Wandering in Sahyadri continue with VISAPUR FORT
One more fort conquered, and yeah, moved out of the bucket list of TO DO TREKS MANSOON 2013. Visapur, it is. Its near Pune, base village is MALVALI. To reach here, one needs to board into the local train from Pune to Malvali (One station prior to lonavla) and then you can start walking.
We started this one day trip with 10 enthusiastic trekkers, perfect mix of beginners and experienced. We boarded into 6.30am local form Pune station and to our surprise, it was on time. At this time of the day, trains are not much crowed so you can give rest to your legs at least for this part of journey.
We reached Malvali station by 7.45AM and started our on foot journey from here. A well maintained road leads from station to the base village. It’s hardly 30 minute walk. On the way there is a hotel, Parth (small in house), where we fed our bodies with tasty Poha and Upma plus not-to-forget TEA. Hotel owner also helped us find a guide for the trek as the way is full of misleading trails, Hrishikesh, A kid but our pathfinder for this VISAPUR fort.
One more fort conquered, and yeah, moved out of the bucket list of TO DO TREKS MANSOON 2013. Visapur, it is. Its near Pune, base village is MALVALI. To reach here, one needs to board into the local train from Pune to Malvali (One station prior to lonavla) and then you can start walking.
We started this one day trip with 10 enthusiastic trekkers, perfect mix of beginners and experienced. We boarded into 6.30am local form Pune station and to our surprise, it was on time. At this time of the day, trains are not much crowed so you can give rest to your legs at least for this part of journey.
We reached Malvali station by 7.45AM and started our on foot journey from here. A well maintained road leads from station to the base village. It’s hardly 30 minute walk. On the way there is a hotel, Parth (small in house), where we fed our bodies with tasty Poha and Upma plus not-to-forget TEA. Hotel owner also helped us find a guide for the trek as the way is full of misleading trails, Hrishikesh, A kid but our pathfinder for this VISAPUR fort.
