Vikram drove Sally (UK), Helen (Scotland), Laurel (San Diego) and myself up to Sinhagad, the Lion Fort, 24km sw of Pune for the afternoon. It was up a very steep hill where we saw one car get stuck in a pot hole on the way up and on the way down, a school bus loaded with kids took the curve too fast and was teetering off the cliff luckily stopped by a stone wall so all were safe. We later saw a line of all the kids walking down the steep road back into town. It was a very windy and dangerous road with a very dramatic view. Once up there we walked around the perimeter of the entire fort and then had lunch prepared by a family cooking inside one of the huts over an open fire in the fort. We picnic’d on some mats under trees with bajri (flat bread made with millet), a soupy thing made with yellow split peas (delicious), rice, eggplant pickles; onion pickles, pakoras and lassi. Vikram said we were eating a poor man's lunch.
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Linda,
I grew up in Khadakvasla, which you would have passed on the way to Singhad. Hope you had a good time there. History has it that there was a underground route from the Singhad fort to the Bhavani temple (Chhatrapati Shivaji supposedly used it) but we never found it.
Suresh
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