Travelling

This is the full merged blog of a 13-day road trip from Pune to Gujarat and back. Day wise separate blogs are available in the hyperlinks as this entire could be too lengthy to read. Day 1 Pune - Ahmedabad   We started from our home in Pune at 4:15am for Ahmedabad. The expected drive time was around 13 hours by the map ( excluding breaks). We took the Ravet route to Mumbai which was good. The saying "Mumbai never sleeps" could be sensed when people seemed rushing to their workplaces even before 7am. The roads between Mumbai and Vapi were terrible and took much longer. The roads were under construction and had heavy vehicles all the way. It needed patience and skills to navigate that route. After crossing Vapi , we finally stopped for a break and had lunch. After a filling lunch, we resumed our journey. At Bharuch, we got onto NE4 (National Expressway 4) which is one part of the golden quadrilateral project connecting Mumbai to Delhi. Now this was an enjoyable driv...

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. Th...

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 3 Ahmedabad - Dwarka We started from our accomodation in Ahmedabad around 5:45am towards Dwarka. After driving for around 3.5 hours, we halted for breakfast at the Highway food mall. As it was earlier in the day bigger outlets like McDonalds, Dominos were not operational. However one of the food vendor was serving gujrati breakfast. We ordered fafda, dhokla, bread pakoda, methi pakoda and poha. The tea post outlet served hot and delicious tea, much needed on a cool breezy morning.  We then headed over to Gopi Talab and on the way covered Rukmini ji ka mandir and Gopi Nath ji ka mandir. This was then followed by Beyt Dwarka.  Beyt Dwarka is a small island near the mouth of Gujarat which was accessible only via boats until a few years back. As an alternate , a beautiful bridge has been constructed now called the "Sudarshan br...