The trip to Haji Malang..First let me describe about the Haji Malang..Its a Muslim mosque which is situated on one of the ridge of Saath Pouri mountains...But as its a Holy place for Muslims...so the people refer it has Haji Malang Mountains...
Now lets come down to my story..we were all together four friends who planned to visit the saath paouri mountains. Me, Magesh, Suraj and Micheal...Its all about the first three..we three always look for adventures things..like climbing mountains, discovering forests and backwoods..just a week before we climbed the saath Paouri mountains we have climbed a mountain jus 3 km north to our area...and we felt so excited climbing that we planned to go the top of saath paouri mountain which looks too huge and frightening from that place..and so we planned for one day...and on that day Micheal, we just took him with us...He had no plans nothing...But this Micheal chap just to have fun he sticked with us..and for that he has to bunk his college for that day...
So that day came..We started from our places and by Omni van we reached that place...and after paying initial tickets we started climbing...till dargah we have ladders in other word staircase..in some areas the ladders are evn bent upto 75 degree..and its was too hot out der..so that we spend lots of our money in getting refreshments..then after one and half hour of climbing we reached dargah...after finishing from there we came out and started our way more to the top..as we started there was a board indicating..that the dargah trust will not take responsibility of any damages evn to the life..so we were on our own...from here started the real climbing..the really dangerous path...
Again to climb saath paouri we purchased the tickets..and then by giving a small amount we hired a guide for us...so that we are not lost in that big ridge and he is the only who can help us to climb to the top...there was one more guy who was all alone..so he joined us and we start climbing..initially path was pretty easy just 30-35 degree path but after climbing 100 meters the real path came..the 70-80 degree path and we were with no protection except some sand full of rocks to hold on.. however we continued climbing and reached the first point..here the guy Magesh he got scared and he denied to climb the remaining part of the mountain..we insisted him, forced him but he refused..so from there we three friends Me, Suraj & Micheal continued our climbing with that guy and the guide...
At one point Micheal would have thought that he should have too denied climbing along with Magesh coz the next path was damn scary..the 85 degree path that too on slippery rocks...one mistake and that can be fatal...he was damn scared..the guide and that guy named Vikash reached the top while we were holding Micheal so that he can come up...We saw them up..there were about 100 metre above us and it was like they are standing parallely with us at 100m above height..some how we reached there along with Micheal..From there we saw the view of downmosque and the downvillage...its was nearly 1 km away from that height...uffffffffffffffff....
As i said that it was too hot and humid and that too it was afternoon 1 pm...due to which we all felt shortage of water in our body and felt thirsty..we said this to our guide..Guide took all of us to the one place in that rocky mountain..we thought it might be impossible to get water there..but what we see that there was two water caves..not too big but our guide sa that the water comes here from nowhere coz it was box type cave and like someone has made a blast to make the hole..and everyone know that, we dont find snow in Maharastra mountains..anyways we went inside and drank water and quenched our thirst...
After that we came back to our path..and statred our climbing..the way was as similar to the previous one except that we were on more height, nothing to hold on and we were walking on the edges of the ridge with around 1000ft above the ground...there you must have seen Micheal he was very scared...Evn Suraj was scared at one point but soon he recovered..anyways we continued and reached the rock climbing path...It was like two tall ridges and we were standing on the top of one of them..and we have to reach on another...the gap was around 50m..so we did that by throwing the rope to the other side..made a knot on that side of rope..made it struck to one hard solid rock...then we tied other end to our side of ridge..then one by one we tied ourselves with ropes..and did the rock climbing and we crossed that gap...From there our Guide said that he wont come any more coz he has to also cross other people from that gap who are coming behind us..yes you are right that day we were the first people to reach that top....anyways we four continued our journey from there..similar path like every path i told you before..and after half an hour of climbing we reached the top, The Shaitan Killa..Shaitan Killa it was name given by the muslim people as they say once the Shaitan(The Devil) use to stay here and use to torture people by Killing,Annoying,eating them..So that the Haji Malang Baba came there killed this Shaitan(The Devil) and from that day this Mountain got famous as Haji Malang..Anyways this all story are Mythological...we were damn happy to make it to the top...we saw the view from there..we were almost just beside the peak..and it was around 700 to 800m above the ground..we even felt a bit cool...Then we took some snaps of us there and after one hour we strated climbing downwards...
Climbing down looks easy coz it doesnt take much of energy as what climbing does...evn though it was the same path we climbed up..but as we go down the 70 to 80 degree path it is like as we are climbing down a ladder from the terrace of big tower of 20 to 25 storeys, it feels really scary....and while doing that we lost our balance many times..sometimes the sand slips sometimes the rocks..but anyhow slowly and steadily we make our way to the bottom...after reaching the point where Magesh stopped, we said him the whole excitement of climbing up & down of the mountain and due to which Magesh too got excited and decided to climb... so that once more we all decided to climb..but before that we all came back to the dargah and had our lunch in the hotels besides the path of dargah ladders...
3o'clock was the time when we finished with our lunch and refreshment..And then we again started climbing..but as our stomach was full we tired very soon..and halted after every five minutes of climbing...then we again reached the first point...and this time we found a lots and lots of monkey around there..and if anyone is holding anything in their hands like cameras,mobiles,purses they were snatching that from them..hmmmmm...Magesh was again scared but this time we made him to reach at least that water caves. He was too scared and funny while climbing all the way..And he was too scared that he said to return back..so from there we returned back..and reached the dargah...It was 6 by then..After that the only things was left to come down from the dragah staircase...it took two hours by us to come down to the ground and to the gates..from there we catched omni and returned back to ur home....We reached home and we were exhausted.... but we enjoyed a lot this day.....
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