleasure to give little bit information about which temple I visit so stay tune to know more about the place. 

*Disclaimer* 

All the pictures seen in the future blogs are all captured by me (Vaishnavi mesta) ,Also there will be no pictures of the dieties but there will be pictures of the temple and surrounding. Reason : clicking pictures of the dieties inside the temple is not allowed and i do not own the pictures from google .

Thank you for reading my blog 🤗



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