Rohida trek.

Decided to trek to Rohida this Sunday. After trying to enlist maximum people, it turned to be the usual two suspects again… yours truly and Anup.
Rohida, also called Vichitragad, is situated a few kms away from Bhor. We took a ST bus to Bhor from Swargate. The base village to start the trek is Bazaarwadi. It is situated off the Khanapur junction, on the Bhor-Wai road. The buses from Bhor to Bazaarwadi are at 8 am and 11 am. Another option is to take a jeep or van, from just outside Bhor bus stand. But, unless they are full of people, they do not start the journey. So, be prepared to wait for some time..
The jeep we took, stopped suddenly at a shop and started loading cement bags and tiles onto the back. The rear seats were almost full with construction materials. We thought that we would now go non stop. But, the driver kept on picking up passengers en route. At one point of time, I counted 19 people, including the driver, in the jeep, with 5 of them hanging on to dear life, by the side of the vehicle..
There is a small path which starts from near the school and leads up to the fort. You will find some bricks and stacked up boulders on the way up.
The fort has seven bastions covering the whole periphery. We could spot only Kenjalgad in the distance. There are other forts to be seen also, but were not visible owing to smog and cloud cover.
There are a few water tanks on the fort. The one at the entrance has potable water.
We took rest for some time, had our lunch and then came down to the base. Immediately we spotted a van to Bhor. But had to wait for it to fill up.
Were back in Pune by 5 pm.

Photos of the trek can be found here... http://picasaweb.google.com/soumyaksen/RohidaOn13thJan08