" Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Western Ghats are a mountain range in India. They run along the western edge of the Deccan Plateau, and separate the plateau from a narrow coastal plain along the Arabian Sea. The range starts south of the Tapti River near the border of Gujarat and Maharashtra, and runs approximately 1600 km through the states of Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, to Cape Comorin or Kanyakumari, the southern tip of the Indian peninsula. The average elevation is around 900 meters. This range is known as the Sahyadri mountains in Maharashtra and Karnataka and Malabar region in Kerala.

Sahyadri is known for it's fascinating and amazing spectacle of the nature, from the magical deep valleys to the cloud catching peaks, from the spectacular waterfalls to the fascinating hill stations, from mystical evergreen forests to the huge open table lands and hard rocky patches, Sahyadri shows the great diversity within it.

Located in the serene mountain range of Western Ghats, Sahyadri not only has the geographical but also the historical importance. Sahyadri provides the evidence for battles of Maratha Kingdom, the greatest history of its time and glorify the foundation of today's Maharashtra by the great Maratha warrior Chhatrapati Shivaji. There are around 300 forts in the Sahyadri range. Many forts are still of difficult access, perched on top of precipitous hills even 2,000 feet above the surrounding country. Yet, have not lost the forbidding aspect of military strongholds, still apparently impregnable.

From the ages Sahyaadri have power over mansoon affecting the life of people in the region. Years after years the Sahyaadris has put up with hard rains & agonizing heat on its bare heads still standing prominently even today. This splendid almighty is geographically divided in to four main expances,