Vizag the City Beautiful with Araku Vally and Burra caves

hi all,
some months back i been to vizag... i must say one of the beautiful city i have been to .. it requires 2 nights and 3 days to cover the vizag and araku valley(usp)...
I booked tickets in Garib Rath, which starts in night so after a comfirtable journey in train , we reached Vizag station... early morning at 7:30 am
here first thing If you are going to stay in Resort in Rishikonda beach(this is what i will recommend as all sight seeing are near by to rishikonda) you have to take a cab .. it cost me 300/- [cry] (sumo ) almost 22 kms from station.Befriend with a cab driver .. otherwise take some contacts number of Travel agents they will definately help you later.
If you are couple better go for yatri nivas at rishikonda beach..(do advance booking)
If you are in a group better stay in sai pria resort at rishikonda beach.. just half KM from Yatri nivas.. good thing about this resort is rates are reasonable approx 1300/-.Very good food and it has swimming pool too..;) and just infront of sea beach..:D
As we were in a group we went for sai pria resort ... after a lovel b'fast went to sea beach , njoyed the splash of waves for almost 3-4 hours ,, came back to resort had a lovely time in swimming pool..
After a heavy lunch we called for a cab.. in Resort's cab are quite costly.. This is where the travels agents will help you..call for local cab for local sight seeing.
After calling cab .. we went to kailash giri.. try to rach this place by 4:00 pm so that pictures will come real beautiful. vizag looks awesome from this hilltop..
after spending 1 hour here..we came down. to beautiful marine drive road.. came all the way to see museaum Pandubi.. must see museum , realy very gud experince..
There are some parks and some local sight seeing , which are O.k but i am not sure i missed out anything important in vizag.. than we came back to resort..had a lovely night in the resort.
Next day early morning we took cab for Araku valley.. and really araku valley in itself is a paradise , the greenary , the coffee garden the hilly view is really gr8 to savour the atmosphere.
Some ppl say witnessing Vally by train is good. if you have hill sickness. better go by train. it goes upto araku. train starts from vizag at 7:00 am everyday and reaches Araku at 11:00 am if iam not wrong. you can take local cab from here.
We went for Burra caves.. [B]Important thing over [/B]here is when you are reaching burra caves. just 1 kms before burra caves there will be lot of road side dhabas.. and cab drivers will stop there .. i did not liked the food over there. go till you reach the destination . just before the entrance of burra caves there is small restaurant of yatri nivas.. this is good restaurant and you will get hygenic food.[happy]
Burra caves are gr8 they are so huge you will be required extra energy to go down.. this was my first time experince of caves.. i have not seen yet Ajanta but no as big as that. but still good to watch out for.
we spent almost 2 hours in the caves and came took the cab and came back to vizag. while going down to vizag it will take 3 hrs we reached vizag station 8:30 pm again took garib rath and reached hyderabad next day morning.
Now some important tip:
Vizag is good in the month of October to January. rest of the month it is too humid to survive.

Bhitarkanika trip in Orissa

Bhitarkanika is famous for crocodile breeding and it has been believed you can witness many crocodiles there. I been to this place in the month of march(bad time to go for wild life tourism) , unfortunately , it was sheer wastage of time. by the time i got to know i was already there.

I started my journey from bhubaneswar in the afternoon took the cab from OTDC. reached chandbali and stayed a night in yatri nivas. Next day early morning took the boat (all boats are private they will charge 1800/- for a boat irrespective of number of people, arrangements will be done by OTDC guys.) it will take 1:45 mins to reach dangamal , place from where you can witness crodolies lyings across the banks of river. (that is wht they say but i did not see single croco).. but crossing mangrove forest in the midst of muddy river was something like watching ANAconda movie. Awesome forest .

Boat wil take you to spt from where you have to walk for 3 kms to check out the place where Usually migratory birds come. I saw many spotted dears. but no birds.

After tiring trekking we went to croc breeding centre. where you can see many crocdiles. fortunately i took hold of baby croco with the assistance of zoo keeper. and this was all i saw in bhitarkanika . some of the lessons learnt for wildlife tourism are :
1) Best time to visist any wildlife tourism is decmber and January.
2) If you want to see croco , try to reach dangamal directly . as reaching chandabali and taking boat will kill your early mroning time.
3) Reach dangamal early in the morning , by 6:00 am . This can be reached by road i think. you can take private cab from bhubananeswar. do not rely on OTDC.
Hope this will help you in some regard.

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