"Rajgad" is indeed king of all forts in Maharstra, King himself lived here for more than 25 years. Monsoon, just thought of this word itself refresh you. In summers i used to have one window open in my office pc for IMD(Indian Meteorological Department) Site. Just to follow when monsoon is coming, once arrived, when it will reach Pune. My collegues use to tease me, "Hey frog is waiting for rains.. :-)". Coming to the trek summers crossed, monsoon came and my planning started. Me and Vikas planned to go for Rajgad Trek, Anki and Deepali (Vikas's Wife) also agreed for the Trek. As planned it was a day Trek. We were suppose to leave early morning and planned to be back by Night.
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Me and Anki left from our vishrantwadi house and reached shivaji nagar, Vikas and Deepali were suppose to join us here. After 10-15 mins they came and we went ahead with journey. Forgot to mention we were going to Rajgad by bikes. One way to go Rajgad is by bangalore highway but i choose diffrent route which goes via Pabe Ghat. We took sinhgad road and moved towards khadakvasla, had breakfast on way. After 45 mins of drive we saw some fencing near road in which very huge birds were running here and there. Those birds were ostriches.... it was ostrich farm!!! We never thought in our wildest dream that we gonna see ostriches that day,but yesss that's the fun of exploring new things you will always gonna get surprizesss . We took pics of every Ostrich present in that fence.. :).
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We moved forward,, after an hour of driving we reached the ghat section. Climate was awesome and surroundings were lush green, we halted for a while to clicked some pics. We were on our bikes again, descended down via circular roads. Aftere some time we were at point where way to Torna fort was on right side and Rajgad on left. We asked local guy for the route towards base village. On his direction's we were on our way towards base village, on the way we saw one small roadside hotel. Had tea and "garma garam" kanda bhajji on the hotel, we asked a fellow traveller that how much time trek will take. He replied atleast 3 hrs to reach there and you should stay at fort at night as it won't be possible for you to come back today itself. Me and Vikas looked at each other our plan was "tai tai Phissss" even before trek was started, basically due to lack of planning and we enjoyed route so much that forgot destination.
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Neways we thought we came here for trek, we will trek. We reached the base village, parked our vehicles. We started our trek, this time destination was not fort but "Time". We had three hours so we decided we will trek for 1 1/2 hour and will return back. We had loads of fun while trekking,,played fultoo Antakshari Vikas/Deepali in one team and Me/Anki in other. Had some photo sessions on our way, Trek was nice and easy. It was drizzling and we were all wet.We completed 1 1/2 hrs and started descending down. After some time we were back to our bikes and moved back towards Pune. We took bangalore highway while coming back as it was getting dark. We stopped at a dhaba on our way,we had all kinds of "Bhajji",, Paneer Bhajji,, Mixed Bhajji,, Chilli Bhajji,, Potato Bhajji etc etc. Those were really delicious. Reached Pune by 10 Pm. Missed the fort but all and all it was a nice outing.
-Jyotin
Me and Anki left from our vishrantwadi house and reached shivaji nagar, Vikas and Deepali were suppose to join us here. After 10-15 mins they came and we went ahead with journey. Forgot to mention we were going to Rajgad by bikes. One way to go Rajgad is by bangalore highway but i choose diffrent route which goes via Pabe Ghat. We took sinhgad road and moved towards khadakvasla, had breakfast on way. After 45 mins of drive we saw some fencing near road in which very huge birds were running here and there. Those birds were ostriches.... it was ostrich farm!!! We never thought in our wildest dream that we gonna see ostriches that day,but yesss that's the fun of exploring new things you will always gonna get surprizesss . We took pics of every Ostrich present in that fence.. :).
We moved forward,, after an hour of driving we reached the ghat section. Climate was awesome and surroundings were lush green, we halted for a while to clicked some pics. We were on our bikes again, descended down via circular roads. Aftere some time we were at point where way to Torna fort was on right side and Rajgad on left. We asked local guy for the route towards base village. On his direction's we were on our way towards base village, on the way we saw one small roadside hotel. Had tea and "garma garam" kanda bhajji on the hotel, we asked a fellow traveller that how much time trek will take. He replied atleast 3 hrs to reach there and you should stay at fort at night as it won't be possible for you to come back today itself. Me and Vikas looked at each other our plan was "tai tai Phissss" even before trek was started, basically due to lack of planning and we enjoyed route so much that forgot destination.
-Jyotin
Very well written post. The most spectacular site on Raigad Fort is the Balekilla, from where you can see the beautiful views of the enchanting Sahyadris and the propitious Bhatghar Lake. Click here to know more about Rajgad fort.
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