Pratyush's log

Getting up at 5 in the morning is not the easiest thing to do especially if you have my habit of waking up at 11 on a daily basis. However such miracles do happen, on occasions similar to today’s: The Matheran trip. I got up at 5.15 and was ready in less than 15 minutes. The Iciness of the morning air was frigidly amazing as it struck me on my face. I can imagine what my sister would be feeling who was driving the activa to the Shivaji Nagar station. We were accompanied by Jayesh and Avatar, two of my sister’s colleagues from DRDO. We took the first local to Karjat and then another to Narel. A toy train is available from Narel to Matheran . But seeing a big huddle for the toy train tickets, we decided to hire a taxi. We reached Matheran in 20 minutes max and there began our ‘trekking’! It wasn’t the usual trekking though, all we had to do was follow the toy train tracks as it curved through the Matheran hills. It wasn’t the best thing to do but we had no choice...We had ...