losttrekker

THE BANDARDARA FIREFLIES CAMPING

The peace that traveling gives is incomparable to any experience.

And my true travelling spirit started with my Camping Trip to Bhandardara, an amazingly planned schedule in the lap of nature with our hard working local supporters.

Bhandardara is a beautiful place yet less known hill station near Mumbai in the sahyadri hill range. Bhandardara is located at an altitude of about 2471 feet above sea-level. The Bhandardara Lake and the Randha falls are major tourist attractions. Our trip started from Kasara Station, every backpacker was asked to catch a 9:42 am Train from CST towards Kasara. We reached our meeting point at 11:51 am (Kasara station).

To reach the campsite we took a local vehicle service, driven by the local supports. It took around 3 and half hours (including halts for lunch break) to reach the base village Bhandardara, and after that we left for the Arthur lake via boat at 4:30.

After arriving the base camp we set ourselves free to explore the view and we started to build our tent one by one and then people were allowed to choose their tent

At 7:30 we started setup bonfire and the we got one surprise of barbecue and we were dancing in the happiness. We started to setup barbecue with locals because many of us were not used to barbecue as it was first time that we were cooking food on barbecue.

All were feeling cold so they stared wearing woolen clothes after 10 mins all gathered around bonfire and leader started some interesting game like antakshri, etc after game the people started telling ghost story everybody was listen to it and then 1 friend came from tent in white shawl on upper body suddenly second friend saw it and he got scared afterward all were going in the tent to slept and me, leader and three friends were talking to each other and watchin g moon light and stars. All of five went to sleep at 1 pm

Another day I woke up at 8 am then we had breakfast and then we went into the water after half hour we change our clothes and started packing bag as we have to leave camp site by 9:30. Then went to the Amriteshwar temple the temple has some unique stone like hero stone (the stone are representing the soldiers of the village who died in the battle field).The temple is 1000 year old.

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