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This Saturday I started the day way tooearly after the party of last night. I had too much to drink last night and energy was low. Somehow I was able to visit 4 landmarks again.

Santosh said we should go to a fort that is about 40km from Pune and so we did. On the way we passed a temple and of course I had to take a look. It wasn’t as big as previous ones.

After this we drove on to Purandher fort, the primary target. Whilst driving I already saw a big mountain again and was afraid that we had a long clime ahead. Fortunately the road was not closed and a lot of the climbing was done by car. The road was in a bad sate but the 4 wheel drive had no difficulty driving us near the top. After that it was only 15 minutes of climbing to reach the fort.

Here you see the swirling road we drove on

As with the previous fort we had a magnificent view, the pictures don’t do it justice. The main difference was that there were no big cities visible, mainly agricultural fields. The fort was in a bad shape, covered by a lot of plant life. At the highest point there was a Temple which was still in good shape.

Images of the view

Images of the fort (what’s left of it)

An image of the temple

On the way back we stopped at the biggest temple of the region that we were in. This is the Balagi Temple, not to confuse with the Bellagio (that is something totally different). It was a really well maintained temple and people were standing in line to get in. Unfortunately it is not allowed to take pictures from the inside, so I took some from the outside. It was a strange experience since I’m not a believer in any faith and now was participating in a religious ceremony.

The last thing I visited was Jadahav Gadh fort build in 1710 and restored in 2007 in order to make a Hotel of it. They tried to have the least impact possible on the original structure and I think they did a nice job. We first had lunch because consumption was compulsory, which was a good idea since I had not eaten for 7 hours. After lunch there was a tour guide to show us around the fort that gave us more info than I could ever remember. There was also a museum with again a tour guide and he had even more to tell then the nice lady that showed us around the fort. To be honest it was at some times quite boring. By the time we left the museum it was already 6 o’clock and we still had a 45 minute drive to go. After these last two days I was more than happy that Sunday was already scheduled as a day of rest.

Pictures of the fort (in the museum there were no pictures allowed)