One of the recently attempted trek to Fort Sudhagadh. Near Pune. Perfect location and fantastic route. Unfortunately we could not beyond a point. The point shown above. There is an interesting story about it. We started our trek little late and reached the base of the fort pretty much at time when nobody wants to climb. Yes, sharp at 12 o'clock. Without wasting any further time, we started climbing. It was not a difficult climb to begin with. But with a big gap in trekking, even simple climbs become difficult. Anyway, we kept climbing. After almost one hour of climb, we finally found a tree which was giving a good shade. So, decided to take a halt. Some people lied down, some started clicking around.
Soon, one of us started asking, if anybody is hearing noise as if a truck is coming. Initially we said no, but sooner every body heard the noise. That was interesting, because there is no chance of getting a truck at this height. So, we started checking out, and while started checking the path, we were about to take, it suddenly turned scary. Just at a distance of 100 meters, there was a big bunch of bees, which were coming towards us. It turned the whole path dark. The noise was increasing at a faster rate, that means bees were traveling pretty fast. It was a do or die situation. Within seconds, everybody got up and started running downhill with all the luggage on back. Now it seems difficult to believe, but the distance we took 1 hr to climb up, we covered the same distance with in 10 minutes. By 1.15 p.m. we were back at the place from where we started. It was pointless to try again the uphill task, not knowing the current situation. Another group had just started climbing up and they asked us why we ran down. We told the whole scenario. Soon, they also started contemplating what to do. Not sure, what they did,because we had started our return journey without wasting any time.
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