Type                                            Anjanvel is Hill fort.   

Difficulty level                           Anjanvel fort is easy trek.

Height                                         --

Base village / District / Taluka   Anjanvel / Ratnagiri / Guhagar, Maharashtra, India.

Anjanvel fortification, called Gopalgad, was manufactured by the Bijapur lords in the sixteenth century, reinforced by Shivaji around 1660, [some Persian verses on a level elongated stone give the date 1707 and the Builder's name Sidi Saat.

The verses are: Whoever manufactured another chateau, when he was summoned, did it not have a place with an alternate? God is everlasting and all else subject to death. At the point when the kind ruler, the light of the world, gave the request, the fortress was made, which he couldn't live to see.
Sidi Seat (constructed) the fortification. Composed on the tenth of Zil Hajj, the first year of the rule, Hijri 1119 (A.d. 1707).] And enhanced by his child Sambhaji (1681-89).

In 1699, the fortress was assaulted and caught via Khairat Khan, Habshi of Janjira (1680-1708), who included the lower stronghold, Padkot. [jervis' Konkan, 92.] In 1744 (December), Tulaji Angre Sarkhel took it from the Habshi, and naming it Gopalgad, included the upper stronghold, Balekot.

From him, in 1755, it went to the Peshva, [nairne's Konkan, 92.] and on the Peshva's oust, tumbled to British constrains on the seventeenth May 1818. [nairne's Konkan, 116; Service Record of H.m'sXxist Regiment. (Marine Battalion).]

The fortification remains on a noticeable and summoning point on the south shore of the stream hypnotize a large portion of a mile from Anjanvel. It covers seven sections of land, and is encompassed on three sides by the ocean, and on the fourth by a profound dump now mostly filled.

There is no complete line of outworks, stand out or two secured courses heading down to batteries. The fortress dividers, manufactured of stone and mortar, are extremely solid, around twenty feet high and eight feet thick, with, at some separation from one another, twelve bastions were equipped with gun.
The fortification is still in great condition. South of the stronghold is a profound trenching eighteen feet expansive? There are two entryways, one to the east, and the other to the west.

On either side of the west entryway was a guardroom. The inside of the fortress, once brimming with structures, still has hints of little houses. There are likewise three wells with a copious supply of water. Close to the wells is a building said to have been the store-room, near it, a silo, and at a little separation, the Governor's royal residence.

Time to reach the top

It takes around half hour from the base village of the Anjanvel fort.

Minimum Duration 

1 day.

Best time to visit the fort

Any time you can visit Anjanvel fort.

Water Availability 

No, water is not available on the fort. But package water is available in the base village of the fort.

Accommodation Availability

No, shelter is not available on the Anjanvel fort.

Fortification, Bastion, Entrance, and Temple.

way from Pune to Anjanvel Fort

Pune to Anjanvel By Bus

From Pune there are ST (State Transport) buses / Volvo buses available to Guhagar, which is 240 kms from Pune, it takes 4 hrs 10 min from Pune, From Guhagar there are buses or private transport available to reach Anjanvel fort, which is 11 kms from Guhagar.

Pune to Anjanvel By Train

There are no trains available.

Pune to Anjanvel By Road

Route of Pune toAnjanvel Fort 

Pune – Katraj – Ramnagar – Kikvi – Shirwal – Satara – Umraj – Patan – Chiplun – Guhaghar – Anjanvel fort.

Way from Mumbai to Anjanvel Fort

Mumbai to Anjanvel By Bus

From Mumbai there are trains available to Guhagar, which is 300 kms from Mumbai, it takes5 hrs 33 mins from Mumbai, From Guhagar there are buses or private transport available to reach Anjanvel fort, which is 11 kms from Guhagar.

Mumbai to Anjanvel By Train

There are no trains available.

Mumbai to Anjanvel By Road

Route of Mumbai toAnjanvel Fort 

Mumbai – Khopoli – Pali – Indapur – Mangaon – Mahad – Khed – Chiplun – Guhaghar – Anjanvel fort.

Guhaghar Beach

Sequestered between the Vashishti waterway and Jaigad River Guhagar is residential area on the Konkan coast with a wonderful isolates shoreline. Miles of unblemished white sand shoreline lined with shady Suru trees, an aged post reminiscent of times of yore, worshipped legacy sanctuaries, and mouthwatering ocean depths, this is the thing that Guhagar brings to the table making Guhagar an incredible shoreline occasion end of the line.

Guhagar is a flawless shoreline which has recently begun offering in the traveller guide of famous ends of the line in Maharashtra . Guhagar is the first shoreline among the long extend of Konkan shorelines with white sand valid to its surface not at all like shorelines north of Vashishti waterway.

Guhagar shoreline is a long shoreline and reaches out for just about six kilometres between two hillocks. 

Velneshwar and Hedvi well known for its sanctuaries are two other prevalent goals inside Guhagar taluka simply a couple of kms from Guhagar town. Guhagar has numerous lovely sanctuaries inside the residential community. Vyadeshwar sanctuary found right in the middle of the Guhagar town is the most noticeable sanctuary in Guhagar.

Water Sports and moonlight trips like plane skies, banana rides, guard rides and so forth has been presented in Guhagar. Water Sports is composed in Guhagar all during the time aside from amid storms.