MIND OF SOUL: Road Trip To the Land of Fish : MALVAN

The Road Less Travelled

Hello everyone...

I do a lot of travelling and most of them exploring places unknown... I have been to every known places and all my travel experince are well documented. This trip though I have done in the month of April this year, would like to share with all of you. I have read most of the traveloques on many sites...but none on konkan...and especially MALVAN... Yes.. MALVAN..*THE LAND OF FISHES*

This trip , as usual , was very much UNplanned... Me, my mom and dad , our car and loads of food...and we set out for a long drive towards Sawantwadi... As we moved on and on... We came across astonishing Sites... Vast areas fully covered by raw mango trees and cashew trees....

The Best part about the villages we came across was the warmth these villagers gave us...as if we were their own...which we hardly come across in huge cities... The greenary , the people , their hospitality made us all fall in love with theses villages...

After a long drive from sawantwadi .... We came across a village called *TULAS* ... A very small village..with hardly few houses... But... the speciality of this village was.... wait.. c it with ur own eyes :

Yes...*TULAS* which is a part of every hindu house.. A variety of them..sculpted very causiously by the people.. Magnificent!!

After a Short halt @TULAS we set out for Vergurla Port... Once upon a time a very active port it was!!

After Vergurla It was the LAND OF FISHES : MALVAN... Malvan, famous for its MALVANI CUISINE which includes the famous MALVANI FISH CURRY....

Pure Malvani Cuisine is found @every corner of the small town.. But Pure vegetarians/... You guyz will have a tough time..as.. there are only 2 Food stations who serve PURE VEG malvani cuisine.

A place worth watchin in Malvan is d Sindhudurg Fort. Sindhudurg fort lies on a low island and about a mile from the Malvan’s shore, this fort is said to be a pride of Maratha glory. Today it contains the houses of few people who are descendent. The main shrine of Shivaji, Palm and footprints of great king also preserved here on a dried lime slab in a tower at the entrance of the fort.
There is nothing much to see in the fort as most of the structure has been destroyed. But the fort itself is

very magnificent architectural structure. We hired a guide for about

Rs100 who gave us all information. There is a temple inside which is dedicated to Shivaij were his sword has been kept. There is also a Ganapati murti made of sand. (Its worth watching), The view from the fort is very good and one can see Tarkarli, Bhogave beach from it’s top.

Here are some of the pix clicked during the road trip. For more information regarding the place, accomodation, places of interests , foor courts and genuine recommedation , you can always drop in your queries in my mail inbox.
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