The camp
A managed jungle camp on the water's edge
Our camp sits beside the Shivsagar backwaters near Bamnoli and Tapola, on
the calmer side of the Koyna reservoir. Tents are pitched, dinner is cooked fresh, and the
evening runs the way a good camp should — a bonfire, music, simple games, and a sky with
actual stars in it. In the morning there is tea and breakfast before you decide how active
the day gets.
It is fully managed end to end. You do not haul gear, hunt for firewood, or organise boats;
you arrive, settle in, and let the evening unfold. That makes it a genuinely good fit for
families and first-time campers, not just hardened trekkers.
Two ways to do it
With the fort trek, or just the lake
If you want the full adventure, the Trek + Camp + Boat trip pairs the
overnight camp with the boat-and-jungle trek up to Vasota Fort — camp first with the trek
the next morning, or trek first with camp that same evening, whichever suits your plan. If
you would rather keep things easy — a lake, a boat ride, a bonfire and a slow checkout —
the Camp + Boating trip skips the fort trek entirely. Same camp, two very
different mornings.
Boating on Shivsagar
The backwaters are the whole point
Shivsagar is the long reservoir behind the Koyna dam, ringed by forested hills and, for
most of the year, glass-calm. The boat ride is both how you reach the trek and an
experience in its own right — early light on the water, hills folding into the distance,
and the kind of quiet that makes the drive out here worth it.
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