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Trek to Kaldurg Fort Palghar, Visit to Kelwa Beach Fort and Palghar Kelwa Beach

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Kaldurg Fort lies in Palghar District near Mumbai, in the Sahyadri Mountain range of northern Konkan region. It is nearly 7km from Palghar railway station. We visited here in June-2013. The trekkers group includes Harish Patel(me), Devendra Patel, Harshit Joshi, Ankur Srivastwa and Vikas Maharana. Trekking here is budget friendly. Please carry 2 litre water and some snacks with you if you plan to trek here. On a day in last week of June 2013, I motivated some of my office friends for trekking to Kaldurg Fort in Palghar. As this is very near to Mumbai and reaching Palghar by local is easy travel, I tried to lead team of my friends ;) We finalized the trek on Friday and planned about where and when to meet the next morning to go for trek and which passenger outstation train to catch. We 4 boarded a train at Dadar, 2 of our friends joined us at Borivali in the general compartment. After Vasai, the next stoppage was Palghar and we reached as decided. ...

Trekking to Karnala Fort in Karnala Bird Sanctuary near Panvel, Raigad in Maharashra during Monsoon Rains (Thumb Shaped Peak-Pinnacle)

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Hi, Trek to Karnala Fort is very enjoying and beautiful in monsoon and winter seasons. We some friends from office planned to go for this so called Easy Trek. We visited in Monsoon in month of July. Finally 4 of us made it to go for trek as many other declined due to lazyness or some other excuses or reasons. 4 are: Harish Patel(me) and my 3 friends Piyush Arora, Akshay Kokate and Rahul Date. We (Piyush Arora, Akshay Kokate and I) started from Airoli at around 8am after being delayed by rains and lengthened sleep. We caught a local to reach to midway Vashi station from there we took another train to Panvel. Our 4th colleague Rahul Date joined us at Nerul station, to our company in the same coach. Reached Panvel around 9am. We had breakfast outside Panvel station to make our stomach ready for the journey. Good tea inspired us further to start the trek. We waited for a state transport bus for Karnala. In 15 mins, we were able to find and catch the bus. Buses moving t...