Best sleet treks: Monsoon from a roof of Maharashtra!

Enter a forest

Pic Courtesy/ Ashwin Khadtare

Walk by Andharban forest
July 3: Trailing by a timberland of Andharban nearby Pimpri encampment in Pune, brings to mind a ‘lovely, dim and low woods’ that Robert Frost spoke of. The engaging partial of this 13km prolonged trek is a thick timberland cover over your head. Andharban, by a name means a dim unenlightened forest, and a vital apportionment of this trek — conducted by SG Trekkers — involves walking by this denseness. The day-long mount starts nearby Pimpri dam in extended daylight, though as we step in, it gets darker, adding to a sorcery that this place has to offer. The trek concludes during a Bhira dam, that is a start of a Kundalika river, famous for white H2O tide rafting. You can ride to Pune around a Mumbai Highway. There are trains during unchanging intervals from CST and Dadar Central station.
Meeting point: Bank of Maharashtra, Lokmangal, Shivaji Nagar during 5.45 AM
COST: Rs 650
TO BOOK: www.sgtrekkers.in

Take your kids along

Join kids on a inlet trek to Karnala
July 9: If we suspicion children can’t join in a movement fun, Altitude Quest Adventure’s kids special trek to Karnala will infer we wrong. The two-and-a-half hour trek that starts during a Karnala bird sanctuary, winds by a forest, before heading we to Karnala Fort in Panvel. Parents will be authorised to accompany a immature trekkers by a trail. The trek is open to kids above six.
WHERE: Bus starts from Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivali during 5 AM
COST: Rs 1,650
CALL: 9833722236

Brave Bhimashankar’s wildlife trail   
July 23 – 25: Explore Raigad’s Bhimashankar wildlife refuge in a two-day prolonged trek around a Ganesh Ghat route. The refuge is tiny (only about 100 block km), though is home to a far-reaching accumulation of animals, including a rarely involved Indian hulk squirrel — Shekharu. Organised by Altitude Quest Adventure, a moderate-level trek is open to all above a age of 10.
WHERE: Bus starts from Sanjay Gandhi National Park during 5 AM
COST: Rs 3,500
CALL: 9833722236

Take a prolonged break

Discover a timberland of Amboli  
July 29 – 31: Join associate inlet enthusiasts on a three-day wildlife stay in Amboli, a mountain hire in a Sahyadri Hills. Nestled in a heart of a Western Ghats, 490 km from Mumbai, Amboli is home to pretentious creatures, including a Malabar drifting frog, a Malabar immature array viper, and vine snake.

The three-day camp, organized by Amazing Amboli, includes a night wildlife trail, a three-hour trek in a thick forests of a ghats, a revisit to a ancient Hiranykeshi Temple, as good as a workshop, where we learn about Herpetofauna and birding from internal guides, wildlife experts and photographers. It takes around 7 hours to strech Amboli from Mumbai, and a cost of a ride includes ride and accommodation.
Meeting point: Sawantwadi Road Railway Station, Niravade during 10 AM
COST: Rs 4,000 per conduct
TO BOOK: www.amazingamboli.org

Get high

Stand on a roof of Maharashtra
Aug 6: Head out on a day-long trek to Mt Kalsubai, that during 1,6464 metres above sea level, is a tip indicate in Maharashtra. Organised by Dark Green Adventures, a trek can be wrapped within 4 hours, and does not need any well-developed climbing skills. At a summit, one can also revisit a tiny church of Devi Kalsubai. Being a highest, a rise also offers a monumental perspective of a region. To a north, forts such as Harihargad, Ramsej, Brahmagiri, Ghargad, Tringalwadi, Anjaneri are visible, while to a south, we can mark Pabhargad, Harishchandragad and Ghanchkkar.
Meeting point: Pritam Hotel, 20 Dharamputra, Pritam Estate, Dadar (East) during 10.45 PM
COST: Rs1,000
CALL: 9820468748

See Mumbai from a tip point
Ongoing: Enjoy a relaxing trek to a tip indicate in Mumbai, during a Sanjay Gandhi National Park. The trek starts once we strech a Kanheri caves. From here, we take one of a limited trails. The initial 15 mins of a mount offers we a overwhelming perspective of a whole western partial of a inhabitant park. Once we conduct right to a top, we get to declare scintillating views of a Tulsi, Powai and Vihar lakes. If we are lucky, we can also mark deer and leopard pugmarks.
Meeting point: Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivali during 7.20 AM
COST: Rs 1,150
TO BOOK: www.thrillophilia.com

