The bhataktiatma : Travelogue of a wandering soul

Summer has been particularly hot this year with temperature clicking 40s continuously, that kept us away (thankfully!! )from doing ghat routes or our beloved high endurance treks (injection treks) . I am not particularly fan of these treks however some routes demand high endurance and cannot be done in leisure, Ninand Bartakke came up with one such route in Ahupe Region and as temperature has been on decline in last few days due to pre-monsson showers we agreed to do it. Shidobadaar – Bhairaonathdaar , we had visited pimplegare , village nearest to shidobadaar opening two years back to check the possibility of doing this route , even then none of the villagers believed that this route can be done , they were worried about a huge overhanging boulder and loose rocks which make it extremely risky to do this route but we still wanted to try our luck and promised ourselves that we will be back for it , more than the route , Deorai ( temple garden ) at ahupe was more tantalizing , we h...

Winters in western part of India are pretty non glamorous although in Sahyadri mountains temperatures do drop to a level where we can call it "cold" ,in pune with rising pollution levels the days of cold winter mornings are rare. It has always been my dream to spend a week at a place offering balcony view of Himalayas, a cup of tea and a book in hand ,camera ready to capture ever changing view of snowcapped mountains while snow drizzle outside. A beautiful dream indeed however reality of indian hill stations is something different, the hotels with view are overpriced even if you manage the prices and get ready to realize your dream there would invariably some group realizing their own dream of destroying mountains peace by playing honey singh or even worse Arijit singh songs as loud as they can. Thankfully if you are ready to endure some physical pain you always have an option of a Himalayan trek, we did just that and had our seat booked for  indiahikes  deorital-chan...