Torna to Rajgad Trek

We reached Velhe at around 8.30 AM. There we have  breakfast at a restaurant. It’s a good restaurant for trekkers It has capacity for 50+ people at once. Offers multiple eatables. We left for trek at around 9:20AM from base.

There is a road in parallel by which you can reach at some height using vehicles, we took another route having small trail passing from some fields.

At some height we took a small break beneath a tree . Wind was really cool and good there.

After that we went up and found a place where we could stand, at the other side a water body was visible.

We were like in middle from top and bottom.

At round 11:30 we found a little water trail, there is some water from rocks which is too cold! Its not drinkable but it really chilled for temp.

Then we start to climb, the path was normally rocks but there are some railings to the top which are lifesaver and helps to climb easily.

We reached at “Bini gate” at around 11:40 AM. We had lime water there (locals selling) 

sat at the fort and clicked a few pictures, wind was really good. (and point location)

Then from there is a watch tower “Jhunjar Machi” beside the main wall(it’s a little risky as we have to do like mountaineering without safety).

We reached at Jhunjar Machi at 1245 pm clicked few pictures and came back to fort wall.

We energized ourselves and left for Rajgad from KonkadDarwaja at (1320 hrs) 

We have to take this path to reach to Rajgadh fort expected time was 6 hrs.The path have 20+ small ups downs there.

The path is mix of small jungle types small trees, open route , long grass and all.

As we were about to reach Rajgadh we found road (Velhe road ) at 1634 hrs.

We started to ascend again. The last part was really tough, its full of steep climb  and much risky. I could not click pictures there as its not safe to do so and was tired also. 

It was about to be sunset soon, we did not wanted to miss that so we climbed up fast and at entrance near fort wall we stopped and waitedfor sunset. 

We had some eat and clicked few pictures, sun set around 1745 hrs.  All the tiredness and efforts we put seemed worthy when we saw the sunset. It was really beautiful.

It was dark now, but we had to walk around 1 hr more to reach Padmavati temple where we planned to stay for the night. We had torches and lights so we walked and reached around in 50 minutes.

We sat down there for a while.

In the temple there is sufficient space to accommodate many peoples. There were many groups of trekkers and others. There are also many local peoples available there, they cook food for dinner. 
sell water bottles breakfast tea lime juice and many ore things are available there.

We asked “Bhau" to cook food for us and waited there. They cooked the local “Bhakhri”  which was really good.

There were also multiple Tamboos there, not sure if the trekkers bring their own or its available with locals.

We had dinner and we went to sleep. Peoples also slept outside the temple, but it didn’t seem safe to us as there were small insects , snakes along with crabs there. 

We planned to wake early to enjoy Sunrise.

Day 2 starts

We woke up at around 0530 hrs and decided to walk to “Suvela Machi” to enjoy the sunrise. Walked for 1-2 kms and we waited at a place and enjoyed for sunrise clicked few pics. (and point location)

It was really fascinating.

Then we walked towards Suvela Machi . Reached and clicked pics. The wind was too hard,  seems really risky to stand. 

My ear start to ache so I put on cap and jacket. At around 0740 hrs we started to walk back to Padmavati to have breakfast and tea.

In between there is rock hole we climbed up clicked few(and point location) And by 0840hrs we were back at Padmavati temple. Had really tasty Poha and Tea.

We were full and energetic. We left our bags with Ganesh Bhau(The local peoples are really trustful and good, we even had dinner yesterday and they told that we can pay in the morniing when we will leave. They charge a little more but that’s justifiable as they do a lot of efforts to bring all these things so high)

At 0920 hrs we left for Baale killa which is the main fort (clicked pic of the board (and point location)) At 950 hrs we were at top and clicked pic 

The path to the top again was lot risky and hence did not cliked pics for the same.

At 1005 hrs we decided to walk down. At around 1040 we reached Padmavati temple, packed our bags, paid Ganesh Bhau for lunch and all(was a long bill though) and started to walk down.

At 1100 hrs we reached at "Chor Darwaja" (exist gate from Rajgadh) and continued to walk down.

At around 1230 hrs we reached at the base from where trek trail starts from Rajgadh. And headed back to Pune.

You can check out my Trell post for the same.

https://trell.co/trail/torna-to-rajgadh-trek-2days-a411a68e6ee8