₹6,500 a day
Fuel and toll/parking extra. Monday to Saturday. Sunday ₹7,000 a day.
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Your Mumbai to Bhimashankar taxi in the top-model Innova Hycross, with a chauffeur who waits while you take darshan. The Sahyadri hill road up through Taleghar, the sixth Jyotirlinga, and the wildlife sanctuary around it. One daily rate, no kilometre meter.
Monday to Saturday. Sunday ₹7,000 a day. A Bhimashankar darshan trip is one long day, about 440 km garage to garage. Car, chauffeur and driver allowance included.
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Our flagship Innova Hycross ZX Top, filmed on the actual car. The panoramic sunroof opening, the powered recliner captain seats with the electric leg rest out, and the cabin on the move.
The film explains the daily bands, why more days means a lower daily rate, how a one-way drop is priced and what is charged at actuals. The rates on this page follow it.
Mumbai to Bhimashankar car rental in the Hycross ZX Top: a Mumbai to Bhimashankar cab with a chauffeur, priced by the day. Take the Mumbai to Bhimashankar taxi for a single darshan day, or add Malshej Ghat over a weekend. Need a cab from Mumbai to Bhimashankar in a Mumbai to Bhimashankar Innova, the top-model Hycross? For Mumbai to Bhimashankar cab booking, send your date on WhatsApp.
Guaranteed model, not a category. You are booking our flagship Innova Hycross ZX Top. Once your booking is confirmed we send you photographs of that exact car, its registration number, and your chauffeur's name and number. Every cab aggregator in this market writes "or similar" against every car, because none of them knows which car will arrive at your door. See the car.
| Bhimashankar plan | Innova Hycross ZX Top | Innova Crysta |
|---|---|---|
| Bhimashankar darshan day trip (1 day) | ₹6,500Sunday ₹7,000 | ₹6,000Sunday ₹6,500 |
| With Malshej Ghat or Shivneri Fort (2 days) | ₹6,000 / daySunday ₹6,500 / day | ₹5,500 / daySunday ₹6,000 / day |
| Bhimashankar with Ashtavinayak temples (3 days) | ₹5,500 / daySunday ₹6,000 / day | ₹5,000 / daySunday ₹5,500 / day |
Our chauffeurs know this circuit. They know the order the temples are taken in, where the car can wait, how long darshan usually runs at each one, and where to stop for food and a toilet break. You are not directing the driver from the back seat.
The Innova Crysta is the same trip at ₹500 a day less, driver plus 6 with two captain seats in the middle row; driver plus 7 is subject to availability, when a bench extension is fitted between the captain seats. The Innova Hycross ZX Top is the top model: powered recliner captain seats, a panoramic sunroof and a near-silent hybrid cabin. Rates follow the kilometres covered in a day, so adding a day usually lowers the daily rate. Work out your exact rate.
Nothing is collected from you on the road. The daily rate covers the chauffeur and his allowance. You buy the fuel, full tank out and full tank back, and you pay toll and parking exactly as incurred, against the FASTag statement and the cash receipts. No night charge, no minimum kilometres, no extra kilometre rate, and nothing added for crossing a state line. The car is serviced on schedule at the authorised Toyota workshop and we keep every invoice. Every rule of a booking, written down.
Bhimashankar is about 220 km from Andheri, five to six hours by the Expressway, Talegaon, Chakan and Manchar, then the hill road through Ghodegaon and Taleghar. A day trip runs about 440 km garage to garage. On the flat rate none of it is billed by the kilometre: you pay the day rate and fill the fuel your trip uses. A day runs until 12 midnight. If the car reaches our garage after 11 PM on the last day, one extra day's driver allowance is payable; after 12 midnight, the next day's rate applies. A ₹2,000 deposit confirms your date.
The drive begins in the dark and ends after a long walk down and back up two hundred and thirty steps. A quiet cabin on the way out and a reclining seat on the way home are worth more on this route than on any other.
Near-silent hybrid cabin. The Hycross ZX Top is a petrol strong hybrid. It pulls away on electric power in silence, and the cabin stays calm, with far less engine noise and vibration than a diesel.
The queue is shortest before the crowd arrives. The Hycross and your chauffeur reach your door while it is still dark, tank full.
Park, walk down the steps, take darshan at your own pace. There is no kilometre meter running while you are inside.
Refill at the end and pay the day rate plus toll and parking. That is the whole bill.
The flat rate above is for the Hycross ZX Top. For two or three people on a tighter budget, or a large group, we also run the Innova Crysta, sedans, Ertiga and Carens, Tempo Travellers, the Force Urbania and buses for Mumbai to Bhimashankar, quoted for your trip.
The sixth of the twelve Jyotirlingas, in a Nagara-style stone temple at the head of the valley. Two hundred and thirty steps down from the road.
A ten-minute walk behind the temple, quiet and shaded. Most visitors miss it.
The stream said to be the source of the Bhima, a short forest walk from the main shrine.
The cobra-hood rock at the edge of the plateau. On a clear morning you see the Konkan below the ghat.
Dense forest on the way up, home to the Malabar giant squirrel. Windows down on the last few kilometres.
About two hours north, worth adding as a second day in the monsoon for the waterfalls on the road.
Darshan queues build from eight. A four o'clock departure from Andheri gets you to the steps before the rush.
