Kulang Fort Trek
"Life at its Best, On the Edge of the Mountains"
Kulang Fort- The Highest Climb From Base
Kulang fort (कुलंग गड ) is located in the Igatpuri area of Nashik district, on the western side of the Kalsubai hill range. This fort is adjacent to the Madangad and Alang forts, all of which were constructed to protect the Nashik - Kalyan ancient commercial road.
After Visiting Alang -Madan Fort on Jan 21st & 22nd 2017 , I wanted to go Kulang Fort as it will complete my Trek of " The Mighty Trio Fort Alang Madan Kulang- The Toughest Fort to Reach " There is no dought that Alang -Madan fort is difficult and For Height Phobic its get Worsen, But Kulang is not so difficult one as compared to Alang-Madan Fort
So, i decided to go to Kulang Fort with my Gym Cross fit Member and i have convinced only 4 of them to go with me and decided to go on last weekend of Feb 2017 i.e on 25th &26th .
We were total 5 member to go to the fort, as i have already done Alang Madan we have collected some local guide phone number, So i Called Ganpat Tukaram More at Ambewadi Base Village for arranging the guide to the Kulang fort and for dinner at the fort,
The Day of the Trek :
I have woke up at Morning 5:00 am , and called everybody to getup but most of them are already woke up and so exited that they were unable to sleep the night before trek,
Nikit has taken the car for travelling to Ambewadi and he pick up all of us from the designated location that decided day before the trek. and we started our journey to Kulang Fort at around 6:30 in the morning.
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Wating for Breakfast
Anyway we proceeded further and started ascending to the Kasara Ghat the view of Kasara ghat is awesome and we were already on the Mighty Sahaydri Mountain range, Once we have crossed Ghat section we can see the the Trio Fort Alang -Madan -Kulang on your right side of car window & also we can spot Kalsubai-The Highest peak in Maharashtra. we continue further on NH 3 till Goti Toll Gate,After crossing Toll Gate we have cross the Ghoti town on NH3 (bypass) and took the first right turn exiting NH3 to Shirdi road , we continued further on the shirdi road after travelling for a while we have taken right turn exiting Ghoti -Shirdi Road to Bhanrdhara road the route was awesome from here we can view the mountains on the both side and this way we reached Ambewadi village viewing the Magestic Kalsubai peak throught on our way ,Ambewadi base village is already on height about 850 to 900 m MSL.so the climate was good there.
 After parking our car at village and taken all necessary backpack and distribution of water bottle we started our trek at 10:15 am toward Kulang Fort, from Ambewadi one has to walk about 2 to 3 km to reach the base of the Kulang Fort Trek starting Point , its a long plateau walk from Ambewadi to the base of Kulang fort. on the way we have taken some snaps of the kalsubai and the forts around.  Kalsubai on the extreme left 
On the way to Kulang
After a long walk we started our actual climb towards Kulang , while climbing for Hour and a Half we reached the Kulang plateau which is the last flat ground on Kulang fort except on the top of the fort,we walked about half and hour on the plateau and reached the climb part of the Kulang fort from here it was steep and steep continuously without any flat surface in between and we proceeded further one of my friend Vishwal a.k.a Roy brought Red Bull Energy Drink which really gives us energy that day , it was getting steep and steep and we taken lot of breaks in between and finally we reached the base of rock cut steps and it was around 1:00 pm we took rest on the base of the steps and we have started our lunch as we are very much hungry Roy have have bought chicken salad and we just broke on the chicken salad and finished within a second specially me :) Mahesh Sir A.K.A John he tried to keep me away form the chicken but you know the famous dialogue of the movie OSO "Kehte hain ki ...... Agar kisi cheez ko dil se chaaho to puri kayanat usey tumse milane ki koshish mein lag jaati hai" so no one can keep chicken away from me. and i was too hungry at that time.
After having lunch we took 10 min rest & we further started climbing the step and it was too tiring cause the steps are steep and after having heavy lunch its getting difficult to climb the steps, so we started our photo session that's the only way we could forget our tiredness and we took lots of pic over the steps .and its worth , the view from the step is awesome we can see the the whole range of Alang Madan Kulang and even Kalsubai.
 
And finally we reached the Kulang Fort at 2:00 pm and we first rush to the cave finding the cave empty we conquer the best place in the cave. we taken some rest in the cave for a while and got out of the cave for bathing on the water cisterns we took bath there and explore the fort completely, we visited the the sunset point of the Kulang fort which is a narrow ridge with both side deep valley it was scary but the best location to view the sunset and of course to get best photograph, there was no network on the fort except on the sunset point we got message tone and all of us started calling our dearness person .
we have witnessed best sunset view from Kulang and best view of Chota Kulang from there it was wonderful moments we took lots of photos there.
            After Sunset the wind got chilly and Gustling around, then we had dinner after a photo session and gone to sleep We enjoyed a lot at Kulang fort and this was one of my memorable Trek & must visit place for all the adventure trekkers |
