Ajoba Parvat is located at 110kms from Mumbai so it will take you around 3 hours to reach the base village 'Dehene'. The trek used to start from the village but now the road leads you directly up to the Ashram, I will give more information about the Ashram later in this blog. We started this trek around 4 in the afternoon and reached Dehene by 8pm, it took us 4 hours as we had some food on our way to the base. There is enough parking both for 4 wheeler and 2 wheelers.
The best thing about this trek is that even if you do not have a camp you can still stay here for free in the ashram and make your own food or else carry it. This place has a mandir and a samadhi place of Maharishi Valmiki who wrote the Ramayan also it is a place for worship of gods Luv and Kush. Many people come here to visit the temple, but there is also a trek that leads you to the top of the mountain from behind this temple.
The video of the mandir
The video of the Ashram
Since we had our own tents and carried barbeque to cook chicken ,we cooked our food away from the mandir at the base. By 10pm we had completed our dinner and started to find a nice place to camp. While finding that place we had an encounter with a cow in pitch dark and it lead us to the ashram, we set up our camp there. The view of stars is blocked from the ashram but it can be seen clearly from the place where we had our barbeque, still by the time we had entered our camps it was so cold that we dropped the stargazing plan and instead started looking them on my phone.
We started our trek in the morning around 8, did not have any sleep as we were playing cards till 4 am and then it was too cold to sleep. This trek is a simple trek but very tiring as the path is steep upwards from the beginning. Until you reach the stairs the path is very slippery, carry enough water and take breaks as you start to loose energy. After trekking for more than an hour you will reach the stairs section from where the top is only 10% away.
The view from top is so good and as we started this trek early there was no one else up here. We sat there in the shade had some chips and clicked some amazing photos . But be careful as the road to the top has a patch where you need to slowly cross a water reservoir, go very slowly.
The video of the end section of the fort.
We retuned to the base and were exhausted as the road is too steep and slippery, but to our rescue there was a Snaan Kund near the ashram where you can have a nice bath, the water is too cold but it is worth it after completing this trek Do visit the Snaan Kund.
Here is the gpx file which will guide you even if the internet is not working, open it with the Osmand app
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