Moonlight Trek to RajMachi....
Saturday morning 10 AM... I got ready and went out for BreakFast....
Met Loki and Aravind in the hotel, Suddenly their office friends appeared and put colours on him... and eventually every one was pulled into ir and we played a great Holi...
Loki asked me about my plans for the evening and I told them about the trek
They were excited about the night trek and said that they would join me( Poor Guys they never knew they had to wall more than 20 KMS one way!!)
We packed our stuff by 9 PM and left for the shivajinagar station - it was raining heavily in Pune and we havent had our dinner yet.... qwe had some bhel and omlets in the station and were waiting for the Organinser of the trek to arrive...
the trqain was late by 15 mins... we boarded the crowded Lonawala Local by 10:15 PM and then qwe got our seats to sit after Talegaon station - It was a good feel travelling in a local... Reached Lonawala Station by 11:30 PM.
Had a round of instructions from Anand.. who was leading the trek...
We started to walk towards our base camp Udhewadi which is around 20 KM from Lonawala... we had a round of intoduction on the way....
It was tyring to walk for suck a long distance and as usual I was one among the last to make it and finally after 4 pitstops we reached Udhewadi around 4:30 AM in the morning and we got rest of 1.5 hrs and got up at 6 AM to have delicious hot Poha for breakfast....
by 7 AM we left for the fort which was around 2 KMS from the village and was about a 30 MIN trek to reach the summit of the fort... it was wonderful to see from the top... cool breeze to add to the excitement.... As the sun began to heat up we decended down...
and rested for some time... now the group headed to the 2nd fort the Manoranjan fort... I was exhausted and choose to rest....
Once the group was back from Manoranjan we went back to the BaseCamp aroun 12 PM and had some cool refreshing Nimbu paani... and were waiting for the Lunch..
We were served Lunch around 1:00 PM... I was not able to walk properly as my muscels had given up and were craving for rest...