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Was pretty much excited yesterday with the rappelling plans woke up at 4:30 so that I don’t miss the 7:03 train from Dadar.

The rappelling was organized by a group called Nisarg Brahman, and the place was Kondane caves.

Its a 45 minutes trek thru some jungles from Karjat (lots of nostalgia associated with Karjat).

The base village is called Kondivade. To reach there you need to reach Karjat and from Karjat station walk to Sri Ram ‘pul’ (bridge) where you get 6 seaters which would take you to the base village. The trek from the base village to Kondane caves is a very simple 45 mins walk. Only problem we faced was that while coming back it was raining and the dangers of getting lost was always there.

The caves were beautifully carved out in 5th century BC by some Buddhist monks.

As usual here too the structures were vandalized by what I call the White Paint Can Jokers. Lots of places had Bunty love Bubbly type messages written on it also We Were The First Idiots To reach here type ones.

Some jokers had also drawn mustaches on the sculptures. I really fail to understand what these freaks get by spoiling sculptures which I’m sure would have taken months for some poor monk in the 5th century to carve out of rock.

There were 90 folks out there and we reached there by 11 AM, but the rappelling had to start late because one of the participants went loitering around and fell on some rocks breaking his wrists, the organizers had to rush that dude to the hospital thus delaying our rappelling. It finally started at  2 PM, in the end only 30 odd folks were fortunate enough to rappel.

A lil bit disappointed about not been able to rappel but I met couple of interesting folks out there.

Couldn’t get a camera to click snaps, but you can visit this site for some pictures of this amazing place.

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Finally got the Salher snaps courtesy Dinesh.

This snap is of the twin forts of Salota and Salher from our base camp Waghamba, the one on the right is Salher fort, the highest fort in Maharashtra its at a whopping 5400 feet, that was our destination.

Yours truly posing in front of the mighty forts.

The second snap is of Slaher fort magnificient aint it?

There are other snaps too thanks to Dinesh.

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Salher fort is the highest fort in Maharashtra located near a village called Waghamba in Nashik. Its near the Gujarat border you can see Gujarat from the top of the fort.This was the first time we were visiting this fort, so we just had a fair idea about the travelling details from the Internet.We started off on Friday night from Shivajinagar, Pune, we caught a bus at 11:30 Pm for Nashik. Reached Nashik by 3:30 early morning, the bus left us at the new ST stand we had to catch a bus to Satana from Nashik, the bus for Satana was from the old ST stand which is 5 mins walk from the new one. The bus for Satana was from 5 in the morning. We thought we would hang around there till then but we met a paper delivery guy who had a van and was on his way to Satana at the same rate and we decided to hitchhike with him. We were waiting in the van and the paper delivery dude had gone somewhere for a couple of mins a police jeep pulled next to us.
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Trying to get back to blogging after a long time thanks to blogger wasn’t able to upload my posts was getting some weird Java error which didn’t have any solution !!!

Nothing much happened in life went to Harishchandragad last week, awesome place unfortunately its full of litter.

Dunno why these so called trekkers don’t follow the most simple rule of trekking "Take back what you bring".

The snaps are fundoo would upload them as soon as I get them.

Next in line would be a Torna- Raigad trek, its gonna be an endurance test just like Rajgarh-Torna which zapped us fully.