Twin forts, Lohgad and Visapur, are situated near Malawali station (second last station on Pune-Lonaval track). We went there by bikes via old Pune-Mumbai highway. The condition of most part of the road is sort of pathetic - as there are lots of potholes and since its widening work is in progress, its width is too less.
Anyway, we reached Malawali and started the trek around 1:30pm. There are two routes to go to top of Visapur. One is you start walking towards Lohgad and finally when you reach between the two forts, from where you need to take right turn towards Lohgad, take a left turn and walk for about 1km. At one place, you need to cross a waterfall (dead one if you are not visiting this place in monsoon). From that place, start climbing through the waterfall and you should reach the top in 20-30min. Other way is - start climbing towards Bhaja caves and just before you enter the main gate of the cave, you can see a small room on left side near the stpes. From there start climbing the hill in which Bhaja caves are present. On top of that hill, you should see couple of small houses. From there start walking towards the fort (on right hand side).
This time the route from those houses to the col (or waterfall) had lots of bushes (abt 4/5 ft high), and not many ppl had visited that place after monsoon, the route was completely hidden under those bushes. So, we had to crawl under them. It took sometime to reach the col and then to reach the top of fort.
There is plenty drinkable water on the fort (aah, well - its individual perspective. I will call it drinkable :p). We roamed around and came by from the other route.
In the village, we had already told one villager to prepare meal for us. After the trek (and I guess even if we had not done that trek), the food taste was tooo good. After the meal, we started return journey on bike and came back to home by 7:40pm. Though, the return journey was tougher because of heavy truck traffic on the highway. But we managed to get back home safely :-) .
-Milind
