Ganapati Bappa Morya. It was refreshing short trip to Ganapatipule. One can cover it in two days but we took Friday off and planned bit relaxed trip from Mumbai.
It is must visit place, it has lot of things to offer.
Why to visit?
1. Beautiful Divine Ganesh temple located at Sea shore
2. Serene white sand beaches
3. Spectacular views
4. Sea food
Train is the shortest way to reach Ganapatipule. There are many trains available for Ratnagiri which is nearest station for Ganapatipule. It is located 30km from Ratnagiri.
We took Tejas express at 6.30am on Friday morning. We reached Ratnagiri at 11am.
There are public buses available for Ganapatipule. You can also opt for direct Auto.
Prachin Konkan is life size museum set in a big campus depicting life of konkan 500 years back. Guided tour in the the museum takes you through various aspects of life in konkan like social, economic, cultural and religious background. Ticket price is 40rs and timings are 8.30 to 6.
This is very long tour and one can get tired. It took almost 2 hours to explore all places.
There is Magic Garden beside this, but we skipped it.
After having lunch we came back to resort to take rest.
In the evening we decided to take long bike ride to Aare Ware beach. This road is so awesome for bike ride, scenic views, coconut trees, sea view on one side, small villages, mountains.
This is very long beach, you need to walk after parking your vehicle.
Ratnagiri is all together another tourist destination. You can also cover few places in Ratnagiri like forts, beaches, backwaters.
We only planned lunch at our favourite place in Ratnagiri, Hotel Matsyam
Every Sea food lover must visit this place. It will never disappoint you. Hotel is located at Aasmant heights, Airport Road. We took Auto from Railway station for Mastyam hotel. It took 5 mins to reach hotel.
After lunch we took another Auto to reach our resort which is located between Aare Ware and Ganapatipule.
Lovely road, full of sceneries. We stopped at Aare Ware. White sand, clean water, greenery, no crowd.
These twin beaches, known as Aare-Ware were formed due to the corner of the mountain that submerged in the sea.
Ideal way to enjoy this scene is to sit and enjoy it's tranquility.
We were searching for beach front resorts. We came across this resort name from one of blog. This is not listed on major travel booking sites, so we did telephonic booking.
Pictures of this property were so attractive, we immediately booked it without giving second thought.
What a lovely resort, located right beside another secluded beach Kajirbati.
Resort is run by family. It has villa based accommodation with all facilities including AC.
We booked small villa which has porch with coffee table and off course sea view. All villas are sea facing. Property has small restaurant which offers local authentic food, Also you can enjoy swimming pool.
This beach was right in front of our resort. Serene, clean, less crowded, long beach. We went there at around 5pm for spectacular sunset.
This beach doesn't have beach activities but there are food stalls along roadside.
You can grab tea, Vadapav and chill on the beach.
It has Suru trees area which is very long. You can have great photosession. One of group was shooting couple singing video with sunset in the background.
It was really nice evening, with sound of waves, music and sunset.
After coming back to resort we had decided to have tea and snacks at Resort restaurant. We also gave order for our dinner as they take advance order for food.
Now it was total dark out and prominent sound of sea waves. Peaceful evening with cup of tea and sea breeze.
We had delicious homely food. They also provide room service but we had decided to have dinner at restaurant
I must say it was unique experience at this sea side resort. Wave sound in the night and cold breeze from the window everything was so perfect for leisure vacation.
We got up early to witness beautiful sunrise. We started our day with morning walk.
After having breakfast at hotel, we started our journey towards Ganapatipule. It took approx 15 mins to reach Ganapatipule Ganesh Temple. Resort arranged Auto for us on request.
We borrowed bike for two days from our friend at Ganapatipule which added ease to our entire travel.
We covered all places on bike and it added more fun to entire vacation
We started our day with Ganapati Bappa's blessings.
Temple situated beside beautiful beach.
Temple is Swayambhu, The 400 year old Ganpati idol at Ganpatipule is said to have sprung up from the earth. The temple is situated right on the beach at the base of a hill and devotes and pilgrims walk around the hill (1 km pradakshina) as a mark of respect.
Temple is very beautiful, devine and spiritual.
We had small night ride to Ganapatipule, which is not recommended as it's too dark to ride.
We had a good breakfast at resort and started our day with Ganapati Bappa's blessings. We re visited temple. There are lot of places like Malgund, Kavi Kesavsut Smarak, lighthouse, Jaigad fort which we failed to visit in this trip. We couldn't
get confirmed ticket for our return journey booking so last minute we booked afternoon train. This made us to cancel above mentioned places.
So we decided to ride and explore nearby places
With lot of unforgettable memories, we started our return journey.
