Rainy Trek - Lohgad Fort

Its 2014 June.. Monsoon drizzled in most of cities and our planning for monsoon trips, treks are going on… most of whats up group names are changing to picnic points, rainy photos…

I am here to introduce you one of fascinating and relaxing trekking point “Lohgad Fort”

Lohagad fort is near Pune. Lohagad makes an ideal trekking destination for trekkers from Pune and Mumbai because of its accesibility, ease of the trek and lush green surroundings. Lohagad at 3400 ft is a wide spread fort. There are 4 doors to Lohagad from the nearby village Lohagadwadi. Malawli is the nearest railway station from Lohagad.

There are two ways we can plan Lohgad fort trek one is shorter way, if you have your own vehicle then you can directly go at the bottom of the fort and start from there and explore fort. 

There is one more fort just 1km apart is Visapur fort, this seems to be tough for trekking than Lohgad, Visapur is more in heigh than lohgad. we heard story  from local villegers that mughals used Visapur fort to attacked lohgad fort with cannons and forced Marathas to leave fort.

And second is longer way which starts at BHAJE caves and then you have to cross a whole mountain to reach at Lohgad fort, in this journey you can enjoy waterfalls and narrow way trekking with greenery & scenery at its best..!

Bhaje caves, which is near to Lohgad/Visapur Fort is buddist caves there is nominal fees you have to pay to enter in caves because Bhaje caves ae protected as a National Monument by archeological survey of india.

If you are planning your trek by public transport then you can board train towards pune and leave at Malavali station next to Lonavala. Then walk towards pune side and ask local villagers or at shops to bhaje gaon.

Bhaje/Carla Caves

Lohgad for is wide and each place on fort has its significance. During rainy season fog at top of fort is dense so you have to careful and walk along with group.

There is one KABAR at fort too.. 

You can get drinking water at fort near temple, this fort user by Shivaji Maharaj to keep treasury. This is wide spread fort so you can have beautiful view from top at bottom of fort many shops who can offer you a lunch so plan accordingly and tell them in advance so that they will prepare for you while you are roaming on fort.

Fort in and around

KABAR

This is must visit destination near Mumbai and pune..!

For being Relax, Energized and Enjoy..!!

Have a great Trek..!

Thank You

Sulekh Yashwantrao

My king banned in Europe.

European Union bans Indian mangoes, vegetables due to concerns over pests

The European Union’s Standing Committee on Plant Health decided to impose a ban on Indian mangoes and some vegetables from May due to concerns over the presence of pests and insects in consignments arriving from India

It was imposed in March after fruit flies were found in 207 shipments in 2013, leading to fears that the non-native species could contaminate European crops.

The Times of India poked fun at the ruling last week, saying: "Those jittery Europeans have taken fright at some fruit flies in our mango exports, flies which they fear will wreak havoc on their tomatoes and cucumbers”

Due to this it effects most in market and alphanso prices slashed down, a box of four dozen mangoes which cost Rs 5000/- now became Rs 1000/-

If we bargain in market for a dozen mangoes we can get range of 50/- to 500/- which makes lots of loss of most of Mango Exporters. Due to early rain in May and rise in temperature most of mango consignments were rotten and become defective.

We hope at least next year my king will get more prestige in World.

Diva Sawantwadi Passenger Accident - 2014

When I heard news, DERAILMENT OF 50106 UP SAWANTWADI – DIVA PASSENGER TRAIN BETWEEN SAVARDA – KAMATHE STATION NEAR CHIPLUN, I stunned…!!

Till now I can prefer and faith only one transport to go to my konkan as rail routes but after this news many of us got shocked. This is one of most frightening mishap happen in Konkani belt.

Diva Passenger Train coming towards Mumbai, first 3 Coaches  of the train derailed between Savarda & Kamathe Station atleast 19 passengers were killed and more than 100 injured when the engine and coaches of a passenger train derailed.

As we all know Diva passenger is one of crowded train on this route, so we can imagine the situation at the time of mishap happened.

For rescue operation which happened we must thanks to local villagers who came forward and help passengers, police officers, railway rescue workers and co- passengers.

The Railway Officers ordered an inquiry and Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge announced of Rs 2 lakh for the relatives of those killed in the accident, Rs 50,000 for the grievously injured and Rs 10,000 for those with minor injuries.

We heard many of stories in next day in news paper and feel condolence for those who lost their lives, but this is not enough have we thought how this happened? Some says this is because of over speed of railway engine, some says there was a crack on track and railway derailed because of this, some says because of heat rail track got cracked and derail happened.

Residents of nearby villages were the first to reach the spot, followed by fire brigade and railway officers. Injured were admitted to Roha, Nagothane, Panvel and Mumbai hospitals. Most of uninjured passengers walk down the track to reach next station. Konkan Railway remain stopped for about a day during that time railway arranged extra ST buses for convenience of passengers in konkan.

We can only pray that such incidences must not happened in future anywhere and be alert while travelling.

Be Vigilant Be Safe!!

Regards

Sulekh Yashwantrao