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Lonavala pronunciation or Lonavale is a town and a hill station Municipal Council in Pune district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.  It is about 64 km away from the city of Pune, 96 km away from the city Mumbai. It is famous throughout India for the hard candy sweet known as chikki and is also a major stop on the rail line connecting Mumbai and Pune. For Mumbai suburbs local trains are available from Karjat It is also an important town on the Mumbai-Pune road link. Lonavla comes to life during the monsoon season as the countryside turns lush green with waterfalls and ponds. [more...]

Transport

By road: Both the Mumbai-Pune Expressway as well as the Mumbai-Pune highway passes through Lonavla and is well-connected to several other towns of Khopoli, Karjat, Talegaon Dabhade, etc.

By train: Lonavla is well-connected by train. Local trains run from Pune at 2 hour intervals. It takes 2.5 hours by train from Mumbai and 1.5 hour from Pune. All trains, whether travelling from Mumbai to Pune or Pune to Mumbai, will stop at Lonavla. The trains coming from Mumbai will stop at Karjat since an extra set of locomotives need to be added to each train before it starts its journey up the western Ghats to reach Lonavala.

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