Trek to Ghangad (Lonavala)

Posted by on Mar 7, 2011 in Treking Experiences | 0 comments

Finally we did it. Yeah ! Ghangad was planned by us twice but we failed both times. Read my Ulhas valley trek blog. This was the third time we planned for Ghangad and finally got it done. This was as a one day trek, it’s a short one and very cute one. Anyone can enjoy this trek like anything and so did we. The day started with journey from Mumbai to Lonavala in Indryani express in the morning 5.50 am. We travelled in the reserved coach. We were standing near the door and enjoyed the beautiful scenes of valleys which can be seen after Karjat. At 8.25 we reached Lonavala station and we had to...

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Trek to Songiri fort (Palasdhari)

Posted by on Mar 7, 2011 in Treking Experiences | 1 comment

We ended the year 2010 with lot of thrills and the last trek we did was Ulhas valley on 25th Dec 2010. It was now time to begin 2011 with some good trek. We decided to summit the fort of Songiri this time. The fort is also known as Palasdhari and is situated near Palasdhari station on the central railway line after Karjat station on the Khopoli line. So the plan was made and bags were ready. Total we were 11 people for this trek. 8 of us were going to travel by train and the rest of 3 members were going to meet us directly at the base village of Songiri by a private vehicle. According to our...

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