Matheran’s hotels and guest-houses are mostly tree-shaded old bungalows width slate or tin roofs. There are several hotels, to suit all budgets. Better hotels are Rugby (tel 291/2) on Kotwal Road with rooms and full board for Rs1200, and Lord’s ...

Matheran on the Sahyadri (Western Ghats) range was discovered in 1850 by Hugh Povntz Malet, the then Collector of Thane district. He climbed the hill now known as One Tree Hill and liked the general area enough to subsequently have ...