Lonar Crater Guided Day Tour from Aurangabad
Trip Overview
Embark a journey to explore a notified National Geo-heritage Site with a certified guide. Located around 130 KM from the city of Aurangabad, Lonar Crater can be reached in a 3 hours drive.
Highlights
- An ideal outing to visit the third largest saltwater lake in the world.
- You will be at one of the four known, hyper-velocity, impact craters in basaltic rock anywhere on Earth.
- Service of a certified guide and an experienced driver and a well-maintained car.
Detailed overview
Lonar Lake, also known as Lonar crater, is a notified National Geo-heritage Monument, saline, soda lake, located at Lonar in Buldhana district, Maharashtra. Lonar Lake was created by a meteor impact during the Pleistocene Epoch. It is one of the four known, hyper-velocity, impact craters in basaltic rock anywhere on Earth. The other three basaltic impact structures are in southern Brazil. Lonar Lake has a mean diameter of 1.2 kilometres (3,900 ft) and is about 137 meters (449 ft) below the crater rim. The meteor crater rim is about 1.8 kilometres (5,900 ft) in diameter.
Lonar Crater sits inside the Deccan Plateau—a massive plain of volcanic basalt rock created by eruptions some 65 million years ago. Its location in this basalt field suggested to some geologists that it was a volcanic crater. Today, however, Lonar Crater is understood to be the result of a meteorite impact that occurred between 35,000 and 50,000 years ago. The water in the lake is both saline and alkaline.
Itinerary
- Your tour will begin with a morning pick-up from your hotel/residence in Aurangabad city limits.
- Post a short meet and greet with your guide, you will be driven to Lonar Crater. Once at the lake, spend your time exploring the lake and its surrounding areas.
- Your guide will take you on a trail around the lake and the adjoining village while educating you on the history of the place. Some of the spots that will be covered during your tour are:
- Lonar lake
- Gomukh Temple
- Motha Hanuman Mandir
- Ambar Lake
- Temple Point (Ram Mandir)
- King's Seat
- Daitya Sudan Mandir
- For those with an interest in wildlife, the monitor lizard is reported to be prominent in the area. One can also spot peafowls, gazelles, black-winged stilts, brahminy ducks, grebes, shelducks, red-wattled lapwings, parakeets, robins, wild boars and many more.
- After the completion of the tour, you will be driven back to Aurangabad and be dropped at your hotel/residence in city limits.
Basic Details
Inclusions
- Residence/Hotel pickup and drop (within city limits).
- Charges for the private air-conditioned cab.
- The driver and fuel charges.
- Monument entrance charges.
- Guide charges at Lonar Crater.
Exclusions
- Camera charges.
- Any meal or beverage for the guests during the tour.
- Anything else not specified in the inclusions above.
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Important Information
- This is a fixed tour. No customization in route etc. is possible.
- The vehicle assigned would be as per the size of the group.
- Sedan (4-seater) models provided are Suzuki Dzire, Toyota Etios or similar.
- SUV (6-seater) models provided are Toyota Innova, Mahindra Xylo, Suzuki Ertiga or similar.
- We suggest wearing comfortable footwear as a considerable amount of walking is involved in exploring the caves.
Cancellation Policy
- Full refund if cancelled before* 7 days
- 50% refund if cancelled before 3 days
- No refund after that
Meet-up Information/Reporting Point
- Hotel/residence pick-up and drop off within Aurangabad city limits.
- The driver will pick you up directly from your hotel or specified pick up point. Please enter the full pick up address at the checkout page.
- The driver and cab details will be shared with you 2 to 4 hours prior to the tour start time.
₹ 1650 Per Person
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