Reena very enthusiastically flags of the journey with auspicious considered coconut breaking ritual
Just before embarking on our trip
Me Makad-Chale karat aahe Bedse caves madhye
Reached the arch..now click!!!
Arey Baghtos kaay Khalun tu? War ye...
The Tikona Entrance
View atop Tikona
Tikona Buruj
Another view of Buruj
Nacho re Nacho
Tikona from Tikona-Peth village
The muddy cart track
Tikona from Tikona Peth
Farming and the Farmers..picturesque
Nacho..Chattri and the almighty
Only almighty...NAcho kuthe gela?
Pawna backwaters..as seen fromTikona
A hutment on Tikona
Drip..
Tikona..cave and the water tank
Tikona cave
Top of Tikona fort...see the fort walls and bastion (buruj) carefylly
Buruj on Tikona fort
Pawna dam expanse..huge see the proximity of the shore with the village and the road
Tikona Peth village and Pawna dam from Tikona fort
Landscape..
Through the grass
Leafy leafy
Tikona's imposing bastion
The trail
Oh..Nacho again
Tree trunk..a different view
Entrance...
Arey he kaay?
Entrance..another one
The fort wall..dilapilated as seen from top
A Mahadev temple on top..beautiful Shiv-ling adds up to the calm ambience
Tree roots...growing in the fort walls
Roots... still deeper
Steps...going dwon or ascending..sanga baghu..
Same trivia..
A water tank atop Tikona fort
Sammelan atop Tikona fort
A beautiful scene..pawna backwaters in the backdrop and murky skies provides a visual treat..
Fractals.
Atop...
Sagle basa bara ata..
A group pic..me kuthe aahe?
Shivlinga and Nandi atop Tikona
Dilapilated fort walls
Arey kaay photo kadhtoy?
Darwaja ki Khidki?
Patapat utra baghu...beware ..don't slip though!!!
A structure....
Time pass..
Layout...buruj and fort walls
Another set of caves on top.. not many people visited these ones...
Harish and Hemant
Bamboo lagli aahe...
Forty walls and Entrance
Steps...
Mandar...
Another one...
Structures atop... fort walls..
Parat steps..kiti wela?
Towering heights...
Scene hai re..
Stone ... not just any...
Tank and caves at Tikona
Tikona on descent..entrance
Bedse hill
Farms..lush green..
Bedse hill ....
Hemant and Harsih carefully negotiating the steps atop Tikona
Pose nako deoos..
Utar patkan..
Waterfall on Bedse hill
Steps leaing upto Bedse caves
Steps..total flight of 447 steps lead to the caves
Some of those 447 steps
Trickling down...
Few more steps
From Bedse hill
Steps re steps..kadhi samptil..??
Ajun nahi sample...
Aah...caves disle...
Chann aahet faar caves..
Sundar aahet..
One in the corner...
The one..where we had our food..
An open yard in the front..
Trickle..
Open yard...
Central cave...one with the Stupa..
Anu..picture of concentration..
Hemant..through the slit...
Sagle Khadad aahe...me nahi..me tar photo kadhtoy..
He ek..Mothi Khadad...
To SK..kasa khatoy bagha..
Ani ha Shashank ani SK...
Ha ajun ek...
Sameer tar.chayla..
Arey bass ata...
Thambatch nahi...
Arey neet bas..mandi ghalun...
To bagha... kasa chadtoy...
Intricate carvings..
Intricate carvings..beautiful..sculpting
Chadla ekdacha...
Stupa in the central cave...
Me kasa basa var chadlo baba... ata utaru kasa?
..Intricate carvings..beautiful..sculpting
Waterfall
SK in waterfall
Pillars..
