peacocks of morachi chincholi

peacock dancing at morachi chincholi, maharashtra

Away from the bustling city life of Pune, towards Ahmednagar, lies a small village called Morachi Chincholi. What makes this agricultural village special is the abundance of peacocks grazing through the fields and dancing under the tamarind trees. And that is how the village got its present name, as in marathi, it translates to tamarind trees for the peacocks (mor ~ peacock and chinch ~ tamarind).


ploughing at morachi chincholi

It was wonderful to eat and stay at the village, enjoying the evening stroll along the fields, and the night sky filled with the stars. We saw a few shooting stars here and there, since a long time!

Maharashtra, India

20 Responses

  1. Afsha Pathan says:

    I’ve visited morachi chincholi…and it is the best destination for weekend trips i must say…We’ve experienced the authentic culture of Maharashtra at Morachi chincholi.

  2. Happy New Year to all Three of You !

  3. Hello Roxy, Sarah & Pratya, we are all fine and the winter this year is not so bad. We had only a couple of snowfalls, and each time the snow went away very quickly. Best wishes for 2011 to all of you

  4. Hello Roxy and Sarah, came here to look for any recent pictures of Pratya but didn’t find any – may be they are hidden some where? 🙂

    Any way, best wishes to all of you and the respective grandmothers for Christmas and new year.
    Sunil & Nadia

    • sarah says:

      Dear Sunil ji and Nadia ji,

      We are all doing good and right now spending Christmas in Kerala.

      The last 3 months were busy with various travels back to back. Pratya is now 16 months, running around and chasing the chickens most of the times. We took many pictures, but got very little time to put them up for friends to view. Will try to send them by email.

      I hope you had a splendid Christmas with your family. Our warm wishes for the season to all. 🙂

      Hugs and kiss to Nadia. We do miss you both.

      Pratya, Juby, Roxy

    • rocksea says:

      Hello Sunil & Nadia, buon anno! come stai? tuto bene? We are keeping good. After all the travels, and christmas at home, we are finally back at Pune. How is Marco and Atam? Convey our wishes to them too. Miss you all. How is the winter at Bologna this time?

      Love, Roxy, Juby & Pratya

  5. Sarita says:

    Very inviting pictures Roxy, feel like coming back home! So, did you actually stay there…or you guys stopped by the village enroute to somewhere? It would be interesting to know that villagers in India still great at atithi devo bahva instead of closing the doors at strangers!

    • rocksea says:

      Hey Sarita, wishes for a happy new year. Yes we stayed there overnight. Homestay facilities were provided by a family, so it was very much relaxing.

  6. Marlin says:

    beautiful shots!

  7. radhika says:

    lovely,picture perfect 🙂

  8. Happy Kitten says:

    Lovely… with your camera eyes hope to see and read more of India….we dont mind waiting for Italy 🙂

  9. blandina says:

    Rocksea le tue foto mi danno la voglia di tornare in India! Non sono mai stata intorno a Pune, ora quest’area è in cima alla mia lista.

  10. Indrani says:

    You travel a lot. 🙂
    Interesting place this one, a photographer’ s haven.

  11. Welcome back again annae! ini Italykku pokunnille?

  12. Mridula says:

    Read about this at Anu’s blog as well. http://anushankarn.blogspot.com/2010/06/morachi-chincholi-part-2-peacocks.html

    Feels like my kind of a place

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