Our day 2 plan was to go to Narayan Sarovar which is close 200 Kms from Bhadreshwar. It was also our last day in Kutch with our bus being at 8.30. Technically we should see places and be back at around 6 to finish packing, dinner...
Well we were prepared... started around 8 AM, finished our breakfast, then started for Bhadreshwar. This time we took different route via Mandwi (small town bith picturesque beach) and travelled via barren highway. On the way we saw industrial some of the industrial advancement in Gujarat. We also saw many of those colored lorries... now i know from where they come from..
Narayana Sarovar has a temple for Lord Vishnu. Like those south Indian temples, they had an inner praharam with all avatars of Lord Krishna. Our driver Ali Suggested to finish our lunch with temple prasadam itself as there are no good restaurants on the way. Then we went to Koteswar. A shiva temple on the shores of Gujarat Arabian sea. The sea was very different compared to Bay of Bengal shores. it was silent, had a pale white boundary, i felt as if the boundary was 100 m away unlike in chennai beaches where we feel the boundary is infinite on the sea side. After flurry of photo sessions, we decided to leave to Mandwi. Mandwi beach is like our besant nagar beach. but more silent than ours. It is good place for an evening walk with kids. i had ice gola there, colorful one, it reminds me about my school days...
It was late for our night bus, we reached our lodge around 7 PM, finished packing, it was time to say good bye to Bhadreswar and our friends there... Partha suggested us to have dinner at Green Park in Ghandhi Dham... had dinner boarded the bus towards Barmer in Rajasthan. it was a sleeper class bus. we had prior arrangements for playing cards during the journey. with our back pack already full, it nicely formed pillow kind of arrangement...
I left ghandhi dham with a feeling that i saw places which i havent seen in the past, not even something similar... i started having the feeling could have stayed for more time in Gujarat. well i consoled myself with a hope that since Partha is around, i need to disturb in 2009 and hence another trip....
Kutch blog to be concluded...
2 comments:
Nice raghu. It gives me some perspective on the places which i need to visit in future.
Thanks Mani. thats one of the goal why i wanted to share these experiences...
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