Kille - Purandar

My younger bro Aniket was visiting us in Pune, after i got married. We two decided to go Purandar Fort. Purandar is again a huge fort, actually they are twin fort's Purandar and Vajragad.  This is the place where "Sambhaji" born and treaty of Purandar signed between Shivaji Maharaj and Jai Singh. Purandar was indian army camp for long time, now abandoned. You can also find british era building's on the fort.

You can either trek to Purandar Fort or you can drive till top as Fort is well connected by road. We decided to drive by bike till top of fort. We both left in morning form my Kothrud house, then via Chandni chowk we moved ahead on satara road. Fort is around 40 Kms from Pune, after 1 1/2 hr of drive you need to take a left towards Narayangaon. Purandar fort is on the backdrop of famous "Datta Temple" in Narayangaon. On way towards Narayangaon you will see a "Tirupati" of North, yes there is an exact replica of Tirupati Balaji temple here, Temple is very clean and Nice.

As you move ahead you will see small ghat section, and then some more old temples. These temples has classic architecture, just behind those temples you will see a Huge  fort. We drive on the circular roads to finally reach till main gate of fort. Fort was really very huge, i just loved the view of fort in the backdrop of statue of Baji Prabhu.

We parked our bike and moved ahead to explore the fort. As you walk you will see a very old Shiva Temple on right, it's Purandareshwar temple. Just behind this temple goes way to reach top of the fort. Its an 1/2 an hour trek form there to reach the top. We started small trek towards the top, it was very small pathway. After 15- 20 mins of trek, we saw an angry cow standing right ahead on the road.  As soon as she saw us she started running towards us, in no time i was on one tree and aniket on other.. ha ha,, that was kind of funny when we were waiting for cow to go.

Once she left we came down and started again, reached the Top of fort. It was really windy out at the top, we explored the fort. After some photo sessions we started descending down.  We were back to our bikes within an hour and started on our way back to home. It was really nice one day trip.

-Jyotin