River rafting at Kolad..Kundalika

date :  25th July 2010

This place was on the mind for quite sometime.. but dint get like minded people to do it..
finally my office team comes to the rescue and we decide a weekend to be spent at Kundalika..

Kolad is just 150kms from Mumbai on the NH17. Take a left at the board written Mulshi 78kms and you are on right track..
There are a lot of farm houses which can accommodate as well as make the arrangements for river rafting..
We had made prior booking through junglelore.net.
We had booked for a stay as well..
Accommodation was provided at Pooja Farm House which is around 8kms from the rafting site..



some clicks of the farm house..

Touching Grandfathers feet...

date : 26th June 2010

who: Tejas, Samit, Sudhir and Me.

where : Ajacha dongar also called Aja-parvat or Ajoba which means Grandfather..

how : Take the NH3 from mumbai towards Nashik.. Ride till Shahpur and then take the diversion to Dolkhamb.. The base village for the trek is Dehne which is another 10 kms from dolkhamb..

road conditions : awesome to good.. even the internal roads from shahapur to dolkhamb are in great condition.. the rains has still not slashed away the tar.. only a few kms at the end were not in good shape.. else it was a bliss..

what did i do : just ride.. we dint trek as it was blazing hot.. monsoon was actually MonSun with no sign of rains in sight.. We reached the base of the mountain at around 1.00pm with all the stops for photos and eating and timepaas in between..
stayed there till around 1.45 and started our way back to a river that we had seen in between.. Had a relaxing time in the river for over an hour and a half..
Went to check the Ghatghar project.. but we dint have prior permission had to suffice by just looking at the dam wall in the distance..

Reached back home at 7.00pm with 270kms on the odo..

Some memories to cherish ::

  

Trek to Sudhagad fort

Date : June 20 2010

Destination :  Sudhagad fort

Who : Me, Deepak, Salil, Sanket, Arnod, Arjun and Sankets 2 friends (Renaldo & Ketan)

Me, Arjun and Doc were on bike and the rest were in sankets car.. Deepak was our trek guide..

About the fort :

Sudhagad fort lies very close to Pali (one of the Ashtavinayak devasthan). Its about 2 hours drive from mumbai. 

Base village Paachapur i suppose marks the start of the trek. Its about 20 kms from Pali.

The roads are nice and clean with the internal roads being built under the Pradhan mantri gram sadak yojana..

Trek : Its easy for starters like me who are arm chair keyboard warriors.. The actual trek is said to be of not more than 1.5 hours but i took my own time .. nearly 2 hours from the base to the top..

Group ride to Amby valley and Lavasa

Date: June 06, 2010...


Me, Deepak&friend, Sanket&cousin, Kanti bhai, Glen, Rohan&friend did a short ride this sunday to Amby valley..
Then took teh interior roads from Amby valley till Mulshi..
From mulshi took the road towards Pirangut and finally reached Lavasa..

In search of Krishnabai mandir.. Wai..

This was a ride i did this saturday (15th May 2010) for personal reasons.. thats the reason did not post this in the meets section.
Asked a good friend of mine who readily agreed.
So now we were two riders..
Black Avenger 200 - Tejas
Black P220 - Vaibhav