Pachmarhi

We planned a bike trip to Pachmarhi For Thursday to Sunday.

If you are planning from Bhopal, you can reach here in ~4 hours  less or more depending upon number of stops you take. We took a break at MP tourism restaurant at Pipariya. There's one more available after Pipariya which also looked good.

The roads are good in between, and jungle is on both side, loved the  roads amid nature.

We have already booked a hotel online for 1 day it through GoIbibo costed around 800. For weekdays charges are low but for weekend charges are very high.

We checked in and explored around the market a little. As it was a working day we did our office work in hotel, had lunch.

In evening we went to Rajgiri for seeing sunset.

It's a garden on a good height from where we can see the range of mountains. Some points like Handi khoh, Chuaragarh fort and other are visible from there.

It was not much crowdy due to weekday, so we explored freely, captured photos and came back.

Then we enquired around 10-12 for hotel for next day, the cost is now higher as its for Friday. We finalized a hotel for 1500, had dinner and came back.

Day 2 - Friday

As it was weekday we had to start working around 11.  We woke up had breakfast, joined a meeting and went out.

We visited Handi Khoh, Priyadarshini and Mahadev Mandir(plus Gupt Mahadev)

Handi khoh have Average view

Then Priyadarshini also is good and Chauragarh temple is visible from there as well.

Then we went to Mahadev Mandir which is inside a cave. Cave is not long or risky temple is good and peaceful.

This is the place where Vishnu ji made Bhasmasur to put his hand on his own head which caused  the end of Bhasmasur.

The place itself is peaceful, and pretty.

Some 200 m from there on the lower side, Gupt Mahadev temple is there.

There is very narrow path of few 20 steps inside and not much space is there m we need to go one sided 6-8 peoples are allowed to enter at a time as entry exit is from same narrow path.

After that we came back for workin.

Hinjewadi Trek - Phase 2 to Phase 3

This post is about our Trek done on 16th July 22 from Hinjewadi Phase 2 to Hinjewadi Phase 3 mountains.

The trek is not much tough and can be considered as easy.  

Trek starts from the trail near  Quadron Business Park till point Behind Sangria society. There are few variations you can take in between. Most usual one is from Quadron Business Park to Marunji Hill Top and then from there to Phase 3.

Starting point near
Quadron Embassy Park

We started around 11 AM, took local bus from Hinjewadi Phase 3 to Quadron. By 11.30 We started ascending which is somewhat easy initially, though due to rain there was a lot of mud.

This trail goes up and connect with the main trail(which goes from Marunji Hill Top to Phase 3). Once you find the trail just turn to right for Marunji Hill top to enjoy the view. You can see Kasarisai Dam in the West Side and  Hinjewadi Phase to East side. 

After some time, we left for the main trail to Hinjwadi Phase 3. Took a halt at a view point where we could see Kasarsai Dam.

On trekking more we got to see fog, clicked few pictures and left as we still have to trek around the Phase 3 part. 

Around 4.30PM we reached on the hill behind Sangria. There are 2 options from there, either climb another hill and descend to "Sri Bapuji Bua Mandir Maan Mandir" or simply descend and walk till main road. We decided to descend and walk.

After reaching to the Hinjewadi Pirangute Road we walked back to our locations.

Plus Valley

Plus Valley Trek

Plus Valley is situated in Tamhini ghat and is around 60-65 km from Pune.
Its named as Plus valley as from the top view we can see the valley has a kind of plus. Its a descending first and then ascending trek with hard endurance.

 

We started early from Pune so that we could  start ascending before the sun reaches us as it make harder to ascend. Around 4AM we left from Hinjewadi and by 6AM we reached the starting point however, it was still dark so we waited there only. Small Sitting area is available there.

If you are travelling from Pune and plan to have meal in middle, you can visit the restaurant Hotel river place. Breakfast and lunch  is available there, it can accommodate around 80+ persons in once. Another option is Sai resorts which is little better in terms of ambience and service

Around 7AM it was clear visibility and we started to descend. Its basically Scree part in begining then there comes rocky part and in then mix of rocks and jungle area. Around 8AM we reached the main point also know as infinity point . We had some breakfast there which we did take with us and captured pics. Once our photography sessions ended around 9 AM we started to ascend.

As easy as the descend part was as hard it is to ascend. It took me 6 breaks in between to finish it
Around 10.15 we reached the top though and left for Pune.

Though the trell is clear still if you feel to confirm you can refer to these orange ribbons which fellow trekkers have tied there. The water of plus valley is then falls to Devkund waterfall.
  

On the other side of plus valley you can see the top where Andharban Trek's trail passes. The kundalika valley and plus valley can also be seen from this location, however the best view of Kundalika Valley you can see when Doing Andharban Trek.