Summer is nearing now ..... In hottest April & May months ... the trekking scenes is different ... its dry .. rustic ... low on water ... only shades of brown and black rocks .. No more greenery .. No more waterfalls .... Its HOT its Summer When you are heading down to the hottest months in … [Read more...]

Most of you must be busy day night working to the high stress levels and as a yearly work going through a medical examinations ... right ? One of the test done during medical test is the famous Treadmill test, which many of you are being recommended after your ECG goes for a toss !! btw I did it … [Read more...]

Although Ratangad trek is at a long distance from Pune  (~215kms) I wanted to visit the Amruteshwar temple as well as the  ~2000 years old fort, I was so curious to get onto it .. surely it must be historically important location .. and must have been chosen carefully to keep hawks eye on larger … [Read more...]

When my colleague RaPa said that he would join the trek with his family I was not sure due to the fact that the junior most member of the family was three year old cute Radha, but when Team FONA is there Impossible things become Possible :-) our trek leaders Mandar, Manoj and Nikalje, team effort … [Read more...]

Gone those days when Sir.Jim Corbett wrote about Man-Eaters of Kumaon .... now that we are in 21st century where I am writing  about Money-Eaters of Vasota !!! Yes, tigers are not man-eaters now but the forest officers in Vasota are money-eaters !!! Desi daru (liquor) bottle found on … [Read more...]