Sihangad

Fort : Sinhagad (4320 ft above MSL)
Region : Pune
Grade : Easy

Finally had the time to go for this. Went to this fort numerous times but this time went with friend group.Its near to Pune and is around 34 km from my place. We started by bus from Nigdi around 6.00 am in the morning and went up to Swargate.

From Swargate we caught the Sinhagad bus and started off towards Sinhagad. We alighted at around 8.00am at the base village of Sinhagad and started to trek up. It was tiring as I had not done treks for sometime now.

We walked for around 1.5 hours before we finally reached the top near the door. There we had cool lemon juice and started towards the fort. The fort is a good one and had 2 doors near the entrance. From here you can see the doordarshan tower also on top there. Finally we went inside and had a look here and there.

We sat near a hotel up and had pithla-bhakri and it tasted like heaven.We also had bhaji and tea and then started off exploring the fort. We descended the steps towards the Kalyan Darwaza and sat there sometime enjoying the nature. Finally we went around and made a whole round of the fort and reached windpoint. The wind was blowing fiercely and we could feel ourselves been blown by the wind. The scenery here is too good..finally we started from here and saw the Rajaram Samadhi and then finally started down. While going down we descended in 45 mins and when down had a cup of tea at a small hotel and caught the bus to swargate. From swargate we went home by Nigdi bus... trek 7 accomplished