Now in the morning of 21st June, I suddenly had this idea of visiting the nearest mountain from my city. Surprisingly this was my first time despite staying so close for so many years. Its just about 50 KMs from my residence so I left at 9.40 in the morning & travelled to Pavagadh in shared taxi. Shared vehicles take tightly packed people to the Machi haveli - the place at about 500 metre height - from where you can go ahead in a rope way or test your physical fitness by climbing approximately 2000 steps. Having no prior experience of hill climbing, I decided to try my luck at stairs & began the long walk to the temple of goddess Mahakali. But just in half hour of the upward journey, I knew its going to be quite a hard work to reach the top. It was like achieving the targeted score in 100 overs in a 50 over match when I reached almost there in 2 hours!! Almost there means I left the journey 250 stairs away from the temple which was the right thing to do actually as this was not a religious tour.
Getting down was much easier as expected & I enjoyed my afternoon tea after about 45 minutes walk down to the vehicle stop at Machi haveli.
Not much entertaining day but still I made it count with a completely new experience.
Getting down was much easier as expected & I enjoyed my afternoon tea after about 45 minutes walk down to the vehicle stop at Machi haveli.
Not much entertaining day but still I made it count with a completely new experience.
