The bhataktiatma : Travelogue of a wandering soul

What would you do if you want to explore the true beauty of a region without being heavy on the pocket? , trek , yes that’s the most economical way of visiting untouched natural region and as you are away from artificial luxuries you don’t get to spend much as well. Over the last few years, September has become our long travel month, it’s the month when tourist crowd is less as most of them are looking forward to Diwali vacations, weather is perfect as monsoon is retreating and flowers are blooming, so you get to see best of both seasons. Also it’s the perfect month to stay away from pune while the city is trying its best to increase noise and air pollution via ganesh festival. We had registered for Tarsar-marsar trek with indiahike s but due to continuously worsening situations in Kashmir, indiahikes had to cancel all their Kashmir treks, we were provided with alternate options of Hampta pass, Kuari pass and Pin-bhabha pass , out of these Pin-bhabha caught our attentions and fel

We have been visiting  Tamhini ghat more frequently this monsoon than other places , just 60kms from pune , tamhini offer some great monsoon trails , Andharban arguably most visited and know of them all ( thankfully on social media its the only know trail in tamhini).                   We decided to leave on staturday early morning , Sundays are usually taken by large trekking groups and we wanted to avoid crowd , saturday we expected would be little less crowded. We started at around 5:30AM from pune ,reached pimpri at about 7 , the village has just started to wake up while we got ready for the trek.                     It wasnt raining , hovering clouds had managed to create quite a mystique surroundings   GPS tracking was started, route wasn’t unknown, in fact with hundreds or people turning in every weekend ,route has more of became a highway, but we have made it a ritual to track GPS anyways for future reference. Trail starts from pimpri plateau and crosses throu

Jungles are amazing places , they are like a live movie , a world within another. What makes jungle complete is presence of an top predator. Jungle with tiger is like cherry on top , you can always feel its presence but not always you are lucky to see him. I have been travelling in indian jungles since last 5-10 years , looking for the tiger , we even went to tadoba 2 years back but were then few of those unfortunate souls who dont get to see the tiger even in tadoba. This time its was different though , first sight of a tiger is like a dream come true , however having seen the animal i am now left wanting for more , so anxious to get back to tadoba and see the tiger again and again. Was bit disappointed as even with 300mm lens wasnt able to get good enough photo of the tiger , but something for the later visits.                               "You just dont see the tiger , you feel its aura!!" Just half an hour into the first safari and the first animal we s