Our walks
Nine ways to read one city
Pune is seventeen peths, a cantonment, a cave temple, a Peshwa garden and several centuries of argument about all of it. Each of our walks takes one thread and follows it on foot — about two hours, a kilometre or two, and as many questions as you like.
Old City Heritage Walk
The walk we come back to again and again. Through Kasba, Shaniwar and Budhwar Peth — past Pune's oldest temple, the walls of Shaniwar Wada, and wada doorways that have been opening onto the same lanes for two hundred years.
Pataleshwar Caves
A whole temple cut downward out of one sheet of Deccan basalt, twelve hundred years ago, when this was not Pune yet but the village of Bhamburda. Ten minutes from JM Road, and most Punekars have never been inside.
Sarasbaug: Heritage & Nature
Everyone in Pune has been to Sarasbaug. Almost nobody knows it was built as a lake — or that it is named after the cranes Sawai Madhavrao released onto its water.
Colonial Chronicles: A Walk through Camp
Two miles and two centuries from the peths. Basalt churches, wrought-iron verandahs, Irani bakeries and East Street — the other Pune, built by an empire and kept alive by everyone who came after it.
In & Around Shaniwar Peth
One of Pune's oldest neighbourhoods, founded under Murtaza Nizam Shah, and one of its least explored. Quiet lanes, magnificent wadas and temples the Peshwas built.
Timeless Tales of Laxmi Road
Pune had a shopping street sixty years before it had a mall. Laxmi Road is retail, ritual, architecture and civic history all running along the same kilometre.
Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum
Twenty thousand objects of everyday Indian life, gathered by one man over six decades. We take a themed route through it — so you leave having actually seen something, rather than everything.
Festival Special Walks
Pune is a different city during a festival. We run special walks timed to Ganeshotsav, Diwali, Hanuman Jayanti, Women's Day and World Heritage Week — because some things can only be seen on the day.
Kasba Peth & Budhwar Peth
Kasba is the oldest peth in the city and Budhwar grew up beside it. Together they hold Pune's founding temple, its densest surviving wada fabric, and its most complicated present.
When is the next one?
Dates are announced on Instagram
We do not run a fixed calendar. Walks are scheduled around the season, the festival and the weather, and posted about a fortnight ahead.
@ayanheritagewalks
Every walk — date, meeting point, timing and cost — is posted here first. It is also where the photographs from last Sunday end up.
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Bring your own group, or join the next walk
We run private walks for schools, offices, visiting family and anyone who wants a route built around their own interest. Registration is mandatory for every walk — a call or a message is all it takes.