点评:We visited in the first week of June. We hired a taxi to travel from Pune to Matheran as we had heard that the drive up the hill in it's final leg gets challenging.
As soon as we reached Neral and started going up we were stopped by some random people, they handed us a receipt/pavati and demanded 600 rs. This was in all likelihood illegal so felt like being robbed. Since I was with family, I had to pay.
Even before we reached Dasturi point, we were hounded by groups of people who started telling us to deboard and take their horse/hand pulled cart. We did not and figured out what to do. There was a e rickshaw service. These people kept lying about the expected waiting time all this while as we were standing in the sweltering heat.
Finally we got the battery rickshaw after waiting for an hour or so expecting things to get better. E Richshaw service is good. They dropped us at their stand. Our hotel was another 1.1 km walk from there.
Since we did not want to hire a horse or a hand rickshaw we started walking towards our hotel but the hounding by all the horse people and hand rickshaw folks did not stop.
While walking we noticed that the entire place reeked of horse dung and had the feeling of an abandoned village. There were flies everywhere in all the restraunts.
Our hotel, though, was good but outside it was just not the place we had in mind.
People, take your money and business elsewhere. The local community is not interested in upkeep of this potentially heavenly place. They are only interested in milking the toursit while offering precious little.
A big thumbs down from my side.
翻译:我们六月初去的。因为听说马特兰最后一段上山的路比较难走,所以我们从浦那包了辆出租车。
刚到内拉尔,开始上山,就被几个陌生人拦住了。他们递给我们一张收据/小票,要价600卢比。这很可能是非法的,感觉像是被抢劫了。因为和家人一起,我只好付钱。
还没到达斯图里,就被一群人围住,他们劝我们下车坐他们的马车/手推车。我们没听,想办法解决。那里有电动三轮车。我们顶着烈日站着,这些人一直在撒谎说要等多久。
等了一个小时左右,我们终于等到了电动三轮车,心想情况应该会好转。电动三轮车服务不错,他们把我们送到站点。我们的酒店离那里还有1.1公里。
由于我们不想租马或人力车,便开始步行前往酒店,但那些骑马人和人力车夫的纠缠却没完没了。
步行途中,我们注意到整个地方弥漫着马粪的臭味,感觉像个废弃的村庄。所有餐馆里都苍蝇成群。
我们的酒店还不错,但外面的环境却和我们想象中的完全不一样。
各位,请把钱花在别的地方吧。当地居民对维护这个原本可能宛如天堂的地方毫无兴趣。他们只想着榨取游客的钱财,却几乎不提供任何服务。
我强烈反对。