Ryewood Park - Lonavala-Khandala (Maharashtra)

Reywood Park is exactly behind the main market area of Lonavla is the popular picnic spot of Ryewood Park. This is supposed to be a botanical garden but is really just a large park. There are lawns, trees and plenty of open spaces for picnic lunches in the cool shade. Opposite the park is an old Christian cemetery which is worth a visit; some of the gravestones are more than a hundred years old. In some spots, if you are observant, you can even look down a vault below a gravestone. Unfortunately, vandals have removed the lead from the engraving and stolen other adornments from many of the interesting headstones.