| We just had a very successful trek of naneghat last weekend and were in
no mood for another consecutive one. But some one suggested and everyone agreed at
once. This time we were biggest group for any trek so far. We were eight members
(Jignesh, Amol, Saket, Hagish, Ashok, sandy, Rahman, Akhilesh, pawas and me). We has decided
upon prabalgad but we had been so late to reach there, the time was already around
7 pm. So we thought of some different plan and eventually came up with shivneri.
We reached kalyan by 9 pm. We skipped some bus thinking that the next bus would
have some seats but till last bus the bus were up to their capacity. So we decided to take private taxi. After hard bargain we hired a three wheeler for
shivneri. The auto was so slow and under powered that it almost crawled the whole way. But that is the real fun part of the journey. We were`nt thought of
enjoying the auto ride so much, but we did. We were like sailing in the wind
in dark. When it entered the ghat, we often had to came out so that it can scale the climb. The whole auto journey was of about 5 hours. At early morning we were
right at the foothill of the fort. We were very dissapointed to see that there
is no trek, instead straight stairs directly takes one to the fort. Any way
historically we were visiting the most valuable fort of maratha history as this
was the birthplace of "Shivaji maharaj". The fort was very nicely built and well
preserved. The fort is on a lone hill over a large plateau. We stay there for some 4 hours and took direct bus for dadar in the evening.
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