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