Mordhan Fort( Maharashtra Trek Points)
Monsoon finally kicked in Mumbai, and it was time for some creatures to come out of hole, these creatures are known as Trekkers.Trekking is one of the ways to enjoy in rainy season and now-a-days it has become quiet a trend to go for treks.
So, i thought of writing about experience of Mordhan, one of the trek spots any one can visit. MORDHAN is also known as Mora cha Dongar (meaning ‘Mountain of peacocks’) lies in the Igatpuri region of the Sahyadris.
Trek Spot: Mordhan Fort
Height : 3400 ft Approx
Grade:Medium
District: Nashik (Kasara-Igatpuri)
HISTORY
All these Forts have history, about mordhan localites say Gods used to reside on the terrain of Second Mountain of Mordhan Fort. Also Pandavas during Mahabharata Yug were supposed to build a cave(Pandav Leni) and temple there in one night on mountain terrain but were unable to do and currently it is located in Gomai River around 6 kilometers north of Shahada, Unfortunately that night the hen clucked at 3.00 am. Clucking of a hen is normally the indication of daybreak. Hence the Pandavas made a move from Mordhan before the daybreak. They further marched towards Nashik and created the Pandavleni there. Some of the remants are still present on the terrain of Mordhan Fort. People who have already visited the Pandavleni in Nashik can easily make out the similarity.
Ways To Reach
As we were almost bunch of 20–22 friends travelling from Mumbai,We boarded local towards Kasara Station, where in two jeeps where booked by us to travel upto base village (Khairgaon). We reached kasara by 3:00 am from local starting at CST at 12:15am , from there in Jeep it took us around 1 hr to reach base village.These Jeep Driver don’t have much customers so we have to book jeeps for whole day, Costing of Jeep was around Rs.2800 each.
Other ways to reach base village:
1) By road:- 128 kms from Mumbai on the Mumbai-Nashik highway is Ghoti village. 4 kms from Ghoti On the Ghoti-Sinnar route there is a village named Devle from where a road to the right takes us to the base village at 2 kms.
2) By Railway:-
A) Mumbai-Bhusaval passenger train (51153 Down /51154 Up) departing from Mumbai at 5.21 am (Thane- 5.51am, Kalyan — 6.20am ) reaches Ghoti at 10.00 am. Autorickshaws are available from Ghoti bus stand to reach base village Khairgaon. For the return journey one can board the same train from Ghoti at 2 pm.
B) Reach Kasara on the Mumbai-Kasara local railway route and then reach Ghoti by a taxi or bus from Kasara. Auto rickshaws are available from Ghoti bus stand to reach the base village.
Trek Starts:
This is where trek starts, you can start climbling from this point, villagers can guide you to start from this location, even some villagers are ready to accompany you with some minimal charges. There is a school where all childrens of village come to study and also there is lake where to sit and relax a bit .
It took almost 2–3 hrs for us to reach top of mordhan, although for villagers its around 40 mins to reach there.
reaching top after tiring climb the scenic beauty was icing on the cake.
after waiting of almost an hour at the top we finally decided to move down and to your surprise it took us just 1 hr to come down from mordhan.
after whole trek it was time to fill our stomach with some delicious food, It was provided by a family will some minimal charges. We had lunch in one of school premises.
From here we were going back to Kasara station for mumbai local even after this journey none of us were feeling tired and were ready for our next trip.
