Dwarka

This will be a day wise series of the Gujarat Trip planned in the month of December. 
The days will then be merged for the final blog.

Day 4

Dwarka

A comparatively lighter day with not too much planned on the agenda. The day started by 7:30am. We got ready and left for Dwarkadhish temple at 9am. The temple was a 5mins walk from our accommodation. The queue again was quite long and not well managed. Took almost 1.5-2 hours for the darshan.
We then came out in the market , had lunch at a restaurant called Indian Rasoi. Post lunch, was a visit to Gomti ghat located behind the Dwarkadhish temple. It is said to have holy water, hence the visit.
We then got back to our accomodation to rest for a while. Evening was dedicated to the sunset. We started by 4:30pm to walk the 850m to the sunset point. Sunset point is located near Bhadkeshwar Mahadev Temple. It was a beautiful point located on the shore of Arabian sea. The water is very clean, the shore was dirty though. The sun was slowly going down shining on the water and boats crossing. It was an absolutely scenic view. We returned post the sunset. It was time for an early dinner as the next day had to start early.
We had Dabeli at a cart followed by north and south Indian cuisine at a restaurant. Accomodation being in the market gave the advantage of everything being at walking distance, however was too crowded to take the car anywhere. We walked back to our accomodation and called it a day.

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