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Published: June 25th 2012
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We decided to go for a vacation tour on June 2012. Our children were interested to visit some new places. We searched the blog post about Goa. Under the blog post, Goa was described beautifully. So we decided to head over to Goa. Goa is located 950Kms from Kancheepuram. We left our home at 4.45 AM on 17.06.12. We had our breakfast at 7.50 AM (A2B Restaurant, in between Krishnagiri and Hosur). After 45 minutes break, we continued our journy and reached Bangalore NICE road at 9.45 AM. On blog post, we found two different routes from Bangalore to Goa. The first route leads to Goa via Thumkur, Haveri and Sirsi, the second route leads via Thumkur, shimioga, Jog falls and Kumta. We decided to choose the second route, as we had planned to visit Jog falls which is India's the second highest plunge falls. On the way to Jog falls we had our unpalatable lunch at Tiptur at 12.45 PM. We continued our journey and reached Jog falls at 6.30 PM.
Experience at jog falls: After we reached the jog falls, we had some discomfort in enjoying the pleasant environment because heavy rainfall. Out of enthusiasm, we ran
out in the heavy rainfall and we were not aware of the great disappointment. Due to the clouds, we were not able to enjoy the clear view of falls. We decided to take some photos and quit the place. Before leaving the place, we had a break to refresh on the nearby restaurant. After our refreshment, surprisingly we found the clear view of falls. Immediately we ran to see the cloudless falls and we were very glad to see the falls after many disturbances. We took many photos with our children and we spent the pleasant evening there. Then we started our journey to Goa without knowing the inconvenience.
Thrilling dark night forest travel: On the way to Goa, when we were crossing Billigi at 9.00Pm,we found some people from the forest department. They informed us that they had blocked the way for the safety of night travellers and asked us to take diversion towards Sirsi which is 60 Kms away from that place. We were in the midst of dark and thick forest. Because of heavy rainfall, we had not found anyone on the road. Fortunately, we had our mobile with GPS facility attached in our car.
We started to move slowly with the help of GPS. An hour later, we found two people on a car. We decided to seek help from those people to find a resort for night stay. When we enquired them, they advised us not to stay there and directed to move towards Sirsi which is 60kms from the place. After 2 hours of long journey we reached Sirsi at 11PM. There we found a small lodge and had stayed there in order to stop night travel in the dark forest.
Pleasant stay at Goa: Next day morning, we felt fresh to take 400 Kms of journey to Goa. Actually, we planned to reach Goa before1.00 PM. We started our journey at 7.00AM from Sirsi. When we were reaching Kumta, we found Kamat restaurant and we had a delicious breakfast. We started our journey after the break and reached Panaji at 2.30 PM. When we were reaching Panaji our children liked to stay in a beach resort. After a long search, we found a resort named as O PESCADOR Beach Resort at Dona Paula with a room rent of Rs.2000 + tax per night. We kept our luggage and went
for shopping on the evening itself.
On 19.6.12, we had a pleasant morning with our children on the resort swimming pool. After that we moved for site seeing. First, we went for Miramer beach, here, our children played and enjoyed the beach park. Then, we visited Aguda Fort which is 20 Kms away from the beach. We found many people were enjoying the site of the fort. Here we went for shopping. At last we tried to see St. Francis Xavier Church which is the oldest church at old Goa. When we reached there, we found that the church was locked and we had not known the opening time of the church. In order to know that we enquired some people who were on the nearby bus stand. Unfortunately, we were not able understand their language and we missed the opportunity. Finally we decided to get back to our staying place, on the way to the resort, we found Basilica of Bom Jesus at old Goa. There I got down and bought a Rosary for my niece as gift who is going to appear for the 12
th standard examination.
According to our plan, we
started our journey towards Mangalore at 12.00 PM. On the way to Mangalore, we enjoyed many beautiful sceneries and had reached Mangalore at 10.00 PM. As we had already searched the Kumar International restaurant through Internet, we didn’t strain much to find the place to stay. We booked an AC room with a cost of Rs.1030. Next day morning at 10.00 AM we went for the shopping mall City Center Plaza which is Asia’s second largest shopping mall. We purchased some apparel for our children and started to move slowly towards Kanchipuram through Bangalore. We reached our home at 2.00 AM. Of course, the journey was too tiresome but we didn’t feel because of our children. It was a pleasant memorable and remarkable trip.
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