Shivneri Fort, Junnar, Maharashtra

I'm back with a post on my latest hiking, after a very long time. This was to Shivneri Fort, near Pune. The trek was organized by the TRDDC trek club, ie folks from work.
- Started from TRDDC, Pune at 7:30am (though it was planned for 6:30am).
- Stopped for breakfast at Manchar at around 9:30am. (Upma breakfast. Others had Kanta poha, Chole poori, Sheera).
- Continued journey after breakfast and reached the bottom of the fort (not the main entrance) by 11:30am, looked for a route up (asked some locals to find the route), and started climbing.


- Reached the top by 12:30pm. Though it was a short climb, it was pretty taxing due to the steep incline. We rested for a while in a cave on the way up. There was a portion of the climb where there were steps cut on the steep rockface and ropes fixed for holding to, while climbing up.

- Walked around the fort, had sandwiches lunch.
- Came back through the normal fort entry route passing all the gates.
- Took our bus back from the main entrance.
- Reached back TRDDC by 6:20pm.