My Trip to Konkan
It was a long weekend, so I decided to take a trip somewhere but where I was not sure. As usual it was a last minute plan and I searched the net and found out a place to visit…I shortlisted Harihareshwar beach which was the closed from Pune and also got some good reviews about it on the internet.
It was a long weekend, so I decided to take a trip somewhere but where I was not sure. As usual it was a last minute plan and I searched the net and found out a place to visit…I shortlisted Harihareshwar beach which was the closed from Pune and also got some good reviews about it on the internet.
We set off in the morning at 8.00 am……I was super excited as I was visiting this part for the first time….the journey was awesome….we crossed across Mulsi river which was a beautiful site, then via mangoan and then to Harihareshwar…..there were many ghats and the roads were round and round….we reached in the afternoon….and to our shock there were no ATM’s/debit cards accepted…and we didn’t have enough cash for 2 days….so we cut the trip short to 1 day coz the nearest ATM was about 60 kms away and we didn’t want to come back all the way….we went to the hariharehwar beach in the evening it was rocky and different from many beaches I had seen…..but the view was again beautiful….it felt great…..
The next morning we left at 8.00 am and set off to the nearest ATM at mangoan and from there as we had 2 more days in hand…. so headed to Murud….which is again a famous beach in Konkan….the way to Murud-via Kolad and Roha…..was good but scary….especially after Roha which is a small town named after the roha river….Murud is 55kms which is completely an isolated route…..the road felt like never ending….there were hardly any humans to see which is a rare site in India….and the roads were too narrow…I would recommend you take this route only if you are in a big group or else its scary…..finally we reached at about 1.30pm and checked in a hotel…again there are no ATM’s in this place…but this time we were prepared but in Murud the debit/credit card is accepted in some hotels…so that’s an relief…..we were planning to go to the beach in the evening but it started raining heavily and the rains didn’t stop for a longtime…finally when it got dark we just took a stroll on the beach and returned to our hotel…..next day as we were leaving we had to check out the beach…so early in the morning we went to the beach…..Murud beach was also very beautiful…and it also had a fort in the middle which is called as Casa fort and about 5 kms from this beach you again have another fort in the sea which is Janjira…..we didn’t have enough time to take a boat and visit the Janjira fort but we just took some pictures and left murud in the afternoon….we didn’t take the Roha route while returning we came via Alibagh-Pen-Khopli express way to pune…..but on the way back we also stopped at Kashid beach….which is also awesome….and the way up to Alibagh is filled with rivers and sea…it’s a joyride……we reached pune finally in the evening…but this 3 day holiday was too good and I definitely plan to visit Konkan again..:)
The next morning we left at 8.00 am and set off to the nearest ATM at mangoan and from there as we had 2 more days in hand…. so headed to Murud….which is again a famous beach in Konkan….the way to Murud-via Kolad and Roha…..was good but scary….especially after Roha which is a small town named after the roha river….Murud is 55kms which is completely an isolated route…..the road felt like never ending….there were hardly any humans to see which is a rare site in India….and the roads were too narrow…I would recommend you take this route only if you are in a big group or else its scary…..finally we reached at about 1.30pm and checked in a hotel…again there are no ATM’s in this place…but this time we were prepared but in Murud the debit/credit card is accepted in some hotels…so that’s an relief…..we were planning to go to the beach in the evening but it started raining heavily and the rains didn’t stop for a longtime…finally when it got dark we just took a stroll on the beach and returned to our hotel…..next day as we were leaving we had to check out the beach…so early in the morning we went to the beach…..Murud beach was also very beautiful…and it also had a fort in the middle which is called as Casa fort and about 5 kms from this beach you again have another fort in the sea which is Janjira…..we didn’t have enough time to take a boat and visit the Janjira fort but we just took some pictures and left murud in the afternoon….we didn’t take the Roha route while returning we came via Alibagh-Pen-Khopli express way to pune…..but on the way back we also stopped at Kashid beach….which is also awesome….and the way up to Alibagh is filled with rivers and sea…it’s a joyride……we reached pune finally in the evening…but this 3 day holiday was too good and I definitely plan to visit Konkan again..:)
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