Visapur

Fort Visapur
Height : 4000ft (above MSL)
Region : Maval
Grade: Medium

Visapur is a fort near Malavli and is close to Lohagad fort. Though not much to see there but worth the climb.

Me , Mehul and Rahul started from Chinchwad at 7.00am towards Malavli. We met Hemant , Sanjay at Akurdi and Indrajeet, Vikram and some friends at Talegaon. Arriving at Malavli we started our walk. The same way towards Lohgad. At one point there is a bifurcation where 1 road leads to lohgad and the other towards Visapur where one should start the climb. We started on this route.

Mehul was enthusiastic as it was his first time. We actually lost our way to find the climbing route and were helped by a villager who showed us the route amidst bushes which was hard to spot. Thanking him we started on. Here there are no steps but huge rocks on which 1 has to climb. There is shade all along but its quite excruciating climb and everyone was growing tired.Finally we reached after 1.25 hrs of climbing.

The Visapur top is too big and one has to walk round it to have a good view. We went to the other side and walked near to the walls where we could see the route from where we had come. We had a look at the balekilla and it was awesome.

Looking for some shade we started our lunch after settling down and removing our lunch boxes...had a nice wholesome lunch and walked round the fort enjoying the nature and taking photos.

Finally we started descending down. It was another nightmare over the boulders hurting the legs...finally we came down in about 45 minutes and got on the main road. Mehul's condition was worse and he could not even walk. :)

We decided we would go up to see the Bhaje caves.The route we took was over a dried waterfall.It was pure rock climb and we did it. Mehul had to be escorted up with help from Indrajeet and others as he was not even in a position to walk. We sat in the cool caves at Bhaje and had one more lunch session where we ate chiwda and other stuff and had an afternoon siesta.

Finally we came down the steps from Bhaje and walked to the station and took a train to Pune. Visapur done : 3rd Trek!!