Mapro Garden
Mapro Garden is a very very popular tourist spot in Mahabaleshwar. Mapro premises has Chocolate factory, a small nursery, a restaurant serving delectable food, children's play area and retail outlet selling mapro products.
The name Mapro is short form of Mahabaleshwar Products.
Mapro Garden is situated at Gureghar on Mahabaleshwar-Panchgani road around 8 km from Panchgani
and 11 km from Mahabaleshwar.
The restaurant serves limited food options but food quality is excellent.
- Sandwiches (Around Rs. 180)
- Pizza (Around Rs. 400)
- Strawberry with Cream (Around Rs. 169 - 199)
Mehndi decoration is free for tourists.
Mapro Company
Mapro which was founded in 1959 by Mr. Kishor Vora, has a processing capacity of about 30,000 tonnes per year across its four different factories.
Mapro revenue has been more than Rs. 100 crores.
Falero, pulpy fruit chews is Mapro's most popular product contributing around 50% of total revenue.
Tourists can buy variety of Mapro products like syrups, sauces, jelly, chocolates, mocktail mixtures and much more.
ATM
The Mapro Garden premises also has a HDFC ATM facility.
Strawberry Festival
Famous For: Strawberries for free!
Mapro also hosts famous Strawberry Festival in the month of March/April during the Easter weekend.
Over 250 farmers from nearby villages participate in the four-day festival, opening their farms to tourists.
Mapro garden offers strawberries completely free to the tourists.
The Festival showcases raw strawberries and innovative strawberry-based products such as
strawberry pizza, strawberry bhel, chocolate dipped strawberries and strawberry sandwiches
among others.
The festival also includes traditional folk performances of Dhol and Lezim for which
dancers are invited from Pratapgad.
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In this article : Must-Visit Places
| Venna Lake | Arthur's Seat | Kate's Point | Mapro Garden |
| Sunset Point | Strawberry Farm | Table Land | Old Mahabaleshwar |
| Wilson Point | Pratapgad | ||