Small Town Shopping In Pune!!

 Mundhwa

Dave was off to work with Digambar. Fighting traffic and camels!  : )

So--- I was looking for some thing to do and an Indian friend (Preya) and her son Dahnahnjai invited me to go for a walk to Mundhwa.  


Preya and Dahnahnjai

She was going to buy an electric Chepate maker.  (she brought it back already and is making them by hand!!!!)  She kept asking if I was sure I wanted to go.  Well, of course I was sure!!  Then, she told me we would be going to the end of our street and through a hole cut in the metal fence! I had seen that hole and guys coming through it on many of the walks Dave and I had been on!  Hmmm....  okay, just a little short cut, that will surely add to the adventure!



Dead end road in front of our flat




Deb going through hole cut in metal fence to Mundhwa



View through hole in fence


















Once you hop through the hole there is a small temple for worshiping and blessings.  There is a bell hanging just as you walk up the steps that you ring out of respect to the Gods. 

Small Temple

Then, there is a muddy, dirty road with cows and water trucks being filled to bring water to the smaller villages.

Cows on dirt road to Mundhwa

Water truck just filled

Finally, once you get past the dirt road you are in Mundhwa!!  A little shanty town that most people just drive through.  There are little stalls set up like you would find at a flea market!  I took Dave back there the next week end and we now spend at least an hour a week walking there!  We even bring our laundry there once a week.  I think the locals are starting to think of us as locals or just plain loco!!  There is a nursery, a tailor shop, small hand made Ganesh Temple, large Ganesh Temple, bakery, dentist office, doctors office, tyre station (tire), fruit stand and stall, vegetable stall, (I bought cauliflower and potatoes the other nite for dinner.  Cleaned them really well and they were delicious),  chicken and egg stall (not enough guts to buy any thing there yet), local market  (kind of like a 7 eleven with no Slurpee's!), 2 hardware stalls (we like to call them our Lowes and Home Depot!!), and the local notary on the side walk! 
Check them out!!!


Dave checking out the Nursery





Tailor Shop




Dr Office




Inside Dr. Office




Dental Clinic




Dave looking at Chickens at Chicken & Egg stall




Bakery




Tyre Changing Stall




Deb at Ganesh Temple




Home Depot!  : )




Lowes!  : )




Notary



Veggie Cart




Veggie Stall



















Fruit Stall






Hand made Ganesh at Temple

There are other places to shop in Pune.  Bigger malls, more commercialized chain stores but nothing compares to the small town friendliness you get going to Mundhwa.