My Life.....: Harishchandragad

Harishchandragad is about 220Kms from Pune. The most beautiful thing about this place is the Konkan Kada (a concave cliff with a 1800m drop). Feroz, Rohit, Vijay and Myself left from Pune at around 8am on 3 bikes to Pachnai (the base village). The route that we had taken was Pune - Narayangaon - Sangamner - Akola - Rajur - Pachnai. The roads are pretty good till Sangamner and then it is all village roads for the rest of the journey. We had awesome lunch at Akola and also bought dinner. Reached Pachnai at 3pm and we hired a guide (Prakash) to take us to a cave on top where we could spend the night. We reached the cave by 7pm and found a pretty decent cave with a nice little pool of water inside and frogs playing in it. We had our dinner and started sleeping early we none of us had slept the previous day (because we all did night shifts and left immediately after our shift). Harishchandragad is known for Leopards and it was not safe for us to come out of our caves at night. So we were little (only we know how LITTLE :p) scared to come out of our caves. We just turned on the torch and left it near the entrance so that we will know if anything enters our cave. Rohit stayed awake almost all night with wierd imaginations running in his mind. We will never forget the way everyone was trying to scare one another with the Wild-Boar pranks. The night was really really thrilling. We came out of our caves with the torch and as there was too much fog, we could not see anything beyond 4 - 5 feet. There was no light at all. We slept pretty well and woke up in the morning, freshened up and went to Konkan Kada (just about 20 minutes away from our cave). Bad Luck as we could not see anything due to a lot of fog. But still the place was very good. Our Guide threw a empty bottle from the cliff and the bottle came flying back to him. This was due to the pressure of the wind. We captured this on tape. It was fun. We clicked some good photos and started our trek down to our bikes. We reached the village and started off at around 2pm. Went to Akola and had our lunch at 5pm and left for Pune. We wanted to cover the maximum distance before it got dark. We stopped just once at Narayangaon for a snack break and reached Pune by 9:30pm. We all met at Nasik Phata and bid good bye to one another and left for our homes. This was another good trip that we will never forget. Had a nice hot water bath and retired for the day.