Monsoon season starts around first week of June in Konkan region of Maharashtra. My most favorite season as it takes all heat away from the atmosphere. Dust from Surrounding plant, buildings roads is washed away. Everything appears to be clean and new. Plants are more green. Sahyadri ranges are covered with lush greenery everywhere, cloud cover top of the mountains. These changes in surrounding call for monsoon outings.
This year we planned to go on trek with cousins to Diksal Waterfall with Vranger trekking group. This is adventurous trek comprising of water rappelling at the waterfall.
Saturday, 7th July 2018, morning we caught train at 4:10 to Dadar station from Andheri. We were a group of about 10-12 people including youngest trekker of age 6 yrs old coming from various places from Mumbai. All were excited and geared up. We all gathered at Dadar and boarded train to Kasara. Needless to say fun started the moment then. We reached Bhivpuri station around 8:00 am and met the trekking group. We started trek around 8:30 am after having breakfast and introductory session.
The trek was about 1.5 hrs of walk to reach to waterfall. It was raining heavily. That is what we wanted to trek in rain. We were walking on trails. Wherever we could see we were seeing only greenery. Sahyadri ranges were covered in green and we could see springs everywhere, clouds coming down and covering mountains. We passed many springs on the way. Must to mention the youngest trekker was the best trekker of the group. He was enjoying climbs, jumping in water and super fast. We reached the destination. The trekker gave instructions about how to do rappelling.
As it was raining heavily the waterfall had heavy water flow. The instructors waited till flow was reduced. All the enthusiastic people enjoyed rappelling except me and Sachin as we found it was too adventurous for us. I get scared of heights. So to reach to top of the waterfall itself was conquering my fear. We had food after everyone completed their rappelling and started return back around 5:00pm. Again descending trek was tougher task for me. It was great experience to do it successfully.
This was my third monsoon trek and look forward to do many more.
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