Saturday, December 26, 2009

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.

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