After spending around 6 Months in Bangalore, i was badly missing all those Trekking experiences in Maharashtra. I joined one mountaineering club in bangalore but never managed to go with them. Finally on a long weekend i planned to go on trek with Trekdi Group, this time to Mahimatgad and Marleshwar. Marleshwar is famous shiva temple while Mahimatgad is fort used in times of Shivaji Maharaj to keep an eye on Konkan Region.
I asked Anki if she will be joining trek, she said yes and i did bookings for both of us. I travelled from Bangalore to Pune, KSRTC buses are really nice. It was a Bangalore-Mumbai bus, so it dropped me at katraj. Felt great on being in pune, Anki was suppose to come by train from mumbai so i reached Pune railway station. We were meeting after really long time, after that short "Hi-Hello" on dadar station. As she arrived we directly went FC road our meeting point for the trek. Had dinner and waited for other people to join as we refreshed our childhood memories.
We started from the FC road, stopped in between to had tea. I woke up in morning, we were at Hotel near Sangameshwar Road railway station on Konkan railway line. The Place was really nice, we all had breakfast and moved ahead. Atfirst we went to samadhi of Sambhaji and then visited the Karneshwar Temple. This is the only temple dedicated to "Karna". Architecture of temple was really nice and we had great time. Then on way to Marleshwar we stopped for Lunch, hotel was near to river where we played Antakshari on full volume.
We reached Marleshwar in the evening, Marleshwar is famous for Shiva Temple. We all visited the temple and then had bath at waterfall near to temple. Mann that was really relaxing feeling having bath in Waterfall after exhausting day, Full Masti we did. By the time we made lots of friends, Darshana, Harshad, Sumeet lots more. After visiting marleshwar we reach Kundi base village of Mahimatgad. We had to stay in govt. school of the village, first of all we all prepared for dinner. Trekdi team carried one stove and gas cyclinder, our dinner was hot tomato soup and Magii (Magii Magii... ) :). It was good teamwork.
It was really cold night of Jan, next morning we wake up, had tea and left for the Trek. Trek was nice without any surprises, as we were moving up we saw two police man carrying Indian National Flag. It was 26th Jan Republic day and the were carrying Flag to host at the top of fort which they do every year. We all happily joined them and hosted flag and sang National Athem. It was patriotic feeling and pleasent surprise as no one of us expected we will be hosting National Flag at the fort.
After exploring the fort we started descending down. By 2 Pm we started for Pune. As usual returning journey is always more fun as we all know each other after all that sharing and caring. We were back to Pune in midnight, then after "Bye- Bye" to everyone and giving each other's mail id's, i dropped Anki at her freind's place and i reached at my old house in pune in pradhikaran. This trip was really special in my life and it started a new chapter.
-Jyotin
We started from the FC road, stopped in between to had tea. I woke up in morning, we were at Hotel near Sangameshwar Road railway station on Konkan railway line. The Place was really nice, we all had breakfast and moved ahead. Atfirst we went to samadhi of Sambhaji and then visited the Karneshwar Temple. This is the only temple dedicated to "Karna". Architecture of temple was really nice and we had great time. Then on way to Marleshwar we stopped for Lunch, hotel was near to river where we played Antakshari on full volume.
We reached Marleshwar in the evening, Marleshwar is famous for Shiva Temple. We all visited the temple and then had bath at waterfall near to temple. Mann that was really relaxing feeling having bath in Waterfall after exhausting day, Full Masti we did. By the time we made lots of friends, Darshana, Harshad, Sumeet lots more. After visiting marleshwar we reach Kundi base village of Mahimatgad. We had to stay in govt. school of the village, first of all we all prepared for dinner. Trekdi team carried one stove and gas cyclinder, our dinner was hot tomato soup and Magii (Magii Magii... ) :). It was good teamwork.
It was really cold night of Jan, next morning we wake up, had tea and left for the Trek. Trek was nice without any surprises, as we were moving up we saw two police man carrying Indian National Flag. It was 26th Jan Republic day and the were carrying Flag to host at the top of fort which they do every year. We all happily joined them and hosted flag and sang National Athem. It was patriotic feeling and pleasent surprise as no one of us expected we will be hosting National Flag at the fort.
After exploring the fort we started descending down. By 2 Pm we started for Pune. As usual returning journey is always more fun as we all know each other after all that sharing and caring. We were back to Pune in midnight, then after "Bye- Bye" to everyone and giving each other's mail id's, i dropped Anki at her freind's place and i reached at my old house in pune in pradhikaran. This trip was really special in my life and it started a new chapter.
-Jyotin
Karneshwar Temple is really amassing place. Find more information about Karneshwar Temple Sangameshwar at http://www.touristsafari.com/temples/karneshwar-temple-sangameshwar
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