Thursday, February 02, 2006

The South Maharashtra trip

The eve of republic day found us on the RaniChennama express heading towards Belgaum, which was to be a launching point for a wonderful holiday ahead.
towards Belgaum

Day I: 26th January

On Reaching Belgaum we headed right towards Amboli - A hill station in Maharashtra,
At a distance of 70 kms away from Belgaum.
This would set the tone for the trip ahead, it was to be trip that was far from the cliched Goa and Kerala.
The hillsides and valleys of Amboli along with the great food ('Malvani dishes') compelled us to make an overnight stay.
The highlights of our visit being

'HirenyaKeshi: The Cave Shrine'

'HirenyaKeshi: The Cave Shrine'

'KavaleSaad: Valley point'
'KavaleSaad: Valley point'

'Mahadev Gad: the sunset point'
Sunset point


Sunset point


Day II: 27th January

We took an early morning bus that took us 30 kms down the beautiful Amboli ghats to ‘Sawantwadi’ my native place.

Sawantwadi

We hired a cab to take us across to Malwan District to visit the serene
Lake Dhamapur for a boat ride.
Dhamapur

Dhamapur

From there went to
Fort Sindhudurg, which lies on an island 2 kms into the sea and can be reached only by boat!!
Fort Sindhudurg

Fort Sindhudurg

(So that made it 2 boat rides in a day, one on the lake and one in the Arabian Sea)

Spent the evening watching the sunset from Beach Tarkarli
Tarkarli

Day III: 28th January
Visited

Redi Beach
Redi

Fort Tiracol in Goa
Fort Tiracol

Ferry Across river tiracol
Ferry

And sunset at Tiracol Beach

Sunset @ Tiracol

The best part about the trip most certainly was the peace of the countryside along with its pristine beaches, untouched by commercialization.

Tiracol Beach especially is indeed one of the last untouched and virgin beaches of Goa, its clear waters, beautiful sands and a great sunset made it a perfect climax to a great trip :D

Amboli


Looking forward to more such trips ahead !!

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9 comments:

Seemantini said...

That looks good cos that's only u guys there and it isnt a 'tourist' infected/ infested place.

Such are the places worth spending time on considering the time-crunch we all face.

not anonymous at all said...

The Tiracol Beach sunset picture is breathtaking!

CodeMangler said...

nice pics :)

Neha said...

goa....o how much i wish to be there...!!!! *sigh*

Apoorv Gawde said...

Seemantini ~ so true yaar

Not Anon ~ u must see it to believ it

Pal~ thanks mate

Neha ~ If wishes were horses... (complete it) :P

Wanderlust said...

hey! all the pics look amazing....your native place looks simply beautiful....so that's the reason for no posts for long....yes, i could gauge what fun you had in that trip...hey! beside the exciting ferry ride, did you do trekking as well?....i've gone for trekking just once,when i moved into bangalore and it was a trip i would never forget...it was just "great"....now that you've come back want you to do the tagging thing :-)

M (tread softly upon) said...

came upon your blog from looking up Yeats and chanced on the poem that you have here. In fact that poem is such a favorite of mine that my blog url was derived from it :)
These are beautiful pictures.

Apoorv Gawde said...

Ashmi ~ Thanks Ashmi, I went trekking previous weekend to Dandeli, a post on it coming up :)
your tag, yeah i shall.

M ~ thanks for visiting :)

vagabond.. said...

We have a travel website which is a Maharashtra travel Guide in which we have a page for Tarkarli with lot of information regarding the place including Tarkarli Hotels.

We also have a page for blogs on Tarkarli. Do let us know if you would like to feature your blog in the Tarkarli Blogs page. Please write to puneritraveller at gmail dot com