Tikona - My first one

Done this during Grads!

Tikona is a fort situated near PavanaNagar, Maval near Kamshet. The base village is Tikona Peth.
Height : 3580 ft (above MSL)
Region : Maval
Grade : Easy

This fort is not much known among people but its well worth a trip up there. This was my first trek n thus started my love for trekking. :)

Tikona essentially means triangle or pyramid. The shape of the fort is like a pyramid and looks quite a small fort from below.

We started at 7.00am by the Lonavala local from Chinchwad. We reached Kamshet at around 8.00am. Avinash (Khengare) and Deepak came from Lonavala and were already waiting for us. We took an ST bus from the Kamshet ST stand located just outside the station towards PawanaNagar.

Pawananagar is a small village near the famous Pawana Dam. The bus ride was of around 30 mins and we could see the huge Pawana Dam walls from the bus. The bus stopped at the village and we started our walk towards Tikona.The road was well in between green shrubs, trees and more. More or less was flat land then we started to climb a hill. Here the road started steepening and me as it was my first trek was huffing and puffing....

We got a glimpse of the fort from far and it looked like "hey thats too small and easy..eh? "
But the climb got even steeper now and i realized that it was not so easy !!

At one point Purvesh, Deepak and Saurabh tried some stunts. They went down a steep incline and said that we could continue they would join us. Later we heard that they had a hell of their time there because there was no foothold they had to climb over dried grass literally holding onto anything on hand and come up. Quite an adventurous bunch!

After 1.5 hours we reached the entrace of the fort. Though small the steps were too huge..one had to climb over the steps to climb higher...here the place was cool and we took some photos there. After some initial photo sessions and timepass we started exploring the fort. The fort was awesome to say and being my first I started exploring stuff. We went near a cool place where water had collected and refreshed ourselves.The water felt like nectar cooling our parched throats...we collected water in our bottles too.

We had a lunch session where everyone had brought quite a great amount of food and we had a great lunch. Then we explored the fort and went to the highest point. Sat down there and did some timepass.Then we decided to start going down now.

We descended down to Tikona Peth and again had a session of chiwda and asked locals about the bus to kamshet. We were informed there was none until 2 hours now. Reluctantly every1 agreed to walk towards kamshet...we did tp while walking...singing and pulling everyones legs. On route we saw the pavana backwaters and things. We sat at a place for rest. Suddenly we heard a bus coming our way. It was an ST and heading towards Kamshet. Wow....but the problem was again the adventurous bunch were behind busy exploring.We started shouting their names and in a flash all of them came running for the bus. All boarded the bus and started towards Kamshet....arrived at Kamshet took a local for Pune. Whew...first trek accomplished....:)