Junnarites Trek Diaries: Tikona Trek

Written by Randolph Pereira

It all started on an cold Saturday morning of 5th January 2013 , It was my 4th trek and the first of the new year with a group called the JunnarBoyz which we created about 2 years ago ,this time it was Simon who was a new addition in the group .We where 10 of us (me(Randolph),Preshit,Ambrose,Paulson,Tany, Clinton , Kevin, Kartik , Nitish ,Simon). Most of us met at Dadar to board the 5.51 am Indrayani Express which leaves CST at 5.40 am .All of us boarded the General compartment of the Train Except Clintion who missed the train and Nitish who had to catch the train at kalyan however boarded another train .Both of them then decided to meet us directly at Lonavala station . We continued our journey ,the train was crowded which had become full from CST itself as Indrayani and Intercity are considered as Trains which are usually boarded by people who commute daily between Mumbai and Pune.

Standing the Whole Journey we reached Lonavala at about 8.30 am took tickets for Kamshet in the meanwhile Nitish and Clinton arrived . At about 9.30 am we got an local train to Kamshet ,we reached Kamshet in about 15 mins . we decided to hire an vehicle to TikonaPeth Village ,it takes about 30 mins to reached the village from kamsheet station ,we took the drivers number and told him to come back when we give him a call. we started the trek at about 11.15am ,the first 20 mins were slightly exhausting as some of us where out of action for along time gradually we eased-out we first came across an small cave later on followed by an Hanuman Statue

Then after sometime we reached an other temple and then the last part of the trek which are the steep stairs

with taking a lot of stops for photo sessions and deciding to have our lunch at the half way with natural scenic beauty surrounding us we managed to reach the summit at about 1.30 pm (normally it would take 1 hr 30 min)

After playing cards and some games we started our descent and at about 2.45pm we reached the base and at about 3.30pm ,we got in the jeep which we had told to pick us up and after an while we reached Kamshet station at 5.20 Pm ,we took an local train to lonavala and caught the 6.48 pm Intercity express and with no room to enter the general compartment we all entered the reserved compartments the TC passed by us an number of times but did not check our tickets as he knew the general compartment was over crowded. Some got down at Thane while some of us at Dadar station at about 9.00pm .Altogether it was a easy and an beautiful trek which we all required before our college started.

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