Be a H2O baby

Get crazy on Kundalika river
Tighten your shorts, rehearse your prayers and get prepared to float nature’s rollercoaster in this once-in-a-lifetime white H2O rafting knowledge on a Kunadlika River in Kolad. The 12-km widen — best gifted in a rains — is installed with crazy watercourse that will play we screaming all a way. You will need to arrange for your ride to a Kolad campsite. Children next 14 will be supposed during a instructor’s discretion. Kolad encampment (117 km from Mumbai) can be reached around National Highway No 17. From a village, it takes around 45 mins to a rafting start point.
WHERE: Kolad, Village Saje, Raigad District
COST: Rs 1,299 (weekends) and Rs 899 (weekdays)
CALL: 30770185

Abseil down waterfalls
There’s no improved deteriorate to suffer a disturb and journey of rapids rappelling than a monsoons. Imagine scouring down a fast streaming rapids with sleazy rocks and immature foliage all around you. Rapelling, also famous as abseiling, starts during a tip of a fall, where we mount over a edge, and hold by a beam above, solemnly reduce yourself down to terra firma, regulating a rope. The categorical apparatus used is high peculiarity ropes, descender, chair strap along with gloves and helmet for safety. In Maharashtra, waterfalls in Dodhani, Panshet, and Bhivpuri offer some of a best practice for journey enthusiasts.

Bhivpuri Waterfall
WHEN: Jul 2, 3
WHERE: Meet during Bhivpuri Railway Station during 7.35 AM
COST: Rs 850
CALL:9867697306

Dodhani Waterfall
WHEN: Jul 10
WHERE: Meet during height 4 of Panvel Station during 7.30 AM
COST: Rs 1,200
TO BOOK: mumbaitravellers@gmail.com

Panshet Waterfall
WHEN: Jul 20, 21, 6 AM
WHERE: Panshet Village,  Kuravati, Velhe, Pune
COST: Rs 1,045
TO BOOK: in.bookmyshow.com

Take it easy

Go on a tip picnic
Ongoing, 9.30 AM to 4.30 PM: Spend a day in your really possess fascinated timberland with rolling meadows, streams and a pool during a tip cruise spot, where we can suffer peculiarity time with your friends and family. The Secret Picnic organisation will accommodate we usually off a Western Express Highway during Nalasopara and accompany we to a parking spot. From here we trek for 15 mins by a forest, compartment we strech a spot. This cruise spot, that is a breakwater for butterflies, is a photographer’s dream. There is also a tide for we to dash in, or go kayaking.
WHERE: Nalasopara
COST: Rs 7,199 for a organisation of four
CALL: 30770185

Move it

Enjoy a marathon in Durshet forest
Aug 7, 6 AM TO 10 AM: Sometimes, a marathon isn’t usually another run opposite time. The Durshet Forest Marathon is one such distilled mix. The run amidst a monumental timberland vicinity comes with a possess set of challenges. The initial proviso involves using by a sweeping of paddy fields. Tough terrains follow, with a lane churned with high hills. The rains usually make using by a widen trickier. Durshet is dual hours from Mumbai (over 75 kms), and can be reached around a Mumbai Highway.
WHERE: Meet during Durshet Forest Lodge, Khopali-Pali Road, Khalapur, Durshet
COST: Half marathon (Rs 1,050) and Full marathon (Rs 1,150)
TO REGISTER: www.townscript.com

Ride to Kondana caves
July 10: Head out on a day-long cycling outing to Kondana caves with Mumbai Travellers. The cycling outing will start during Karjat station, and hindrance during Kondiwade village, that is a bottom of a Rajmachi rise in a Sahyadris. You park your cycles here, and leave for a 45-minute trek to a top. During a monsoons, Rajmachi offers monumental views of waterfalls. En-route, we will get to try a Kondana caves, dating behind to initial century BC, and suffer a tasty lunch during a villager’s house, before roving behind to Karjat. You will be supposing
cycles during assembly point.
WHERE: Meet during Karjat Station during 7.30 AM
COST: Rs 1,800
TO REGISTER: mumbaitravellers@gmail.com

Spend a night out

Camp during Malshej Ghat
Aug 27 – 28: Camping during Malshej Ghat during a monsoon is a opposite knowledge altogether. The plateau, that is famous for a cloudy mountain tops and ice cold cascades, is in a primary during a season, growing furious flowers that usually supplement colour to a sensuous immature background. Join a Bombay Natural History Society on an overnight camp, and try a timberland belt, that is famous to be home to a Indian Giant Squirrel, Whistling Thrush, and opposite kinds of moths.
WHERE: Bus will leave from Empress Mahal, Khodadad Circle, Dadar TT during 6.30 AM
COST: Rs 7,400
CALL: 22871202

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