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 kilometers (3,900 ft) and is about 137 meters (449 ft) below the crater rim. The meteor crater rim is about 1.8 kilometers (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.

 

• Your tour will begin with a morning pick-up from your hotel/residence in Aurangabad city limits.
• Post a short meet and greet, you will be driven to the Lonar crater. Once at the lake, spend your time exploring the lake and its surrounding areas.
• 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.

 

• Hotel pickup and drop (within city limits).
• Charges for the private air-conditioned cab.
• The driver and fuel charges.
• Usage of the vehicle for up to 300 kilometres as per the itinerary.

 

• Airport pick-up or drop.
• All parking & toll charges.
• Monument entrance charges.
• Any meals during the tour for the guests.
• Anything else not specified in the inclusions above.

 

• This is not a guided tour.
• Pick up and drop locations has to be same. It can be different but extra charges would be applicable.
• Night charge of Rs. 300 is applicable if the cab service is used between 10:00 pm to 6:00 am.
• The tour has a kilometre limit of 300 kilometres. After 300 kilometres, additional per kilometer charge will be applicable as below:
  • For Sedan (4-seater) - Rs. 11 per km
  • For SUV (6-seater) - Rs. 14 per km

 

• Full refund if cancelled before* 3 days
• No refund after that

 

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