Raigad Treking

I love travelling and exploring places. I love it if it is adventurous.I have not trekked lot of places, but wish to do so.
You cant enjoy alone, and moreover i was confident mom would love to come along,since she loves visiting different places. I told her about Raigad Fort. I had googled about this place before,so did not find it difficult to convince her for it.

Raigad fort is located in the Sahyadri mountain ranges and there are approximately 1400–1450 steps leading to the fort. Listening to this, my mom declined coming.
She does not fear climbing, she's the most active @home,but she knew the consequence, so refused coming.

But,there is rope-way that,exists to reach the top of the fort. I told her all my plans, and finally she agreed....(my sweet mom)
We left at 5.30am on Sat from Swargate busstand & reached Mahad vilage at 9.30am.
Raigad lies near Paachad village which is 20 kms away from Mahad.
For me,it was easy,wished i had my car/Activa, would have reached there in 1 hr, but we realized that there are very few vehicles that go there and the frequency is very less. So,I and mom had breakfast and waited for a jeep till 11.30am.
Finally,we met a familt from Ratnagiri, we reached the fort.
We took one - way Ropeway ticket & decided we would climb down the stairs for my satisfaction.




The Sahyadri mountains were lovely & pleasant.We reached the top just in 5 mins....
This fort was the capital of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
I and mom put our Caps & went around the fort exploring different places in the fort.
The fort was destroyed,but well maintained.





There was a Shiv temple which Shivaji and his mother would visit.
There only there is a statue of Shivaji's most favourite dog.
We had lunch there with the Ratnagiri fly, it was very sunny, but was enjoying it a lot.


Behind the temple is Shivaji's Samadhi.



There is a big ground called Bazaar peth, where articles were sold by sellers. And there is Shivaji's big statue with his throne.





The lovely and favorite place was the Tak Tok top.
Most Dangerous, very narrow,as you can the pic, but lovely Experience.
This was the place from where Shivaji would throw his enemies down from tops to death.
We could see the entire fort view from here.
We could see the steps, which we had climb down....1500 steps.





We clicked some pics ,had some local food there and were all set to climb the 1500 steps.Even the family were going to climb down with us, which made it more exciting.



It was very tiresome, but was trilling, mom is really great ,even at this age she was so active & supportive, did not complain at all.
Truely , loving, and great MOM.



The trip wouldn't have been so exciting without her.
We reached Pune back at 11pm. We were very tired, just had some food and hit the bed.
Off course next day, our bodies were aching ,but were satisfied of having a lovely trip, just me and mom together.....(An unforgettable trip)
And not to forget the Ratnagiri family,we got attached to them too...even they would always be with us in our memories an in our albums.




Thanks mom !! i cant think of any other words for her.

Waiting for more such exciting trips

Live the present

I was wondering if we were ever in tension free phase of our life, the only word that struck me is School days.

Its midnight and no wonder why, I am missing my school days a lot. All those good memories are flashing in front of my eyes and i am smiling, remembering of all those days.

I am fortunate to have experienced these days. I think every person who has gone to school would always cherish them as something special in their life.

Today, when I think of those days, I believe I took my schooling a bit seriously and could not enjoy it as I wish I could do it if given a change to go back.

Why is it, that we make our life so complicated, why is there gradings, comparisons, etc which restricts us and don’t let us live life the way we do. Life’s become a race; everyone wants to be ahead of the others, not thinking as to, where they want to head for.

We have forgotten to live the present, keep thinking, planning and worrying about our future.

I believe school days are the most important phase for every person.

We can enjoy things and learn maximum during this age only, if given a proper guidance.

I don’t say this because, I did not enjoy those days, but wish could make it better.

We have the best of our friends during that time, true friends, who would care for us forever. Friendships were not made for selfish reasons and which would last only for that period. I have very few, but true school friends, caring and loving once.

I believe as we grow, we tend to make friends for our need only….:-(

For that reason, I think we should make books, some creativity, etc, our friends, atleast they will be with us for ever and wont hurt our believes.

A few days back, we all school friends met and had lots of fun remembering those days.

I wish we have such meets ever. Or I wish I could go back to school …….back in that phase.

But, there’s lots of life and fulfillment ahead, just can’t stop/pause, thinking of those days………..need to go on.

I believe, Life is itself a school, the work, we do is our teachers, just keep learning and enjoy it to the fullest, and then I won’t miss those school days. Don’t complicate life, Accept things the way they come, don’t crib about its occurrence, instead accept it, as a new opportunity and make the best out of it.

As someone has said it correctly: Don’t fear pressure, for pressure is what turns rough stones into diamonds.

Good times, become good memories. Bad times, become good lessons.

Heal the past, Live the present and Dream the future.