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Grade : Easy

Highest Altitude : 1200 Feet (366m)

Major Attraction :

🏰⛰️ Sondai Fort is a perfect destination for nature lovers and beginner trekkers, offering a short yet exciting trek through lush greenery 🌿, rock-cut steps 🪨, and breathtaking panoramic views of Morbe Dam 💧, Matheran Hills 🌄, and the surrounding Sahyadri ranges ⛰️. The fort is famous for its scenic sunrise and sunset views 🌅, peaceful atmosphere 😌, ancient rock-carved water cisterns 💦, and the small temple of Goddess Sondai 🙏 located at the summit, making it a popular spot for trekking, photography 📸, and weekend adventures 🚶‍♂️✨.

Meeting Point :

Karjat railway station escalator (on EMU Platfrom 2/3) at 7:43 am (After reaching meeting point, call our trek leader. Contact detail will be provided on the event day)

Key Info :

Trek Duration : 2 hours ascend, 1.5 hour descend
Water Sources : Base Village
Washroom Facilities : No
Technical Climb : No
Base Village : Sondewadi
Nearby City : Karjat
Mode of Transport : Tumtum or Omni from Karjat
Vehicle Travel Distance : 13kms
Vehicle Travel Duration : 30 mins each in both Journey
Batch Size : Minimum 7, Maximum 28 Participants

Tentative Schedule :

Board CSMT-Karjat Fast Local and Get down at Karjat (If you miss the train, you miss the event)

05:46 am : CSMT

05:59 am : Dadar

06:10 am : Ghatkopar

06:25 am : Thane

06:41 am : Dombivali

06:50 am : Kalyan

07:43 am : Karjat

07:45 am : Have Breakfast

08:30 am : Move towards base village

09:30 am : Start the Trek with Short briefing and Introduction

11:30 am : Reach Top and Have Lunch (Bring your own)

01:00 pm : Start Descend

02:30 pm : Reach Base and Move towards Karjat

03:15 pm : Reach Karjat and board 03:26 pm CSMT Fast Local 05:26 pm : Reach CSMT

Cost Inclusions :

Travel from Karjat to Base Village and Return
Breakfast
Entry Fees (if any)
First Aid, Guide and Expertise Charges Only

Things to Carry :

2 Litre of Water
Packed Lunch or Snacks for Lunch
Trekking Shoes (Action Trekking or Coaster CTR Shoes are recomended, Avoid Forclaz/Quechua/Running/Other Sports Shoes for Treks in Maharashtra)
Glucon D or Elecrolyte Powder
Medicine as necessary to you

Overview :

Sondai is an ideal trek for beginner as it involves 1.5-2 hours of ascend and the trail is not tricky or challenging. The view one gets for the limited efforts is amazing. One get to see Morbe Dam, Irshalgad and Matheran range of mountains from the top. In peak monsoon one can also visit Changewadi waterfalls near base.

How do you determine your fitness?

Trekking requires good cardiovascular fitness. One can improve this by going for a run on a regular basis and breathing exercises also helps. Smoking also hampers lung capacity, avoid smoking if you want to improve your cardiovascular health.
Even though trekking requires full body strength but strong lower body helps a great deal. Hamstring, Glute and Calves are main muscles that are put to test on treks to name a few. Gym goers often pay less attention to lower body workouts and hence sometimes struggle on trek.
Some treks have less elevation gain (height gain) but are long treks, those trek require good endurance. Endurance can not be built overnight, it takes a long time and constant active lifestyle.
Just because you take long walks, do yoga or go to the gym does not necessarily mean that you are in good fitness. The type of workout you do and your cardiovascular fitness is what matters on treks.
If you have a Body Mass Index (BMI) of more than 25 then you should only start with Easy treks.

How do we grade our treks ?
Easy: Ideal for first timers but if you are not in good fitness or have a less active lifestyle then select treks which have less than 2 hours of climbing.

Easy Moderate: Ideal for first timers, but requires good endurance as these treks may have longer duration of climb even though terrain may be easy.
Moderate: These trek require good fitness and the terrain can be challenging, like constant climb or tricky patches. These are usually recommended only if you have done a few treks before and have done well on them. Fit and active beginners can also do these treks but we always suggest to start with easy treks.
Moderate-Difficult: These trek are only for trekkers who have done few moderate level treks before and have good fitness and endurance.

Difficult: These treks either have long trekking hours or have technical climb or both. Only suitable for people who trek regularly.

Booking Process:
1. Check details of the event on website.

2. WhatsApp us on 7400174767 for Seats Availability.

3. If seats available then Check Payment Policy and Make Payment to Confirm Seat(s).

4. Send Payment Screenshot on WhatsApp number 7400174767.

5. Share Contact Number of people you registered for the event (in case you booked for more than 1 person).

6. Get added to WhatsApp group 1 day before the Event.

a) You can cancel your booking 2 days prior to the start of the event day and take 80% refund (E.g. For Sunday morning event you can cancel up to Thursday night 11:59 pm, however for events leaving Saturday night you can cancel up to Wednesday night 11:59 pm)

b) If you cancel after that time limit, then you will neither get any refund nor the amount will be adjusted in future events under any circumstances.

c) However, you can always send someone eligible as your replacement. No extra charges or cancellation charges will be levied for the same.

d) Our events are planned assuming normal weather and normal conditions. In case of occurrence of any delayed cancellation of local or express trains, natural calamities, riots, political unrest, outbreak of disease or other such circumstances which are beyond our control, the event may be cancelled, Leaders decision will be final and binding on all participants, under such circumstances, No refund will be provided.

e) Any eligible refund as per above policy will be processed within 3 working days.

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