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Bhuj - Dholavira

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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 7 Bhuj - Dholavira We started from our accomodation (The Desert Inn) in Bhuj by 7am. Dholavira was 1.5 hours drive. The roads were all good this time. We drove through a beautiful road called the "Road to Heaven". A beautiful road with sea and white sand on both the sides. We stopped to click some pictures by the road side and also to enjoy the beauty of the nature. We then drove towards the "UNESCO world heritage site - Harappan civilization". What a planned city it was. How much of understanding had gone into the construction that was done thousands of years back with whatever limited material was available and no technology, only their inherent techniques. Hats off to the people of that era!! It was an exciting experience.  Post this, we checked in to our accommodation at Dholavira tourism resort. The lunch was kat...

Dwarka

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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...