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Sandhan Valley....Dance of the Shadows and Light

“You know the best part of this trek, once you enter there is no way to exit in the middle. You have to complete it”, said one of my friends. He was right. Once you enter the Sandhan Valley, and by the time you realise that you have got yourself in too much of an adventure, you have an option either to turn back and face the same adventure again or hope that the way ahead is less adventurous. That’s Sandhan Valley for you. At the start of 2014, I had decided to trek few trek destinations in the Sahyadris. You can say my ‘to do list’ for the trek season. It had Harishchandra gad, Ajoba and Sandhan. I managed Harishchandra and Ajoba but as far as Sandhan was concerned, I thought it won’t be possible anytime soon as it required expertise support. But as Shahrukh Khan says in the movie Om Shanti Om, Itni shiddat se meine tumhe paane ki koshish ki hai ke har zarre ne mujhe tumse milane ki sazish ki hai I had gone for a trek to Ajoba Hills and when we were returning back,