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The Lonavala cover: Chikki on a monsoon morning
Chikki on Mustard Leaf — the Lonavala tile
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Chikki · Maharashtra · India

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The Lonavala cover: Chikki on a monsoon morning
Chikki on Mustard Leaf — the Lonavala tile

Why this icon Lonavala is known for its chikki — jaggery and peanut brittle. Source: en.wikipedia.org

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Climb Lohagad in the monsoon green. Take chikki home.

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The story

Chikki on a monsoon morning: glossy slabs of peanut chikki are stacked on a roadside counter close by, and beyond it a traveller under an umbrella eats a square while waterfalls pour off the green, flat-topped hills.

Why this picture

Lonavala, on the Sahyadri crest between Mumbai and Pune, is known for chikki, the glossy jaggery-and-peanut brittle first sold to travellers on the railway and still stacked on counters all along the town's roads. Its tourist season is the monsoon, when the flat-topped basalt hills and the forested slopes beyond them turn green, waterfalls stream off every scarp, black kites hang in the wind and flocks of green pigeons, Maharashtra's state bird, work the forest edges.

The sky wears a faint Paithani, from Maharashtra.

The motion

The waterfalls pour into the mist at the hills' foot; clouds drift past the sun; a black kite circles over the scarp; green pigeons cross the whole sky; the tree sways; the sun's rays turn. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Mustard Leaf #E2E418
Jade #04B495
Paddy Green #B2D234

Lonavala takes Mustard Leaf #E2E418, one of the three Fields colours — with its icon in Steel Grey on it.

Another moment in Lonavala

A second scene: another true moment at Lonavala, drawn in the graphic vocabulary with the animals and city symbols that belong there. Wide for screens, tall for a phone held upright.

The second Lonavala scene: A moonlit night in late May, camping on the shore of Pawna Lake

The story

A moonlit night in late May, camping on the shore of Pawna Lake: across the water Lohagad and its Vinchu Kata spur stand against the full moon, fireflies blink in the trees before the rains, flying foxes cross the sky and a traveller stands by the tents, pointing at the fireflies.

Why this moment

Zostel Plus Lonavala sits on Pawna Lake, about 10 km from Lohagad, with kayaking at sunset, stargazing and treks to the fort; the lake's shore is the region's camping ground, and Lohagad (1,033 m) with its long fortified Vinchu Kata spur stands over it. Fireflies swarm in the Sahyadri forests in late May and early June, just before the monsoon, and Indian flying foxes leave their roosts after dusk.

The motion

Two flying foxes wheel round the moon, the whole loop; the lake's rows run; the moon's rings turn; fireflies blink in the trees; the trees sway. A 16-second loop.

Lonavala in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Lonavala, drawn in the Brand Manual's city language: a monument in the city grey with its openings cut, the things of the place in flat landscape colours. Each comes in colour and in the city grey. Every place's symbols

  • Lohagad's Vinchu KataMonument

    Lohagad (1,033 m), the iron fort above Malavli: its walls run round a sheer basalt top, and to the north-west a long fortified spur, Vinchu Kata, the scorpion's tail, runs out along the ridge.

    SVGGrey SVGPNG
  • Roasted cornOf the place

    Bhutta: corn roasted on coals and rubbed with lemon, chilli and salt, eaten at the Lonavala viewpoints in the monsoon mist.

    SVGGrey SVGPNG

Also drawn for Lonavala 2

Detailed icons from the library that name Lonavala among their places: one drawing, on the page of every place it belongs to. Those drawn for Lonavala alone come first. Every detailed icon

Say hello to Lonavala's Zobus

Zobu in Lonavala's own dress, on the palette. Hover or tap one and it waves. Each comes still and alive — idle, hello and hop — for stickers, stories and the app.

Every destination's Zobus →

The animals of Lonavala

Animals and birds the research behind Lonavala's picture names, drawn in the Brand Manual's animal style, in colour and in the city grey. All the animals of India

The kit

Everything Lonavala needs: its profile, its cover, wide and tall, its icon, tile, display picture and lockup, its loop and the symbol becoming it, its second scene, its city map, its city symbols and its Zobus — every file ready to download.

46 files in one zip, the cover, its second scene, its symbols, its Zobus and its city map included
The Lonavala profile: its cover, its tile and its words
Profile

Lonavala’s page as a story, 1080 × 1920: its cover, its tile, its name, its line and its verbs — for stories, status and a phone’s lock screen.

SVGOther formats
The Lonavala cover, wide
Cover, wide

1600 × 900, for screens: a page’s top, a slide, a share card. The still is the loop’s first frame. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVGAnimated SVGPNG
The Lonavala cover, tall
Cover, tall

900 × 1600, composed for a phone held upright: stories, reels, a lock screen. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVGAnimated SVGPNG
Chikki — the Lonavala tile
Tile

The icon in one colour on Lonavala’s own — for a grid, a story, a sticker.

SVGPNG
Chikki — the Lonavala icon
Icon

An object: flat landscape colours. Transparent; the mono takes any one colour.

SVGPNGMono SVG
Chikki, Lonavala — the icon, alive
Loop

A breeze sways the field stalks at its base. 7.2 s, seamless.

Animated SVGLottie JSON
Motion

The symbol becomes Lonavala and turns back — a Lottie loop for stories, the app and the web.

Lottie JSON
The Lonavala display picture, as a circleThe Lonavala display picture, square
Display picture

Circle-safe: the colour, the icon and the name — for chats, socials and the app.

SVGPNG
Zostel Lonavala lockup
Lockup

The horizontal lockup, with Lonavala under the wordmark — for signage, email and merch.

SVG
Lohagad's Vinchu KataRoasted corn
City symbols

Lonavala’s symbols, each in colour and in the city grey, as SVG and PNG — in the zip’s symbols folder.

See them with their files
Lonavala Zobu, femaleLonavala Zobu, male
Zobus

Lonavala’s Zobu pair, still and alive (idle, hello, hop), waving still and as a face (a profile picture) — in the zip’s zobus folder.

Female SVGMale SVG

Also made for Lonavala 5

The rest of what the library holds for Lonavala: the pattern of its region, the card its links share, each opening its own file or gallery.

The map we made for Lonavala

Seven things to do around Zostel Plus Lonavala, each in its true direction with its distance and time from the door — a map made for your phone.

  1. Climb Lohagad's higher twinVisapur · 18.5 km · 35 min drive
  2. Walk out to the scorpion's tailLohagad · 8.3 km · 30 min drive
  3. Climb the triangle fort's stepsTikona · 19 km · 49 min drive
  4. Kayak the lake at sunsetLakeside · 0.1 km · 1 min walk
  5. Eat hot corn in the mistRajmachi Point · 15.9 km · 25 min drive
  6. Trek the canyon to Kune fallsCanyon Valley · 20.9 km · 43 min drive
  7. Buy chikki to take homeLonavala bazaar · 10.7 km · 18 min drive
Download the phone map (PNG)Download the phone map (SVG)

1080 × 1350, for a phone or a story. Distances and times from Zostel Plus Lonavala, measured on OpenStreetMap routing. Map for representation purposes only.

On the map

Lonavala is in Maharashtra, India — one of the 84 places where Zostel is live.

Region
Maharashtra
Country
India
Where
18.75° N, 73.41° E
Landscape
Fields
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