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Published: April 2nd 2015
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On the Way
Wide empty road- can't imagine in the city. Goa is a known name to Domestic and Overseas travelers. It has one of the finest beaches of India and many old age churches. The carefree and lively atmosphere, mouth watering Sea food delicacies, Casino parlors, Jewellery are some of the attractions.
Generally I do a kind of research when I visit any place. But when I visited Goa for the first time in April 2014, I had nothing to research before the visit. Because I might be the only first time visitor to the place among my known circle. In fact it was just a much awaited trip for my son.
So, to give a bit of excitement to the trip, we decided to drive down. So that we could stop wherever we wanted, could eat at our choice of eatery and could leisurely spend time on the roadside.
We started our journey at around 6am in the morning. It took one hour to cross the city including a railway crossing which itself took 30mins to cross.
It is always eye soothing to go out of the city; then only we can enjoy the real beauty of nature.
Bangalore is a city of lakes and
Greenery
Eye soothing view greenery. We can see trees on both sides of the roads many times the top of the trees kissing each other making a complete shade over the busy roads, being having awesome weather throughout the year some trees are always laden with beautiful flowers. But the population, high rise buildings, pollution has shielded the natural beauty.
But, once we crossed the busiest and newly developed part of the city, we could see double storied traditional houses painted with bright yellow, blue and other colors separated by a patch of greenery from the neighboring house. There was breathing space for every house, many has small garden at the front.
As we further moved we could see houses with more open areas, temples. The temple of each state and region is uniquely different in India. In the southern states, the outer wall of the temple building also has different sizes idols built on it.
We stopped for breakfast at a famous south Indian food chain joint. We always prefer to have local cuisine. We were required to cover 12 hours journey hence, had quite heavy breakfast of Idli and Dosa.
Now we were quite out of the city
Masala Dosa
South Indian delicacy and could see small hills, wind mills, power stations at the foothills, long stretch of dry fields. The memories of these natural beauty remains in the heart and mind for long and gives us enthusiasm to go back to our work of daily life and makes our wait sweet for the next venture.
We got out of our car, just to feel the freshness of air and see the beauty. We walked around, clicked photos, looked at the passers by and restarted after 15-20 mins.
By now we had crossed Bangalore and its outskirts; were passing small towns of Karnataka. Though there is a distinct difference between the two, but the small places we crossed looked quite prosperous in its own way of having cemented houses, TV and internet cables, local public transport etc..
We enjoyed every bit of it. Like temple, houses and its colour, local shops ambience, women’s accessories are also uniquely different of every state of India.
We crossed small towns, villages, long stretch of paddy fields, some empty stretches where neither crops nor people were seen, between two villages.
Then we reached to the forest area. It’s a long stretch mixture
Photo frame
Unscheduled halt of good and bad roads. Small habitats are also there but less crowded. It’s the area along the western ghat and the forest is a deciduous one. It was early summer time, some trees have shredded their leaves, some has got new leaves. Altogether it was a beautiful view with a wide range of green shades. The sunlight was peeping through the gaps of trees mainly without the leaves one. We could see upto the depth of the forest through the trunks of the trees. We could see the boards “Drive slowly animals may cross the road,” There could be wild animals deep inside the jungle, might roam around on to the roads but during day time it would have been a rare sight. Still we all live with hope and we kept our hopes on. We had to content ourselves with one fox crossing the road.
Lunch time was approaching and our stomach started growling. We started hunting for the restaurant. Being forest area only with small villages we were not able to locate one though locals were directing us but not satisfying us. 45 minutes passed, no food joint found. We thought of stopping now, the first
Goa
Beach, Sky - sunset and a coconut tree one we find. In between we saw one sweet lime juice seller. We satisfied ourselves with that.
Another 30 minutes gone, nothing was found. We were sure that we have to take lunch only after reaching Goa around 3pm. We diverted ourselves from this search. All of a sudden we saw a small hotel beside a shop. We stopped and ordered for Rice, Roti , Dal and Chicken Curry. It was a smallest joint I would ever had lunch at, but unbelievable taste of the food. Home grind-ed spices by traditional method, no adulteration, no short cut during preparation. As we say " yummy ".The taste still lies on my taste buds. Same day dinner at Taj also could beat it.
We were so happy and satisfied after the lunch that we spent some time roaming around. We were almost reaching to the Goa state. Within an hour we crossed the forest area and reached Goa.
We will love to come back to Goa by this route again and obviously stop for the lunch there.
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Ajay
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