Reaching Harischandragad

After a very hard and tiring climb , all of us successfully and unscratched made to the top of the hill. I thought we were very close. But to my surprise, it took us another 2-3 hours to end our trek. But the trek never ceased to be exiting to say the least.


In fact, it started getting even more exiting. As we climbed a small hill the rain came down so heavily that it felt like they were stones being thrown at us. And the wind that was blowing, don't even ask me! I felt like I was being carried off, with that huge backpack that all you guys have seen in the pics.

I then made a huge goof up. The fog started coming down (we you can say that we were also going up! ;) ), is sometimes fogged up so much that it was even difficult to see 5 meters ahead. There were these little arrow marks that point to the direction of the final point. We reached a point where the fog came down heavily, there were rocks onto my right which were slippery and seemed like there would be no way in that direction. But to my left there was this beautiful trail. I took the trail and kept walking. After walking for almost 15 minutes, the trail was getting darker and darker and we started seeing hood prints and paw prints of animals. Even the branches over the route was closing in. After a point we decided that I had chosen the wrong route and we trekked back.

Now there was three options for us to get out of there. One was to go back the way we came till will meet some team , take the route that we had just taken or wait there till some team catches up. Just then, Jana spotted a team on top of the hill we just crossed. We spoke to them, just then the fog cleared up and the leader of that team showed us the route. Guess what, we had to climb down that rocky patch and cross a small stream and on the other side was this beautiful beaten trail.

Holy cow, what a big Idiot I am. There was rocky patch, covered by fog due to which I can't see what's on the other side and there was this trail with an arrow mark on it saying this is the route and I just could not guess that we had to take the rocky patch. Damn, I went to the wrong school! lol

After walking for little bit more and taking in the scenic beauty, the smell of the soil, the green grass and the beautiful fog all around us we reached our point. Even here we hit a road block(While there was no road to block, I literally hit it. ) We reached an ancient temple like structure and we were sure that we had reached the end point, But the problem in that, we knew there are caves where we had to stay but we could not even seen 5 meters ahead of us. Jana started walking ahead saying that he could see something. I followed him screaming to him to halt and move slowly, when all the while I was telling the guys to watch their step stepped onto a slippery rock and band went down. I hit my left side. My head banged up against the rock and I started bleeding right near my left ear. Welcome to Harischandragad.!