Next morning we had to wake up early but we woke up at around 9:30 AM and started packing up as we had to leave for
Sinhgad Fort.
Sinhgad Fort was more 50
KMs from
Dehu Road. We checked out from lodge and took our bicycles for service. We had done oiling on chains, paddles, handles, and air in tires, 50 bucks, very expensive. As if the cycle repairing guy knew that we would not negotiate. After getting our bicycles serviced we wanted to sit for our breakfast. It is already 12 Noon by now.
Nardev asked us to take TD of our respective bicycles.
Nandkishor Asked, “what is TD?” TD means test drive. (silent and hidden joke only few of you would understand and would smile). We sat in a nearby restaurant and had
Onion Uttapmam, Vada Sambhar, chocolate and tea. We had to keep ourselves energized as today’s day was more challenging.
A perfect balance of healthy food is must. We started cycling crossed
Dehu Road, approached
Chinchwad, Pimpari, and finally reached
Pune. I must say roads are really good inside the city. Did not experience any traffic problem, hardly could see any pothole on main road inside the city. People say
Pune is hub of educated and professional people. The Marathi people of
Pune are united and they don’t let administration to exploit them. I am not sure but looking at the cleanliness, road conditions, greenery, drainage system it sounded to be true. But there is something good in the city which is very different. We halted in middle of the city to have
Mausambi juice and picked up apples. That was kind of lunch for all of us. “An apple a day keeps the doctor way” really sounded convincing. After having juice and apples we all were energized and started cycling. We are crossing
Pune City and approaching
Nanded, Dalve Wadi and
Khadakvasla Dam. We wanted to stop for some time to take photographs however time didn't permit us to do so.
Khadakvasla Dam and
Khadakvasla lake side was really very beautiful and now I regret that we should have stopped for a photo session. We are on
Sinhagad Road and beside us we have Military area which has MILIT Combat Vehicle Division, Military Institute of Technology, MES etc. On this way we saw a massive historic fighter tank.
Nardev stopped there to pose and take a pic. But
Nandkishor refused to take click his pic and I also motivated
Nandkishor not to take his
Nardev’s pic. It was just to tease
Nardev. We knew that we have to take pic of this tank and all of us would pose, only thing was while returning. Reached
Sinhagad by evening 6 PM and covered almost 45
KMs by evening 6 PM. After reaching
Sinhagad we had to climb up to the fort. We had two options. First one was to take our bicycles with us and cover 9
KMs up hill to the
Sinhagad Fort. Second one was to do cycling for 3 to 4 Kms and park our bicycle at the end of the road and track up on foots. We chose the later one. It was all gloomy day and we did not make out the time. At 6:30 we reached the dead end of the road. There was a small village at the valley.
Now time to eat something. Again the word starving, we were starving like anything. One thing we took care of was the diet, we made sure that we take our carbohydrates on regular intervals. Because the way we were cycling and the distance which we were covering, everything we ate was getting digested in couple of minutes. This is one of the common thing which all of us experienced. Sat in a small
Dhaba, after locking our bicycles. We have to say good bye to our bicycles now. From here we had to track up on this hill. We had to reach the summit to be in the Fort,
“Sinhagad Fort”. We all were physically tired but mentally excited. We had,
missal paav and
omlet paav. 3 Plates of
missal paav and 2 double
omlet paav, and 6
paavs etc. This should ideally cost you Rs. 120 or maximum Rs 150. This
Dhaba guy charged us Rs 273 which was far expensive, very very expensive. I don’t know why they do that.
Nardev was expecting some discount and tried to negotiate here as well. The owner of that
Dhaba had all beards on his face and his
Gunda type look was very dominant.
Nardev didn't ask for any discount once the Owner said no.
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