You walk down a flight of steps to reach it, and back up afterwards. A new stairway was built during the 2026 works, so any step count you read online predates it. Take it slowly and allow for the climb back.
From Manchar the road turns off through Ghodegaon, Dimbhe and Taleghar, and the final 25 to 30 km is a single lane hill road through the wildlife sanctuary. It breaks up every monsoon. Our chauffeurs drive it; most app drivers will not.
Shravan Mondays and Mahashivratri bring very large crowds. Tell us if you want to go anyway and we will leave earlier.
There are small stalls near the temple but nothing substantial on the road up.
October to February. The monsoon is beautiful and it is also when the Forest Department closes Kondhwal waterfall, Nagphani and Kokankada, and when the last 25 km breaks up. In 2026 a freshly resurfaced stretch failed in the first rains.
Starting from Navi Mumbai, Panvel or Thane? We take the Expressway and leave it at Talegaon, so the start of the drive is on your side of the city. Tell us your pickup point and we will time the departure around it.
Search for Bhimashankar and you will find routes through Karjat, Khopoli and Khandas. Those are trek routes. Khandas is the base village for the Ganesh Ghat and Shidi Ghat climbs, which take about four hours on foot, and the Forest Department names them as trails, not roads. A car goes the pilgrim way: Expressway to Talegaon, then Chakan, Rajgurunagar and Manchar, then left off the highway through Ghodegaon, Dimbhe and Taleghar. Taking the Talegaon exit also means you skip Pune city entirely.
Single lane hill road through the wildlife sanctuary. The Taleghar to Nigadale stretch was resurfaced for about Rs 3.5 crore and broke up in the first rains of the 2026 monsoon, with water filled potholes reported by the local press. The highway part is fine. This part is not.
Four hours is what the travel pages say. It is what the map says with an empty Mumbai and a perfect hill road. We plan five to six each way, with a halt, and we would rather be early than apologising.
The Expressway missing link opened in May 2026 and takes 25 to 30 minutes off the Khandala ghat section at no extra toll. It is the one part of this drive that got faster.
It has happened before, and heavy rain in the Bhimashankar and Junnar belt has brought down slides and shut stretches. In the monsoon we check before we commit to the date.
The state’s own encyclopaedia records that entry to the sanctuary is barred after 7 PM. Whether or not it is enforced on the day, a single lane hill road through a forest at night is not where we want your family.
That is what it takes to be in the first queue. It also means the hill road in daylight on the way up and on the way down, which is the real reason we push for it.
The temple closed to darshan on 9 January 2026 and reopened on 15 June, for about Rs 288 crore of redevelopment ahead of the 2027 Kumbh, including a rebuilt sabha mandap and a new stairway. On reopening, online pre registration was compulsory with a cap of a thousand people a day. Three days later that was relaxed to free direct darshan from 7 to 11 AM plus a free tatkal registration, and VIP, recommendation and protocol darshan were scrapped altogether. For Shravan the temple ran 5 AM to 9:30 PM with a single queue. Four different arrangements in eight months. We check what is in force before every trip, and so should you.
Several sites look official, carry a darshan pass form and take money. None of them identifies a publisher we can verify, and none is the trust. We will not link one and we will not sell you a pass.
For Shravan Mondays 2026 the trust ran four numbered outer parking zones with around 38 state transport buses carrying devotees in, planning for 60,000 to 70,000 people a day. Your chauffeur waits at the outer zone. That is the arrangement, not a failing on his part.
A new stairway was built in the 2026 works. The numbers on travel sites all predate it. You walk down to the temple and back up, and that is all we will claim.
Shravan 2026 began on 13 August. Bhimashankar was closed for Mahashivratri 2026 because of the works. Outside those, a weekday is a completely different temple.
The trust planned for 30 minutes to an hour in normal crowds during Shravan. On an ordinary weekday morning it is quicker. On a Shravan Monday it is not.
If the arrangement has changed since you booked, we tell you before you leave, not when you arrive. That is the whole reason to use a chauffeur who drives this road rather than an app driver who has never seen it.
Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary was notified in 1985 and covers about 131 sq km across Pune, Raigad and Thane districts. It was protected specifically for the Shekru, the Indian giant squirrel, which is Maharashtra’s state animal and whose Western Ghats subspecies is at home here. It gets around 6,000 mm of rain a year, which is why the road suffers and why the forest looks the way it does.
The Shekru lives in the canopy and you are far more likely to hear one than see one. Early morning, before the crowd, is the only realistic chance.
The Forest Department has closed Kondhwal waterfall, about 2 km from the temple, along with Nagphani Point and Kokankada, in 2024 and again by order of 6 July 2026, for safety. Darshan is treated separately from waterfall tourism, so the temple stays open while the falls do not.
Both are walks from the temple, not drives. Worth it on a clear day outside the monsoon, and closed or dangerous in it.
We could not find any Forest Department checkpost or published fee for a car on the public road to the temple. If anything is collected on the day it goes on your bill at actuals with the receipt.
The central government notified an eco sensitive zone around the sanctuary covering 42 villages. It restricts industry and construction rather than ordinary traffic, but it is why the area stays as it is.
There are small stalls near the temple and very little on the road up. On a 5 AM departure with children, pack before you go.
Checked on 4 October 2026. The rates, road conditions, toll positions and timings on this page were reviewed on that date by the Rane family, who drive this route themselves. If anything has changed since, tell us on WhatsApp and we will correct it.
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