On 20th December, three of us left our respective work places to get away from the daily monotony.Dr Praveen, the Ranbaxy Manager, Anshumaan and myself. As, ususal one of us got stuck in the traffic. Our googling led us to believe that the last jetty for Alibaug leaves at 5.30PM, which we later realized is only applicable to government operated ones. 
However, the private/ luxury jettys were leaving till 6.45 PM.
We boarded the 6 PM MALDAR jetty. Ticket was 100 bucks. Nice transport, air conditioned with a snacks shop. It took us around 1 hour to reach Mandwa. Soon we realized that our ticket also includes fare for the bus journey till Alibaug. Another 1 hr. We took an Auto till the beach. There is a nice low budget hotel named Dwarka. The tariff for a 3 bed room would vary between 450-800 depending on the tourist traffic. A restaurent with the same name on the ground floor serves decent veg food. After having a light dinner we headed towards the beach. Liquir here is moderately expensive.
A Beer can should cost you around 75 bucks and rest are priced proportionately. The latest you can get alcohol near the beach is 11.30PM. We packed our bags with some of the good stuff and headed towards the beach. There was a high tide which was slowly but surely heading backwards. With in half an hour, we had access to clean sand banks and peace. We walked to the point till it was walkable. We saw few dogs and jackels and lotsa crabs . We boozed till we realized we would be needing more. We came back to the main road and got some more drinks for us. We lied on the beach and recalled our good old days spent at VKRV hostel,
Delhi University. As the night went along, we also decide to share some real life ghost stories. I dont remember much of that....
We had to change our plans as we could not manage to get up early on that Sunday. We strolled till the beach and realized that the water level hasnot preceded any further and the Alibaug fort is still some 2 kms inside the sea. Tanga riders were setting up to start the day. We inquired and realized that around 10.30AM, the fort gets accessible. We planned to walk till the fort. We came back to our hotel to change into shorts and when we reached the beach,
the water had preceded up to a wopping 0.5 km in a duration of 15 minutes. We started walking towards the fort. The tangas were runnign at a fast speed. The water was only knee deep at all times.
The fort was good. We clicked some really kool pics. After exploring every last corner of the fort, we decided to head towards Kashid, the mini Goa. Time was a constraint, we hired an auto to Kashid and back to Alibaug. 600 bucks in total. There is a birla temple on the way for temple lovers. Kashid was good. Its one of the few beaches in Maharastra with white sand. Crowd was good.
We spent an hour there and got back to Alibaug around 6.30. The last luxury jetty was at 7.30 which was already overbooked. We somehow managed to convince teh clerk at the counter and the bus driver and could manage to get on the jetty finally. We reached Gateway at 8.30. It was the day when Taj was reopened after 26/11 incident. Aparently no tourists are allowed to visit Gateway after 7 PM. So, we had a nice view at Taj which stood strong amist all the fireworks. It felt good to be an Indian standing at Gateway facing the Taj Mahal Hotel........
However, the private/ luxury jettys were leaving till 6.45 PM.We boarded the 6 PM MALDAR jetty. Ticket was 100 bucks. Nice transport, air conditioned with a snacks shop. It took us around 1 hour to reach Mandwa. Soon we realized that our ticket also includes fare for the bus journey till Alibaug. Another 1 hr. We took an Auto till the beach. There is a nice low budget hotel named Dwarka. The tariff for a 3 bed room would vary between 450-800 depending on the tourist traffic. A restaurent with the same name on the ground floor serves decent veg food. After having a light dinner we headed towards the beach. Liquir here is moderately expensive.
A Beer can should cost you around 75 bucks and rest are priced proportionately. The latest you can get alcohol near the beach is 11.30PM. We packed our bags with some of the good stuff and headed towards the beach. There was a high tide which was slowly but surely heading backwards. With in half an hour, we had access to clean sand banks and peace. We walked to the point till it was walkable. We saw few dogs and jackels and lotsa crabs . We boozed till we realized we would be needing more. We came back to the main road and got some more drinks for us. We lied on the beach and recalled our good old days spent at VKRV hostel,
Delhi University. As the night went along, we also decide to share some real life ghost stories. I dont remember much of that....We had to change our plans as we could not manage to get up early on that Sunday. We strolled till the beach and realized that the water level hasnot preceded any further and the Alibaug fort is still some 2 kms inside the sea. Tanga riders were setting up to start the day. We inquired and realized that around 10.30AM, the fort gets accessible. We planned to walk till the fort. We came back to our hotel to change into shorts and when we reached the beach,
the water had preceded up to a wopping 0.5 km in a duration of 15 minutes. We started walking towards the fort. The tangas were runnign at a fast speed. The water was only knee deep at all times.The fort was good. We clicked some really kool pics. After exploring every last corner of the fort, we decided to head towards Kashid, the mini Goa. Time was a constraint, we hired an auto to Kashid and back to Alibaug. 600 bucks in total. There is a birla temple on the way for temple lovers. Kashid was good. Its one of the few beaches in Maharastra with white sand. Crowd was good.
We spent an hour there and got back to Alibaug around 6.30. The last luxury jetty was at 7.30 which was already overbooked. We somehow managed to convince teh clerk at the counter and the bus driver and could manage to get on the jetty finally. We reached Gateway at 8.30. It was the day when Taj was reopened after 26/11 incident. Aparently no tourists are allowed to visit Gateway after 7 PM. So, we had a nice view at Taj which stood strong amist all the fireworks. It felt good to be an Indian standing at Gateway facing the Taj Mahal Hotel........
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cool blog
can u suggst some resorts near Alibaug??
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