Rajmachi is a place situated on Sahyadri Mountain in Maharastra.
Route –
1. Lonavala →Rajmachi [16K.M.] simple road.
2. Karjat →Kondivada [15K.M.] →Kondana [2K.M.] →Rajmachi [14K.M. Hill climbing]
March 03,2016 Saturday
I started my journey directly from office. At CBD station ,I met Ashish who brought his younger brother Bhupesh along. We started to laugh cause of cracking some jokes. {Me & Ashish whenever we are together we usually laugh on silly points} From here we moved to Panvel vai local ,according to plan ,we met Rohit there and then moved to Bus stop at 9:15P.M. there was a last bus of the day for Karjat . We run and caught the bus – took 4tickets for Karjat and in the bus I created a humor environment by singing songs in rough voice ,jokes and making fun of Rohit so much on every point and Ashish support me fully. He said –“aaj mood mi h saale tu”. We alight at Karjat and asked the route for Kondivada to some boys standing on Ice cream stale ,but they were drunk and behaved so arrogant but we handled them politely –they also offered us for free FALUDA. ,and told a meaningless route .I said –OK and didn’t follow.
{It is a journey – we experience (unwanted experience) lots of unexpected things and people ,so be prepared always}
We decided to stay at railway station for night ,we fed up and pursuit to sleep , but – that was
ME & ASHISH ,who laughed over there so much till our tummy started to pain and pain in jaw cause of laughing .I just sleep for 2hour ,Ashish didn’t and Rohit & Bhupesh for 3-4hour.I searched the route on Google then waked them right on 5A.M. ,we got fresh ,charged our mobile phones ,charged overselves with light breakfast and moved with our back bags. We caught bus from ‘Ram pul’ for Kondivada which droped us at ‘Aema village’ right from there our trek was started in morning 6:07A.M. After walking 2-3K.M. for Kondivada ,we took some more breakfast and also carry some food for trekking ,from here we moved to Kondana and started to climb – up. After a small distance we found a cave structure name Kondana Caves ,this was not expected in plan & one of the glorious architecture work. We clicked a lot here ,eat food and dance ,tried to make video on this topic.
After some rest ,we filled our water bottle full again [water stored in cave ,this looks so dusty but in actual it is clear as normal and more testy N chilled] We were climbing our breath ,blood and heartbeat running so fast that I can hear it. Our body sweating so badly but on the height – waves of wind gives us relax from that heat.
My tired body and friends suggest me to just stop there ,but I didin’t .
[I committed to myself I will not stop unless I reach top of this mountain] I relaxed but didn’t stop.
Rohit and Bhupesh asked me again n again ‘Bhai !or kitna reh gya’. I replied – ‘just little more – always’.
We relaxed to make breath to make breath as energy ,took water in mouth and again my eye settle on top of the hill. We just have 4packets of biscuit [Parle - G ,G mene Genius] but sufficient water. We reached a small village before top name Rajmachi. Here ,we meet another tourist camed from Lonaval route. Ashish reaction ‘aacha! Or bhi log h yha’. This village totally depend on tourism business.
They provide house to stay ,food ,guidance for trekking and for us which we need at that time they provide water. They told – there is two fort one is Manrajan another is Shrivardhan and 2nd one is much higher. Its clear to me – we have to go on top. We moved after 30minutes carrying more water in bags .
From here it is just 1hour distance. On the route there is some kind of old houses and their room are natural cold ,tourist uses them for stay for free
& at the time 2:09P.M. after climbing approx 15K.M. hard route {Aakash & Aashish} we shouted with a flag on pick of this mountain.
That was the feeling we are unable to describe in words – just shout loudly as we could and more.
Usually I get afraid of height but this time not. I said ‘Yara – Mja aa gya this is the view’.
We hoist a flag over there which is a symbol of one of the greatest worrier of India “Shiva ji – the king”.
We clicked lots of picks of eachother and of that awesome nature. I said –
‘Ashish – is view k liye hum mer rhe the’
And shout again
{ Actually --kabhi *kabhi jo mja chilane mi hota h na ,wo bolne ya kisi aur chij mi nhi hota }
We also found water over there –washed our hand ,face ,legs – this gives us too relax. We moved down then reached to nearest village bathed in pond which we see from height and start journey downward. Me and Ashish also enjoy the run game to caught eachother so fast on rough route ,rocks ,branches of trees ,we feel like a hero of a movie running in forest with a strong drum beat in mind.
On 4;30P.M. We were on plain path in Mundakda village and found a beautiful river. We took off our bags ,shoes ,goggles ,t-shirt and run into water ,drink water directly from mouth like – Animal .
We relaxed there for approx 2hour . We moved and that was 7:30P.M. We missed last bus of the day from Kondivada to Karjat. I decided to move by walking [distance 9K.M.] and here we moved. After 3K.M. we found a auto which dropped us to Karjat ,took train of Thane and on 12 o’clock ,I was on my bed and Smiling ☻
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