The Sinhgad - Nearby get away to Pune

Fort - Sinhgad entry gate

Route: Pune - Sinhgad Road - > Waraje -> Khadakwasala -> Sinhgad Fort -> Khadakwasala -> Waraje -> Sinhgad Road - Pune

Travel Distance: Approximate 30km

Travel Time: Sunday, 6am – 11am

Best Period to Visit: Monsoon season

This is well known fact that people have no importance the things they have nearby. It applied to me as well. Wen I was in Mumbai, I travel to Pune and visited this marvelous fort in 2011. However, now I am in Pune for almost last four years but miss the visit to famous fort in close vicinity of my residence in Pune.

Journey:

Always keep in mind that, this place has crowded weekend, hence I planned my journey early in the morning. A sport shoes with no backpack is more than enough to have round trip to the fort. 

Khadakwasala Backwater

I kick off the bike and traveled through Sinhgad road via Khadkwasala water dam to reach Sinhgad fort around 7am. Before entering to ghat to Sinhgad, you have to pay Rs. 10/- as entry fee for bike. This fee contributed towards forest conservation initiative by government. I found few cars and bikes in parking area indicating that people started arriving at the fort. 

Reaching Sinhgad Fort:

When I parked my bike, I see valley of green forest all around the fort with small mountains surrounding complete fort. All the way showing geographical importance of fort in the history and why every empire tried to conquer this fort. Read more about Battles at Sinhgad. 

Snake Centers at Sinhgad Fort

Starting from parking place till the first gate (Pune Darawaja) of fort, you can witness mouth-watering kairy (mango slice), boiled groundnuts, onion pakoda etc. If you reach early in the morning, you will find less crowd to enjoy the fort.

Experience at Fort:

When I reach fort, it has numerous places to visit like wind-point, Lokamanya Tilak residence. I really like wind point where I enjoyed a lot. Wind blow is so I high that you barely manage to open your eyes. Still I captured the video to show wind flow at the wind-point. Then I enjoyed little time to capture some moments on phone camera. Take look of the photos at The Sinhgad.

Snack-center at Sinhgad

Till I finish the visit to Sinhgad fort, I reached an snack-center to have onion pakoda and curd followed by tea. It was almost 10.30am and fog at the place still giving feeling of early morning.

Returning to Pune:

I stepped down toward parking area, and started return journey. Meanwhile I found crowd started gathering at fort as parking lot was full with vehicles. A youth shouting slogans about Great Maratha Warrior Shivaji Maharaj bringing live spirit at the place. I return home with another break on my way to home at Khadakwasal water dam which was again another most visited place by Punekar during this season.

Till this post goes live, you may have come across video The Sinhgad showing glimpse of the fort.

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