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Adjusting schedules in 12th standard is not easy for any student. Yet, after so many fights, discussions, lump sums, we convinced our parents. We were a group of 6 people and went up there on 16th July, 2016. We don't usually travel together, but when we do, we make sure that it's memorable. Rajmachi was one of them! It was an "Almost Cancelled" trek, because we initially planned for Peb-Vikatgad (Near Neral), but cancelled it as one of the student lost his life in a landslide just a week before our trek. So obviously, our parents were so worried about us and didn't want us to go. But nothing stands before passion! Against all the odds, we gathered some courage, buckled ourselves up, and went for the trek! I t was once again in the same year, we were set to trek it! We took the very first train at 4.59 AM from Thane station to Karjat. We reached there by 6.30 AM and went to the bridge. We took a TumTum to the base village of Rajmachi fort, Kondivade villag...

Finally, after so many discussions and adjustments, we, a group of 6 college students decided to go on a trek to Lohagad. Lohagad Fort (Downloaded from Google) We went up there in April. It was actually a planned day trek which eventually turned out to be a night trek. We took a train from Thane station to Lonavla station. We reached Lonavla station at 2.00 AM. Half asleep, we all took our backpack and went to Lonavla Bus Depot to have some food and beverages. We came back to the station and there were local rickshaws. We took 2 autos to Malavli station. We reached Malavli station around 3.00 AM. Wondering about what to do next, we sat there for about 20 minutes and concluded to start walking. There's a bridge which leads to Lohagad Village. The village is situated on a mountain, above which the fort is built. We started walking around 3.30 AM. We were a bit scared because THIS WAS NOT THE ACTUAL PLAN. We turned on our torches and started to walk, hoping that torches wil...